James Coplien explores the history of Agile and object-oriented programming, arguing they have lost their human-centric roots.
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Berlin 2017. #GOTOcon #GOTOber
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James Coplien - Lean/Agile Process & Architecture Coach; Founder of the Pasteur Organizational Patterns Project @jamescoplien5257
ABSTRACT
It can easily be argued that agile grew out of the spirit of object orientation: its focus on change, on anthropomorphism, and on people. Alan Kay saw objects as a way for people to connect with their environments through their machines. As late as the 1980s people were still talking about anthropomorphic [...]
TIMECODES
Intro
A Family Tree
The Agile Manifesto
Genetic Epistemology
Where have objects gone wrong?
Where has Agile gone wrong?
Agile has lost its roots
and the good parts are little understood
The Common Enemies
Restoring Focus
Elusive lands over the horizon
Organizational Learning Models
Failure to Dream
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4 people recommend this
What people say. Recommended for its historical perspective on Agile and for clarifying that daily standups are meant for planning rather than status updates.
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On “Tested shitty code vs high quality code without tests”
…pile of crap you own, if it is such. It's your only hope. Adding anything to the pile will be just more dead developer souls and crap. Then ... do it simply with tried and true tooling and simple patterns that you can explain to a 7 year old ... and stick to it.
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On “Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones”
Coming from a historical perspective, Agile isn't a methodology. It's a movement - it has a manifesto. Twenty years ago, a bunch of prominent names in the industry got together to talk about what they had in common. This amazing talk by Jim Coplien has an agile family tree at the linked timestamp, but includes:
1. Toyota Production System (1950)
1. New New Product Development Game (1986)
1. Scrum (1993)
1. Extreme Programming (1996)
1. Simula (1967)
1. OO (1980)
1. Patterns (1992)
1. Agile (2001)
Proponents of these systems came together, and discussed what they all had in common. The result was The Agile Manifesto, linked above. The manifesto itself is 68 words:
> #Manifesto for Agile…
On “Do You Find Daily Scrums/Stand-ups to Be Useful?”
I used to wonder until I heard a talk by James Coplien where he explained that standups aren't meant to be a status update - they're meant to be a mini-sprint planning. (roughly 35 min mark)
The idea is that it gives the team an opportunity to change what they're doing (pivot) based on the feedback, eg if a story is bigger than it seemed then it can be re-prioritized. It doesn't really work if a) no one pays attention other than management, and b) you can't change the sprint plan.
If you don't mind the screaming, that whole talk is worth a listen. I don't agree with him about unit tests but he's got a lot of valuable wisdom and experience with Agile.
