Dave Thomas Coming On Board
Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic Programmers did an interview on the Agile Toolkit Podcast last month which contained some decidely pliant sentiments. He talks about how he is “pulling back away from the individual agile methodologies.” While he still believes in agility, he thinks some of the implementations of agility are “scary” and “dogmatic”.
When people like Dave Thomas are saying stuff like the following, you know there is something going on.
“It’s kinda like ‘My way or you’re not doing it properly’. A lot of blackmail. A lot of absolutes. And to me that is not what agility is all about, so I pull back from that. I don’t want to be associated with that.”
- Dave Thomas, May 4, 2006
on June 8th, 2006 at 10:45 am
I agree. I think it’s great to be able to say that you are pragmatic. Pragmatists don’t subscribe to a single development process.
on June 17th, 2006 at 7:03 am
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on June 23rd, 2006 at 3:12 am
post-agilism…
Recently more and more people are reporting unease at what appears to be the entrenched dogmatism of Agile (with a capital ‘a’)…
on June 23rd, 2006 at 11:36 am
[...] This is the kind of post that I think does agile thinking a service, especially with some of the backlash to agile that I’ve been noticing. Most of that seems to be too much chopping away at the trees without seeing the forest, and the forest is big enough now that it’s not going to die. Whatever the word “agile” becomes or comes to connote, the practices and mindset that it let loose on the software world are the seeds that are making lots of new skills grow. The field of software development is so young, based on how much of what’s been learned actually gets applied, that we have lots of growing yet to do. I don’t anticipate being bored with this work any time soon. [...]