JAX London Presentation 2014

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3. Who am I?
• Nigel Runnels-Moss
• @sleepyfox
• Founder of London Code Dojo
• Agile Coach, Polyglot craftsman
• 37 years programming stuf
• Working in ‘Agile’ since ~1996

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6. Structure
• Agile today
• What went wrong
• Development of methodologies
• Reveal: The Next Big ThingTM

7. Agile today

8. Agile has crossed the chasm
Agile

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20. You keep using that word “Metal”
I do not think it means
what you think it means

21. Agile
• Agile Testing
• Agile Modelling
• Agile Project Management
• Agile Transformation
• Agile Business Intelligence
• Agile Portfolio Management
• Agile Government
• 3,243 books on Agile on amazon.com

22. What does Agile mean?
• 'Fast'
• 'Good'
• 'Better'
• 'Cheaper'
• 'Reactive'
• 'Responsive to change'?
• 'Lightweight'?
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23. Agile?
People conflate concepts . . .
• Agile methodologies
• Agile principles or values
• Agile tools or techniques
• Linguistic meanings of 'agile'

24. WAT?

25. Wide-scale backlash
• “75% of
organisations do not
get the benefits they
expect.”
– Ken Schwaber,
founder of Scrum

26. Wide-scale backlash
• 60% of CSM 'graduates' felt bad about certification –
Scott Ambler survey
• “Only 1% of lean initiatives meet their goals.” -
Jefrey Liker, author of The Toyota Way
• “Agile development is an evangelical fad ill-suited to
government IT.” - corporate IT lawyer Alistair
Maughan, Computer Weekly
• “Agile Software is a cop-out.” - Mike Gualtieri,
Forrester Research

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30. Is TDD dead?
• “The rumors of my death have been greatly
exaggerated” – Mark Twain
• DHH, Martin Fowler and Kent Beck video-conferences
recorded here:
http://j.mp/1itjhAP
• “The DHH problem”, Tom Stuart
Scottish Ruby conf 2014
http://codon.com/the-dhh-problem

31. 'Lazy' Agile

32. Cargo Cult Agile

33. Agile Project Management

34. Kanban team
Product manager
Testers
Developers
Business
Analysts
Project
Manager

35. Pixar

37. The Future of Management
For more on what is wrong with the world
of Management, and what we can do about
it, see the slides on speakerdeck.com here:
http://j.mp/1p0FFWc

38. Timeline of Methodologies

39. The Next Big ThingTM!
1 2 3

40. Adoption curve
• Everett Moore, Difusion of Innovation, 1962

41. Development of Religious
Movements
Disciples
Vision
Scripture
Dogma
Reformation
Heresy

42. He's not the Messiah!

43. What Agile really means . . .
• Individuals and Interactions
• Working Software
• Customer Collaboration
• Responding to Change
• Processes and Tools
• Comprehensive Documentation
• Contract Negotiation
• Following a Plan

44. The 'hidden' part
“We are uncovering better ways of
developing software by doing it and
helping others do it.”
• Uncovering
• Better ways
• Doing it
• Helping others

45. Metaprogramming

46. Metaprogramming

47. Metaprogramming

48. Philosophy, not Methodology
• Forget Processes
–Learn Principles
• Forget Methodology
–Learn Context
• Forget Dogma
–Learn Values

49. The Tao of Programming

50. My New Book

51. The Next Big ThingTM!

52. Drive, Dan Pink
• Autonomy
• Mastery
• Purpose

53. Programmers

54. 10x programmers

55. Net-Negative Producers

56. Minimum Viable Programmer
MVP

57. Kihon, kihon, kihon

58. Coding and Karate
• Kihon
– Simple Design, SOLID, Design Patterns
• Kata
– Coding katas
• Kumite
– Pair programming, real work

61. TThhaannkk yyoouu
@sleepyfox everywhere
agile-environment.com