The document discusses how to recognize and prevent bullshit about agile practices. Some signs of bullshit include talking without doing, using buzzwords instead of real content, and avoiding direct questions. To prevent bullshit, the document recommends asking why changes are being made, designing small experiments to evaluate changes, and maintaining a skeptical approach.

1. How to Bullshit about
Agile.
Tomas Kejzlar
AgilePrague, 12th September 2017

2. Bullshit is easy. And it is
everywhere around us.

3. What do we think are the
truths and bullsthits
about agility?

14. How to recognize bullshit
then?

15. Talking about stuff instead of
doing it
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16. Offering ”sellable” solutions to
whatever problems you have
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17. Using meaningless buzzwords
instead of real content
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18. Nice and likeable phrases with no
scientific backing
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19. Avoiding answers to direct
questions
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20. And how to prevent it or
eliminate it?

21. Ask yourself
Are we taking small steps, evaluating
them, learning from them and feeding it
back to subsequent steps we make?
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22. Design, run and evaluate
“experiments”
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23. Before you change things, ask yourself:
WHY?
FOR WHAT PURPOSE?
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24. And above all: be skeptical!
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25. Want to learn more?
Read:
https://www.happymelly.com/how-to-stop-bullshit/
Listen to: http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/5504704/tdest_id/402889
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@skepticagilist
www.skepticalagile.com