I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include Dave Thomas on the word ‘agile’ being subverted, deployment freezes and outages, a parable of two programmers, the rise of small businesses in the USA and a cartoon on anecdotal evidence.<\/p>\n
1. Time to kill agile<\/a> 1. Time to kill agile<\/a> 2. Why deployment freezes do not prevent outages<\/a> 3. The parable of two programmers<\/a> 4. The rise of small businesses across America<\/a> 5. A cartoon on anecdotal evidence<\/a> I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include Dave Thomas on the word ‘agile’ being subverted, deployment freezes and outages, a parable of two programmers, the rise of small businesses in the USA and a cartoon on anecdotal evidence. 1. Time to kill agile 2. Why deployment freezes do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Why deployment freezes do not prevent outages<\/a>
\n3. The parable of two programmers<\/a>
\n4. The rise of small businesses across America<\/a>
\n5. A cartoon on anecdotal evidence<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMy notes:<\/h3>\n
\nDave Thomas, one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, thinks that the word “agile” has been subverted. I feel this so much – the adherence to some rituals and over-estimation of the power of tools in agile environments drive me crazy. On a related note, sometime ago Mike Cohn had posted his thoughts on the drawbacks of scrum<\/a>. It feels like that “agile” has hit the idiot-adoption<\/a> phase and some corrections are due very soon. <\/p>\n
\nAn excellent article on why deployment freezes do not prevent outages. At my present client, I insist on bi-weekly deploys to production. As a software tester, I think that keeps our risk low. Sure, the short term risk may seem high and the effort of rapidly testing the software seems like a grind. But the long term benefits to business are wonderful. And yes, this is counter-intuitive. Read this article to figure out why.<\/p>\n
\nI read this because it appeared on the first page of HN<\/a>. I did not particularly like the story, but I am posting here because I agree with one thing. Good software can be made when developers are not utilized at a 100% capacity. I think the biggest problem I have at my current gig is that everyone (including the developers) assume they must always be building stuff.<\/p>\n
\nI run a small business. I frequent \/r\/smallbusiness<\/a>. For me, this was a feel-good story of how craftsmen can carve their own profitable niche. <\/p>\n
\nI am so going to use this cartoon in some talk or presentation of mine. And yeah, Sunday Morning Breakfast Cereal<\/a> rocks! <\/p>\n
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