The talk: Agile is Dead
A forty minute talk compressed for quick reading.
- The title is designed to be provocative. The actual message is a simple grip at the industries trend of turning an adjective into a noun. Which was done partly to sell you something, training, consulting, books, conferences, ..
- Dave Thomas was part of the original meetup that produced the agile manifesto.
- The talk is mostly a rallying call to remember that the original agile manifesto was focused on principles/values and not techniques. It was called the 'Manifesto for Agile Software Development' and not the agile manifesto for a reason.
- He points out that every rule/recommendation/advice will fail in some circumstances. Thus beware of anybody who says 'always do X'.
- The core technique within agile is simply the 'do/measure/adapt' cycle, with one caveat that is sometimes forgotten. When two or more options exist that appear equal, choose the one that is more open to change.
