{"id":1821,"date":"2010-07-03T14:13:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T18:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2010-07-03T03:40:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T07:40:56","slug":"agile-software-development-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/agile-software-development-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Agile software development and &#8220;value&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/agile-software-development-value\/release-burndown-by-kjudy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Release Burndown\" src=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/public\/blogimages\/releaseburndown-small.png\" title=\"Release Burndown\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>As advocates of agile software development we focus on practices. <\/p>\n<p>The hype on those practices is they produce software, &#8220;faster, cheaper, better.&#8221; And we sell our efforts with the promise of, &#8220;delivering value.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We speak of value as if the definition is shared, self-evident, contained within our backlogs and measured by our burn ups.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time we minimize the hard and long the struggle to achieve mastery, identify and address a material need, and sustain creativity and quality.<\/p>\n<p>So, we win the opportunity to labor with our teams to incrementally deliver potentially shippable units of code to stated business priorities. <\/p>\n<p>When those priorities are pointless, so is the software.<\/p>\n<p>When those priorities are tactical and subjective, the values behind agile practice &#8212; sustainable effort, maintainable code, self-directed teams, collaboration and trust &#8212; become irrelevant. <\/p>\n<p>The truth is there are definitions of &#8220;value&#8221; that sell us out whether or not material success accrues to someone as a result of the software development effort.<\/p>\n<p>And so, an agile adoption that is true to its participants is an ongoing, perhaps excruciatingly gradual, but substantive conversation with the larger organization on the definition of value.<\/p>\n<p>A set of practices is only companion to the human values that give our work meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As advocates of agile software development we focus on practices. 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