{"id":2528,"date":"2011-04-16T02:18:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T06:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2011-04-21T00:03:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T04:03:38","slug":"existential-joys-agile-practice-family-tradition-care-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/existential-joys-agile-practice-family-tradition-care-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"The existential joys of agile practice: a family tradition of care and craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/incrementor.com\/agilenyc\/\">Agile NYC<\/a> I presented a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pecha-kucha.org\/\">pecha kucha<\/a>. 20 slides. 20 seconds per slide. I&#8217;ll post in four parts.<\/p>\n<h2>A family tradition of care and craft<\/h2>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-top:36px;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2529\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/existential-joys-agile-practice-family-tradition-care-craft\/brocade-cloth-med\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/brocade-cloth-med.png\" data-orig-size=\"500,375\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Brocade Cloth\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/brocade-cloth-med.png\" src=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/brocade-cloth-med-300x225.png\" alt=\"Brocade Cloth\" title=\"Brocade Cloth\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/brocade-cloth-med-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/brocade-cloth-med.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>My mother is college educated but made her living through physical labor. She made valances on fancy drapery and upholstered fine furniture. <\/p>\n<p>She took pride in her work matching the pattern at the seams no matter how complex. And she worked long hours.<\/p>\n<p>She has arthritis from years handling heavy fabric.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-top:36px;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2530\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/existential-joys-agile-practice-family-tradition-care-craft\/sony-dsc\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/iStock_000007784833Medium.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1715,1120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSLR-A900&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1226699534&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;6&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SONY DSC&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Vacuum Tubes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/iStock_000007784833Medium-1024x668.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/iStock_000007784833Medium-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Vacuum Tubes\" title=\"Vacuum Tubes\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/iStock_000007784833Medium-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/iStock_000007784833Medium-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/iStock_000007784833Medium.jpg 1715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>My father is a retired engineer.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s always pursued hobbies with an engineer\u2019s precision. Book binding, restoring tube amplifiers, annealing, reshaping and tempering fishing hooks into an authentic 19th century fly fishing hook shape.<\/p>\n<p>If people offered to pay him for his hobby, he&#8217;d move on to something else. He did these things for pleasure.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-top:36px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/judykat\/2639593636\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3282\/2639593636_614d2cd5a3_m.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks by Ken Judy, All rights reserved.\"  class=\"alignleft \" \/><\/a>My ten-year old daughter aspires to be an engineer or scientist. She been a member of a Lego FIRST Robotics team since she was seven.<\/p>\n<p>When she first tried out, her teachers wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were chosen based on your ability to work well with your team and how well you cooperated with others.<\/p>\n<p>We also looked at your ability to problem solve, on your own and within the group, your endurance, enthusiasm, and your handle and care for the pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My girl is a born agilist&#8230;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div   style=\"clear:both;padding-top:36px;\">\n<h3>The existential joys of agile practice<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li> A family tradition of care and craft<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/existential-joys-agile-practice-live-imperfect-reality\/\">I want to live in our imperfect reality<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/existential-joys-agile-practice-people-process\/\">People over process<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/existential-joys-agile-practice-angel-shoulder\/\">Angel on your shoulder<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Agile NYC I presented a pecha kucha. 20 slides. 20 seconds per slide. I&#8217;ll post in four parts. A family tradition of care and craft My mother is college educated but made her living through physical labor. She made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/existential-joys-agile-practice-family-tradition-care-craft\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,30],"tags":[19,743,817,745],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scrum","category-software-development","tag-agile-software-development","tag-agilenyc","tag-pecha-kucha","tag-values"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/brocade-cloth-med.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}