The Next Decade (of Agile Software Development)

In 2011, I looked back at the Extreme Decade. We've advanced the state of the art, and people remain uniformly miserable in their work. Now I have to ask some key questions: Where do we go from here? What happened to the impact we expected to have on the world of work? Why don't software projects work yet? Why aren't we all rich? What's missing?

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2. The Next Decade
   Where do we go from here?
   

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3. Watch the video
   at http://link.jbrains.ca/1aJLeBd
   (4 minutes)
   

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4. “Why aren’t
   we rich yet?”
   Kent Beck...in 2003
   

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6. We fancy “Agile”
   as a mindset...
   

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7. http://blog.brodzinski.com/2010/03/you-must-be-agile.html
   I don’t think our message is quite getting through...
   

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9. We use awesome
   Zen-like phrases
   that we understand,
   but the rest of the
   world doesn’t
   

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10. Bill Caputo
    

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11. http://xprogramming.com/articles/jatbaseball/
    Ron Jeffries: “We Tried Baseball and It Didn’t Work”
    

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12. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheyreJustRules
    Community: “They’re Just Rules”
    

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13. http://link.jbrains.ca/Tghs02
    Energised Work / Gus Power
    

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14. Where does all
    this leave us?
    

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15. worked my ass off to transform
    the way we all build software
    

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16. Chip and Dan Heath
    Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
    

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17. http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Etudes-for-Excellence.html
    James Shore: “Études for Excellence”
    

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18. “Why aren’t
    we rich yet?”
    

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19. David Anderson
    Olav Maassen
    Chris Matts
    Ron Jeffries
    Chet Hendrickson
    Diana Larsen
    Uncle Bob
    David Snowden Eric Ries
    Aslak Hellesøy
    

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20. We’ve scripted the
    critical moves, but
    we’ve failed to
    convey the vision
    

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21. “They” have no
    real reason to
    change, so “they”
    work to rule...
    

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22. In 2012, this guy moved in down the street from me...
    Steven Baker http://stevenrbaker.com/
    

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23. This model helps me “sell” practices to people
    Heiman, Tuleja, Miller: “The New Strategic Selling”
    

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24. ...so while we
    believe this...
    

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25. Dee Hock,
    Birth of the Chaordic Age
    Simple, clear purpose and
    principles give rise to
    complex, intelligent
    behavior. Complex rules
    and regulations give rise to
    simple, stupid behavior.
    

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26. ...we get this...
    

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27. People appear to really want to buy rules, processes, templates...
    

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28. Training companies are taking advantage of this trend...
    

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31. There, there...
    

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32. What happened?!
    

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33. I don’t think this attitude has helped much over the years...
    

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34. “Grandma’s Ham”, page 43
    Steve McConnell: “Code Complete”
    

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35. Watch the video at
    http://link.jbrains.ca/bob-newhart-stop-it
    (6 minutes)
    

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36. Let’s look at our most
    well-advertised,
    popular practices
    

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37. photo: Karthik Chandrasekarial
    http://martinfowler.com/articles/itsNotJustStandingUp.html
    

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38. Travelogue
    Face Time
    80% done
    

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39. Now’s your chance to complain... get it out of your system.
    

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40. What’s missing?
    

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41. Risks!
    

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42. http://link.jbrains.ca/S2jyPY
    Chapter 2, Risk Management is Product Management for Adults
    

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43. These folks look like they’re “doing it right”!
    

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44. A place to put those quick things that come to mind...
    

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45. http://www.slideshare.net/lunivore/behavior-driven-development-11754474
    Liz Keogh, “Behavior-Driven Development”
    

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46. How different are your Cucumber scenarios from this?
    

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48. What’s missing?
    

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49. Involving the
    Customer
    

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51. Talking in
    Examples
    

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52. http://www.slideshare.net/lunivore/behavior-driven-development-11754474
    Liz Keogh, “Behavior-Driven Development”
    

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53. I still believe that this is a great place to start...
    

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55. I need my story next!
    

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56. What’s missing?
    

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58. Negotiating scope: not “which stories?” but “how much of each story?”
    

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59. Gus Power, “Extreme Pair Programming”
    http://energizedwork.com/weblog/2009/05/extreme-pair-programming
    

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61. ;
    

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64. What’s missing?
    

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65. http://link.jbrains.ca/V4bQsW
    Arlo Belshee, “Promiscuous Pairing and Beginner’s Mind”
    

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66. Watch the video at
    http://link.jbrains.ca/angela-harms-excerpt
    (1 minute)
    

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67. http://www.industrialxp.org/retrospectives.html
    

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71. What’s missing?
    

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72. As always, trust remains the principal ingredient...
    

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73. It all seems so simple...
    

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76. I’m sorry, Dave... but I can’t let you change that.
    

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77. What’s missing?
    

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79. I know it’s very old advice, but it remains just as true today.
    

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82. Uh... yeah... I’m going to
    need you to go ahead and
    get 12 more points done
    this sprint...
    

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83. What’s missing?
    

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84. Negotiating scope: not “which stories?” but “how much of each story?”
    

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85. The only estimating scale I recommend. Maybe add “give me a minute”.
    

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87. Even Jenkins can’t integrate all those features at once!
    

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88. What’s missing?
    

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89. http://link.jbrains.ca/TePNKE
    James Shore: “Continuous Integration is an Attitude, Not a Tool”
    

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90. http://link.jbrains.ca/R8rBxx
    

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91. What’s missing?
    

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94. Salmer fra sjøkkenet / Kitchen Stories
    

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95. How do your Scrum Masters answer this question?
    Office Space. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/
    

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96. What’s in the way?
    

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97. Ego
    

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98. What do you think
    practitioners miss
    when they try to
    follow our advice?
    

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99. I like to focus on
    these ideas both
    when I teach and
    when I practice...
    

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100. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/48820
     Josh Gough
     

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101. http://link.jbrains.ca/product-sashimi
     

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102. http://www.jbrains.ca/permalink/three-steps-to-a-useful-minimal-feature
     The “Contract, then Expand” technique
     

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103. http://www.jbrains.ca/permalink/becoming-an-accomplished-software-
     designer
     

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105. http://link.jbrains.ca/T7HCPC
     The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
     

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106. http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/2010/10/16/integrated-tests-are-a-scam/
     J. B. Rainsberger, “Integrated Tests Are a Scam: Part 1”
     

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107. Mob Programming
     Converging towards a common design standard
     

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108. http://www.coderetreat.org
     http://www.legacycoderetreat.org
     Summerside, PEI, Canada
     Tomorrow at 2:00 pm!
     

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109. Will you join me?
     

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110. The Next Decade
     me@jbrains.ca
     More mindful practice
     References: http://link.jbrains.ca/next-decade
     

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