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Pragmatic Agile - Remember the First Value!
Everyone, I'd like you to meet Al. He's a real person, not a conglomeration of people or a fictional persona created for this post. Al is a ScrumMaster at a recent client... a ScrumMaster with a secret.
I coached Al and his team quite a bit for the first few months I was engaged at that client, and then to a lesser extent for the next 18 months. That team was very high performing, avoiding
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Agile in its Second Decade
For quite some time I've been working on a post to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto. I suppose that, as the 11th anniversary has now passed, it would be rather silly to continue to celebrate the 10th! :)
Part of my foot-dragging has been the feeling that I wasn't adding anything to the discussion about a decade of Agile. Every now and then something would spark my
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Occupy Agile
I understand that the "Occupy" meme and movement is "so 2011", but after some conversations with friends over the past few days I've begun to realize that I'm not the only person who thinks that the Agile world has been moving further and further away from its origins in the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto.
I've had multiple people now say that they were beginning to feel that they
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