Topic is pressure on developers, and what they can do about it.
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Adding pressure to programmers is a trick that never works.
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This, too, must be done incrementally. We call this TDD and ATDD among other names.
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So here come old Agile, he come groovin up slowly, he got expectations he one holy terror ...
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And they don’t know how. They simply can’t do it. So old Agile, he’s pretty new to the game, what does he do? He reverts to what he knows, and puts pressure on the team.
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Yeah, well, we do know the reason why: they don’t know how.
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It’s not good for the project: it goes slower than it might, and then slower still.
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It’s certainly not good for developers: it puts them under more pressure than before Agile.
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Ideally, people would live in peace and harmony.
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Still, the only way out that I see is for developers to learn these skills. They may have to do it largely on their own. There are materials out there, often pretty affordable. We need to help them find those.
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It wouldn’t be just charity, not at all. Why not?
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Agile cannot thrive without technical practice. Developers mostly don’t know the practices. For Agile to thrive, we need to help developers learn what they need to know.
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