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?
3. Watch the video at http://link.jbrains.ca/1aJLeBd (4 minutes)
4. “Why aren’t we rich yet?” Kent Beck...in 2003
6. We fancy “Agile” as a mindset...
7. http://blog.brodzinski.com/2010/03/you-must-be-agile.html I don’t think our message is quite getting through...
9. We use awesome Zen-like phrases that we understand, but the rest of the world doesn’t
10. Bill Caputo
11. http://xprogramming.com/articles/jatbaseball/ Ron Jeffries: “We Tried Baseball and It Didn’t Work”
12. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheyreJustRules Community: “They’re Just Rules”
13. http://link.jbrains.ca/Tghs02 Energised Work / Gus Power
14. Where does all this leave us?
15. worked my ass off to transform the way we all build software
16. Chip and Dan Heath Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
17. http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Etudes-for-Excellence.html James Shore: “Études for Excellence”
18. “Why aren’t we rich yet?”
19. David Anderson Olav Maassen Chris Matts Ron Jeffries Chet Hendrickson Diana Larsen Uncle Bob David Snowden Eric Ries Aslak Hellesøy
20. We’ve scripted the critical moves, but we’ve failed to convey the vision
21. “They” have no real reason to change, so “they” work to rule...
22. In 2012, this guy moved in down the street from me... Steven Baker http://stevenrbaker.com/
23. This model helps me “sell” practices to people Heiman, Tuleja, Miller: “The New Strategic Selling”
24. ...so while we believe this...
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.
26. ...we get this...
27. People appear to really want to buy rules, processes, templates...
28. Training companies are taking advantage of this trend...
31. There, there...
32. What happened?!
33. I don’t think this attitude has helped much over the years...
34. “Grandma’s Ham”, page 43 Steve McConnell: “Code Complete”
35. Watch the video at http://link.jbrains.ca/bob-newhart-stop-it (6 minutes)
36. Let’s look at our most well-advertised, popular practices
37. photo: Karthik Chandrasekarial http://martinfowler.com/articles/itsNotJustStandingUp.html
38. Travelogue Face Time 80% done
39. Now’s your chance to complain... get it out of your system.
40. What’s missing?
41. Risks!
42. http://link.jbrains.ca/S2jyPY Chapter 2, Risk Management is Product Management for Adults
43. These folks look like they’re “doing it right”!
44. A place to put those quick things that come to mind...
45. http://www.slideshare.net/lunivore/behavior-driven-development-11754474 Liz Keogh, “Behavior-Driven Development”
46. How different are your Cucumber scenarios from this?
48. What’s missing?
49. Involving the Customer
51. Talking in Examples
52. http://www.slideshare.net/lunivore/behavior-driven-development-11754474 Liz Keogh, “Behavior-Driven Development”
53. I still believe that this is a great place to start...
55. I need my story next!
56. What’s missing?
58. Negotiating scope: not “which stories?” but “how much of each story?”
59. Gus Power, “Extreme Pair Programming” http://energizedwork.com/weblog/2009/05/extreme-pair-programming
61. ;
64. What’s missing?
65. http://link.jbrains.ca/V4bQsW Arlo Belshee, “Promiscuous Pairing and Beginner’s Mind”
66. Watch the video at http://link.jbrains.ca/angela-harms-excerpt (1 minute)
67. http://www.industrialxp.org/retrospectives.html
71. What’s missing?
72. As always, trust remains the principal ingredient...
73. It all seems so simple...
76. I’m sorry, Dave... but I can’t let you change that.
77. What’s missing?
79. I know it’s very old advice, but it remains just as true today.
82. Uh... yeah... I’m going to need you to go ahead and get 12 more points done this sprint...
83. What’s missing?
84. Negotiating scope: not “which stories?” but “how much of each story?”
85. The only estimating scale I recommend. Maybe add “give me a minute”.
87. Even Jenkins can’t integrate all those features at once!
88. What’s missing?
89. http://link.jbrains.ca/TePNKE James Shore: “Continuous Integration is an Attitude, Not a Tool”
90. http://link.jbrains.ca/R8rBxx
91. What’s missing?
94. Salmer fra sjøkkenet / Kitchen Stories
95. How do your Scrum Masters answer this question? Office Space. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/
96. What’s in the way?
97. Ego
98. What do you think practitioners miss when they try to follow our advice?
99. I like to focus on these ideas both when I teach and when I practice...
100. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/48820 Josh Gough
101. http://link.jbrains.ca/product-sashimi
102. http://www.jbrains.ca/permalink/three-steps-to-a-useful-minimal-feature The “Contract, then Expand” technique
103. http://www.jbrains.ca/permalink/becoming-an-accomplished-software- designer
105. http://link.jbrains.ca/T7HCPC The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
106. http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/2010/10/16/integrated-tests-are-a-scam/ J. B. Rainsberger, “Integrated Tests Are a Scam: Part 1”
107. Mob Programming Converging towards a common design standard
108. http://www.coderetreat.org http://www.legacycoderetreat.org Summerside, PEI, Canada Tomorrow at 2:00 pm!
109. Will you join me?
110. The Next Decade me@jbrains.ca More mindful practice References: http://link.jbrains.ca/next-decade