Scrum, XP, Management and the Ethics of Agile Software Development

Winning Hearts and Minds to Agile

January 25th, 2008

My colleague, Wendy, posted a quote from our former CEO describing the benefit she gained from collaborating in an Agile environment.

The way to win over an entrepreneur is to out-perform expectations set from painful, past experience.

Before Scrum/XP

…six months later, they deliver what the assignment was. And you look at it and say, “Oh no, that’s not what I wanted.”

With Scrum/XP

…you work on a two-week cycle… You agree on what the priorities are in the meeting. You review the priorities. You evaluate where you are, and you move to the next step…

–Interview with Geraldine Laybourne, Condé Nast Portfolio

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ken h. judyI am an executive manager, software developer, father and husband trying to do more good than harm.
Working to spend each day doing a little less crap and a little more not crap than the day before. Without delegating my crap to others.
Aspiring to pride in my accom- plishments and pride in who I become as I attain them.
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