- “Extreme programming without scrum works fine; scrum without XP doesn’t work at all — what are we doing?”
- Love the rant about what a waste of time estimating is, since inevitably something will come up that invalidates the estimate
Original video by Continuous Delivery:
Allen Holub is a computer scientist, author, educator, and consultant. He has written extensively on the C, C++, and Java programming languages, and on object-oriented programming in general. Allen is well known for his uncompromising view of agile adoption and in particular the assumption that Scrum is the only agile approach. In the past he has said “Jira is the work of the devil” and “Agile has become a priesthood”. Allen is engagingly forthright in his views.
In this episode of The Engineering Room, Dave Farley discusses with Allen the prevailing culture, and often anti-patterns, that lead to problems in agile adoption, and between them, they explore some of the ideas that really matter in becoming genuinely agile, as a practical way to more effective software development.
➡️ Links:
Allen Holub’s Website ➡️ https://holub.com
Allen Holub’s Heuristics ➡️ https://holub.com/heuristics/
The Agile Manifesto ➡️ https://agilemanifesto.org
Westrum Model of Organizational Culture ➡️ https://bit.ly/3QaK8bE
Mike Rother Describing the Toyota Kata ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l68cFskC7Y
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Welcome to The Engineering Room
01:00 Agile is Broken
03:42 Scrum is ‘Mostly’ Harmless
08:53 It’s a Business Decision
11:00 I’m an Agilista!
12:35 Get Better Estimates v Get Things Done
15:15 Making Change in Big Biz
19:40 Individuals and Interactions: How Much Fun Are You Having?
21:25 Abuse of Accelerate Metrics
24:50 Throughput, Stability and Value
28:45 Lean-Thinking & Kanban
30:40 New Book about What Doesn’t Work, and Why
32:10 Twitter
35:25 How to Be Opinionated
38:20 Focus on One Problem - Try One Thing
40:45 The Toyota Thing
45:30 The Agile Manifesto & Allen’s Heuristics
48:45 Not Data Driven?!
53:50 SW Dev Needs Smart and Motivated People
55:00 Culture & Performance
58:40 Recruiting People You Can Work With
1:03:20 Learning & Relevant Skills
1:08:30 Advice from 2 Grumpy Old Men :-)
1:11:45 Wrap Up