Like minds are a good thing

noreply@blogger.com (Chris Johnson) — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:17:00 +0000

I was awarded a breath of fresh air today. To celebrate I’m making my first blog entry.

For what seems like the past year I have felt as if I was spinning up a hill on the big ring (you cyclist will know what I mean). I have been advocating about the capabilities of agile/scrum, how it can be used in everything from developing software to managing your Saturday morning. I have never been the one that thinks agile or scrum are perfect. I think in their truest (well most extreme) form are better suited for garage companies and small think tanks or start ups… no secret there. Enterprise agile requires SO much more than the books of yester year prescribe. You have to consider several things that a true scrumie would cringe at… actual time tracking, work breakdown structure, PERT, geographically distributed development, etc. The fresh air? Oh yeah… I stumbled onto to thought leaders that are currently making the same challenges and assumptions I have… only they have the metrics and the answers to rationalize what I have been feeling in my gut for quite some time.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler

http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?Function=edetail&ObjectType=COL&ObjectId=10365&tth=DYN&tt=siteemail&iDyn=2#authorbio

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Like minds are a good thing