Agile in 2018

Martin Fowler reflects on Agile’s journey to become a mainstream methodology, along with some of the successes and failures encountered along the way.

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[BryonLape]

Listen only. Do not watch or you will go blind.

[nisimjoseph]

One of the best lecture on Agile. So true and so easy to implement the idea of changing the method and fit it to the team and not the way around.

[gregfletcher]

Excellent example of how video compression works...

[anticom]

Magnificent idea to shoot the vid in front of a huge pixelated LED wall. Sorry might be a good talk but can't watch it due to horrible video compression caused by that.

[vimalneha]

excellent talk. The same way we have DevOps manifesto CALMS (Culture to embrace change, Automation, Lean (small change), Measure of improvement and Sharing the know how) The BUS factor won't work in DevOps world.

[EmilNicolaiePerhinschi]

... wondering where exactly did Frederick Taylor say that the workers were 'venal, lazy and stupid' ...

[BryonLape]

Martin Fowler, the man who promotes the use of multiple return states in methods, but doesn't like where agile has gone. By the way, which 9 pixels are Martin?

[seinfan]

Why would you upload a video that strains the eyes? Are you blind?

[gug]

Agile software. Produce shit... quickly. Do it all again later, ad-infinitum. Taking the engineering out of 'Software Engineering' Its funny how its mentioned that not many software developers would turn up to Agile conferences and it would be mostly people who didnt actually write software. Duh... take a hint. At least he admits that not all agile proponents would claim that agile should be used everywhere... Can you imagine getting on an airplane knowing that its flight control systems had been written by a bunch of people pressured to release early by a bunch of middle managers that didn't know jack shit about quality or software engineering ? We had a guy at my company come in and push this on other develpers. So far i'd estimate they've wasted years on this bullshit to end up with a 'product' thats so far taken 6 years, is 60% as featured as what it replaced, 75% as reliable and still doesn't actually do most of its own logic (relies on querying an API written by people that know they cant just churn out shit) and is actually running 1 /12 the websites it used to and just _does_ not scale, plus had more people working on it that then old version This might be because the guy was a dick and they were stupid enough to let him run it but this agile stuff must be seen for what it is - Absolutely NO guarantee of quality. 20 years ago it was all about how can we guarantee quality and correctness. Now its, ship it out the door no matter what and fix later. Way to go Software Industry ! He talks about releasing multiple times a day and automated testing. Fine if you're releasing some shitty web app that isn't that important. But _real_ testing is more than throwing selenium at an app to see if it displays correctly. - if thats all you need, then you're working on something trivial.

[crptc]

Why so many programmers are obsessed with this conman is completely beyond me... the guy who has no solid computer science education background and has NOT made any remarkable software widely used and yet successfully makes a living by selling bullshit methodologies?