If you ask most people new to Agile (yes, there are still some of those around), and especially if they’ve been slogging it out in the trenches of long, grueling projects…and especially in the public sector arena, you’ll get an almost universal reaction: “Hell yeah! No more f—-ing process!” And it’s kinda understandable, because process […]
It’s like Viagra for flaccid agile security
Some years ago, one of the founding fathers of the Agile Manifesto, Andy Hunt, wrote about how the Agile movement had sort of lost its way. One of the reasons he cited was the proliferation of a disease he called “flaccid agile”. Flaccid agile is where you cherry-pick some of the principles and practices you […]
Yeah, baby! We’re Agile now!
Oh really? How do you know you’re “agile”? Well, step 1 is that you have to figure out why you want to be “agile” in the first place. And “because it’s kool, man!” or “because everyone’s doin’ it, dude!” aren’t acceptable answers. Now, if you’re one of the original 17 authors of the Agile Manifesto, […]
