{"id":301,"date":"2008-01-19T22:23:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T02:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/2008\/01\/19\/agile-or-else\/"},"modified":"2010-09-06T06:26:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T10:26:53","slug":"agile-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/agile-or-else\/","title":{"rendered":"[agile] or Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/corkboard.png\" alt='Cork Board by kjudy' \/><a href=\"http:\/\/scrum.jeffsutherland.com\/\">Jeff Sutherland<\/a> said he was finding more developers who will only work in agile software development teams.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that to his estimation about 10% of shops that claim to be practicing Scrum pass the <a href=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/if-it-aint-this-it-aint-scrum\/\">Nokia test<\/a> and have self-organized teams, product backlogs prioritized by a product owner and estimated by developers. <\/p>\n<p>And that doesn&#8217;t even speak to refactoring, test driven development, pairing, continuous integration, built in quality, acceptance testing, etc.<\/p>\n<p>And that doesn&#8217;t speak to knowledge creation and sharing practices across the entire organization, clarity of vision, understanding competitors, collaborating with customers, continuous improvement, and embrace of change.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come to understand that agile values place demands on development, management and business practices. <\/p>\n<p>Two questions arise from this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Would you only work in an [agile] shop?<\/li>\n<li>What do you mean by [agile]?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>for [agile] feel free to substitute: Lean, XP, Scrum, XP\/Scrum, Crystal, Adaptive, etc. etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Sutherland said he was finding more developers who will only work in agile software development teams. He also said that to his estimation about 10% of shops that claim to be practicing Scrum pass the Nokia test and have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/agile-or-else\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303,"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":[14],"tags":[19,117,133,463,22],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","tag-agile-software-development","tag-jeff-sutherland","tag-product-owner","tag-software-development-teams","tag-xp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/corkboard.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}