Italian Agile Days - 18 November 2017, Urbino Abbiamo smesso di parlare di Agile. Perché lo diamo per scontato, perché è nel DNA delle aziende, perché è mainstream! Ma continuiamo ad arrabbiarci, a lamentarci che i processi non funzionano e “Sì, da noi facciamo Agile, ma...”. Abbiamo smesso di parlare di Agile. Abbiamo smesso di fare XP. Perché? Racconto principi, valori e anti-pattern. Magari pratiche. Ve lo ricordate XP? É uno dei metodi agili più antichi, prometteva di rendere possibile costruire software che funziona, con costi ragionevoli.

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Agile anymore
Fabio Mora
fabiomora.com
18 November 2017
Urbino
It went mainstream, but...

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I’m Fabio, a software developer
I love building
solutions to relevant problems
in a cheap, fast & good way

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/859143370412879872

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...so do I Fabio, but…
Are you really really sure WDTAAA?

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Part 1
Words, context & worries

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I’m Fabio, a software developer
Thus, at some point, I need to write code.

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I’m Fabio, a software developer
Things are confused...
I’m a bit scared, worried!

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Part 2
Back to basics & today

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February 11-13, 2001
The Lodge, Snowbird Ski Resort - Utah, USA
● XP community + light methods (SCRUM, Pragmatic…)
● RUP, UML were around since a while
● Need an alternative to...
○ Heavyweight, documentation driven software
○ Get rid of “Dilbertesque” corporations
https://ironblosam.net/

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Manifesto for
Agile Software Development
is today
Manifesto for
Agile Software Development
Dave Thomas, 2015

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Agile Software Development
anymore
Fabio Mora
fabiomora.com
18 November 2017
Urbino

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I’m Fabio, a software developer
Ideas of agility and flexibility were brilliant!

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Technology Adoption Lifecycle
The Roger’s Bell curve could be applied to Agile

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Gartner’s Hype Cycle
Agile is in the “Plateau of Productivity”

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“Social Brain Hypothesis” implications
Scaling Agile?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140919172105-25909192-dunbar-s-number-the-social-fibonacci-sequence/

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“This is Water” & boiled frogs
The importance of consciousness

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“Disciplines self-destruct
themselves in two ways:
by the extension they assume,
by the excessive depth they descend.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
from a lecture by Salvatore Settis, 2016

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Agile Software Development:
Some Good Parts *
(*) my own version

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Plan-Do-Check-Act
The Deming Circle is agile!
The core concept

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Extreme Programming
The most prescriptive part
The method

37. Barry
Bohem
CoCoMo
Kent
Beck
XP

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● Simplicity
● Feedback
● Courage
● Rapid Feedback
● Assume Simplicity
● Incremental Change
● Embracing Change
● Quality Work

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● Simple Design
● Metaphor
○ Domain Driven Design
● Testing
● Pair Programming
● Planning Game
○ Conversations
○ ...Scrum, Kanban

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Fixed Time && Fixed Scope

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The Cargo Cult
Steve McConnell, Signal/Noise
The antipattern

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● Don’t emulate, create your own principles
● Don’t just copy/paste (code, structures, patterns...)
● Be opinionated
● Objectives without urgency aren’t necessities

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The ways to diverge
Experiments & learnings
And the flow theory

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● Deliberate practice
○ Kata, Koans
○ Coding Dojo
○ Code Retreats
● Communities
○ User Groups
○ Conferences
○ Meetups
● Spikes
● …and more!

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A metaphor
Don’t forget to tell user stories
The importance of making the invisible visible

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“The object become visible are
the ones he actually touches”
“Blindness wasn’t the main
problem, it was embarrassment”
David Rakoff, 2012
http://tal.fm/464

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A final note
Focus on knowledge,
not competences

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“It’s easy to adopt
new technologies,
it can be hard to adopt
new ways of thinking.”
Bret Victor
Inspired to Alan Kay, 2015

51. Thanks!
Questions? Advices? Complains? =)
Fabio Mora
fabiomora.com
18 November 2017
Urbino

52. Bibliography, talks & credits...
18 November 2017
Urbino
● About the “agilemanifesto.org” story:
○ https://martinfowler.com/articles/agileStory.html
○ https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/SemanticDiffusion.html
○ http://agilemanifesto.org/history.html
● Roger’s Bell curve, Gartner’s Hype Cycle, PDCA graphs are all from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons
● “This is water” is a story by David Foster Wallace - Kenyon College Commencement Speech, 2005
○ The picture comes from: https://aquestionablemind.com/2017/02/05/i-am-not-the-wise-old-fish/
● “The Invisible Made Visibile” is a radio show by This American Life: http://bit.ly/2jiNGya
● Dilbert comics are made by Scott Adams: http://dilbert.com/
● Animated GIFs collected from GIPHY: 1, 2
● Guiding Principles are inspired to Lego Serious Play - Real Time Strategy workshop
● Gothe citations reported from: https://goo.gl/tysJk9, https://goo.gl/ZskAwk
● Special thanks to Paolo Polce, Gabriele Lana, Matteo Vaccari, Alberto Brandolini, Filippo Liverani, Jacopo
Romei, Fabio Fabrucci (+ many others!) for the learnings during those years of Italian Agile Movement

53. Bibliography, talks & credits...
18 November 2017
Urbino
● Inspiring talks, articles, books:
○ http://itsadeliverything.com/agile-i-prefer-hype-to-ignorance
○ https://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html
○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsHMHukIlJY
○ https://simpleprogrammer.com/2017/02/17/agile-is-dead-code-review/
○ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4
○ http://wiki.c2.com/?ExtremeValues
○ https://martinfowler.com/bliki/PrinciplesOfXP.html
○ K. Beck / C. Andres, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2nd Ed., 2014
○ W. C. Wake, Extreme Programming Explored, 2001
● Unless specified, photos are my own
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