Has anyone got a timeline of the history & evolution of modern “agile”? Eg. I can see similarities in Spiral, RAD etc, and I believe there was something like proto-TDD in NASA in the 60s? And the initial Scrum paper from Sutherland, Schwaber et al. in the 90s, expanding an original article by Nonaka & Takeuchi (80s)
I am pleased to say the folks I mentor are starting to take a healthy interest in its history and where it came from so they can go back to the source to validate the present.
@thirstybear a visit to Bletchley Park / computer history museum there may be in order - early computers were built in close collaboration with rapid iteration. Also attracts old hands as visitors, had some interesting chats in front of pdp-11s and analog computers
@thirstybear Also, this interview with Jerry Weinberg - TDD on Punchcards may be interesting - https://medium.com/@DaveSchinkel/tdd-on-punch-cards-f17c25282fa4 starts in 1958/9, Project mercury, spaceflight.
@thirstybear also Christopher Alexanders' Notes on the Synthesis of form, which influenced (to his regret, I believe) design systems. It came out of his PhD for IBM. I believe he recommended against reading it, because it is overy formal, but the introduction is a good introduction to trade-offs and thinking about them.
HIs Timeless Way of Building influenced the patterns movement.
@thirstybear And, although I don't have a copy anymore, @totheralistair 's "surviving OO projects" presents a survey of hundreds of teams in IBM in what made them succeed in the 90s.
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thank you - small correction, probably a few dozen projects, and all over the world, not even just in IBM. Thanks
@mostalive thank you.
this article has a better synopsis of a larger set of interviews:
@totheralistair @thirstybear@agilodon.soical Thank you. I should get a fresh copy and re-read :-).