TotherAlistair @totheralistair@qoto.org
Chaotic-good Lawful-neutral project witchdoctor. Bard. Dancer. Poet. He/him. Own massage technique ("initial response technique'). Playful, wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting. Sits underwater. Current occupation: Becoming more me while making me a meme (it's a tricky, two-oared rowing activity)
Joined Oct 2022
@chetHendrickson
re: scrum: replace "most" with "some" and i'll be on the same track as regards scrum in software. ... now, let's take would-be-agile teams away from software, and leave off the word scrum entirely .... and .... we're back to my original post.
@alexvictoor
i don't know if you were there when it was created, it was definitely pitched as mostly tech practices for programming.
Any kickass team construction was a side effect that appeared after the fact --
then, there are surely ways to build kickass teams that don't require red-green refactoring and automated regressions unit tests.
been rereading this just now; a good way to start a new year:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140329201828/http://alistair.cockburn.us/Using+APEs+to+clear+ANTs+from+your+mind
If you had been omniscient on Jan 1, 2022, what would you have wished for to happen this year (and came true).
https://web.archive.org/web/20140329205650/http://alistair.cockburn.us/Post-hoc+new+years+resolutions+2011
Expansion on the question: XP was mostly tech practices for programming. Scrum contains no tech practices for any domain. People complain about SCrum that it misses XP's tech practices. Now I see general comments that "agile in general" is missing XP's tech practices, but they don't say "XP's tech practices", they say just "tech practices."
But agile is applicable everywhere, not just programming. When you are not in programming, XP's tech practices are not relevant ---- so, if we choose to agree that tech practices are essential to agile, we have to ask what are those tech practices that apply to some other endeavor.
People who know me also spot here that this is my way of rebutting the assertion that tech practices are the foundation of agile. if you/they can't name the tech practices for other fields, then the assertion "tech practices are the foundation of agile" is false.
So it is both an interesting question in its own right, and a challenge to the assertion. Typical Alistair styles, lol.
I see this sometimes: To be agile requires technical practices, that's the foundation. If technical practices are ignored (which is the common case), we get FlaccidScrum.
I might agree, but I need to ask, what are the technical practices for an org transformation project? and what are the technical practices for installing a clean water system in a rural village?
@RuthMalan @glv
unknown backstory : I was talking to Peter Naur in Copenhagen (soooo happy to meet him in person what a treat) and asked permission to reprint it - he said he and the publisher had an altercation and he didn't want to deal with them --- somehow I brokered whatever was needed (can't recall) so nobody got hurt and they all ok'd it :)
That is such a foundational article, I quote it all the time, glad it is still "relatively easy" to find.
p.s. the other two appendices in that book are likewise. Def pls go read them.
@mostalive thank you.
this article has a better synopsis of a larger set of interviews:
unexpected humor from linkedin:
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https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7008916993537961985/
it's in paper! (but it's so thin, lol, and the print is big, sigh; but : here)
found this video hahahaha that was a while ago, eh?
hash tag: trim the tail
@mostalive @thirstybear
thank you - small correction, probably a few dozen projects, and all over the world, not even just in IBM. Thanks
got 20 requests for inscribed books, that's a chunk of work (getting mailing addresses, payments, writing, mailing, etc)
am glad this kickstarter was so small - good learning curve
Yo! My poetry book is finally listed on Amazon!
and wow, there is ALREADY a "Used" book available!
and i haven't even received my first print yet!
how do they do that?!? 😁
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Trio-Amor-Alistair-Cockburn-ebook/dp/B0BPCCHZCG/
i loved making these drawings and describing them on the fly, till there was just a mess at the end :)
i do like this talk - very much a fireside chat, it was almost 15 min before I went to the 1st slide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr5wfygbY7k&t=655s
i actually do this at the END of the year, not the start - now I have all the data, what were the good and interesting and surprising stories I encountered ---- it always surprises me how many and how good.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140329205650/http://alistair.cockburn.us/Post-hoc+new+years+resolutions+2011
@chrisremmel
i have tons of energy for some things. I'm working hard to hit certain deadlines, but just keep not taking the garbage out.
I was saying lazy, but someone corrected me.
like procrastination, but on ly on certain things, those I don't want to do ...very selective. I do certain things with great energy, and then just walk over my socks (e.g., and Just anything that doesn't catch my fancy).
I usually say lazy but that isn't right.
is there a word for someone who is really good at avoiding doing something they don't like to do?
Not like lazy, which is a disinclination to exertion in general.
i mean like walking past socks on the floor for days in a row, taking out the garbage, etc.
any?
Chaotic-good Lawful-neutral project witchdoctor. Bard. Dancer. Poet. He/him. Own massage technique ("initial response technique'). Playful, wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting. Sits underwater. Current occupation: Becoming more me while making me a meme (it's a tricky, two-oared rowing activity)
Joined Oct 2022
