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It came to pass that in those days, @KentBeck said that when he defined XP, he took some good practices and turned the dials up to eleven. Looking at the Agile Manifesto, it seems to me and to @chethendrickson that folks often don't even turn the dials up to seven.
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At some point, Chet mentioned Al Smith's saying that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy, and we suspect that the cure for the evils of "Agile" would be more Real Agile™️. So what if we turned the dials to Twelve™️?
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Yesterday, I tweeted about turning self-organization up to twelve, having no identified Product Owner, and, at least implicitly, no specialists, especially controlling specialists, at all. Instead the Complete Team would decide, do, and assess everything.
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Today, let's think about the Backlog. Agile is about building working software in response to changing requirements. But a backlog often gives the team a long list of "must do", eliminating changing direction based on current understanding. And it rarely works:
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With dials to Twelve™️, we "simply" build a continuous flow of working software. With everyone on the Team, we decide all the time, what to build next. We're ready to let people use the software at all times. We deliver continuously:
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Because we're delivering real working software continuously, we have concrete facts upon which to base our planning and reporting. Every stakeholder can know exactly where we are, all the time. This puts us in the best possible position to reduce undesirable pressure.
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Will turning the dials up to Twelve™️ cure all the ills of humanity? Certainly not. And it won't be easy to do, and some of us will never see that Promised Land.
But we think it's the right direction to head, given what we've learned so far.
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But we think it's the right direction to head, given what we've learned so far.
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