Agile is Over (Or Not) with Allen Holub

In this episode, Allen joined Shahin to talk about what truly Agile is in today’s world of Software Development.

Topics

We conversed about and around the following topics:

• Agile or Not


• Agile is nothing more than Better Software Better


• What is Real Agile Thinking? Reasons to Avoid Agile


• Fake Agile, Dark Agile (Foe Agile)


• Trust is the heart of agile


• SAFE v.s. Scrum; Kanban Board Assumes Linear Process

Agile in The Time of Corona

• Scrum’s Response to Corona


• Remote Working Went Bad – More Silos


• The Complexity Of Working From Home


• Work Is A Human Activity

Challenges of Successful Agile Transformation in Large Organization (And Typically Failures)

• Experiments Failure in Big Organizations; PMO and Agile Failure Pattern


• ING Transformation Story (New Zealand) + Home Depot


• Dunbar Number

Agile Architecture

• Designing Flexible (Agile) Code and Dependency (of code) with the Client; The Holub Principle


• Architecture Process Code Culture Connected for True Agile


• Mob Moves Forward Even If Individual Has To Drop Out And Come Back In

Social Software Development & Mentorship

People & Resources:

We referred to and/or mentioned the following people and/or resources:

Books

• Fixing Your Scrum – (Amazon US – Amazon CA)


• Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time – (Amazon US – Amazon CA)


• Holub on Patterns (Amazon US – Amazon CA)

People:

• Ryan Ripley


• Jeff Sutherland


• Ken Schwaber


• The New New Product


• Simon Brown


• Gerry Weinberg

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