http://pliantalliance.org Think. Evaluate. Change. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:09:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en cdsmith has a good post on TDD specifically and any software technique/process where he discusses the tendency for some to convince themselves and others that a particularly popular technique/process is worth the effort (even though it may not be) by changing company policy to indicate they should have been doing ... http://pliantalliance.org/2007/10/01/the-hard-way-is-better-for-us/ I was pointed towards this talk given by Joe Rainsberger at the Agile 2007 conference a few weeks ago. The handout sums it up pretty well. Rainsberger is an experienced Agile coach and admitted Agile zealot. Given his good list of mistake examples, one is left ... http://pliantalliance.org/2007/09/04/agile-failures/ I'm currently looking for a new contract and every time I see a job ad with the word "Agile" in it, I'm faced with a conundrum. I don't really know what it means and as a result I'm not sure if I actually have Agile experience. I ... http://pliantalliance.org/2007/08/17/what-the-heck-does-agile-mean-anyway/ Brian Marick has been elected chair of the Agile Alliance and has an interesting proposal. I'm not really concerned with the actual proposal, since frankly, I think it is too late to de-hijack 'Agile' and anything they do will be for naught. What really interests me is ... http://pliantalliance.org/2007/05/23/saving-agile/ What a great post, by an as yet unnamed (I couldn't locate a name on the blog) software developer realizing that there are people moving on from Agile and he or she is not alone in identifying the "dogma drenched blather of Agilism". From the blog: The bottom line is that Agilism ... http://pliantalliance.org/2007/05/18/seeing-the-light/ JK has written a post-agilism faq which explains well all the things those of us moving past Agile have been talking about over the last couple of years. Post-agilism to me is the more general description for what I did in founding the pliantalliance.org. I moved past Agile ... http://pliantalliance.org/2007/04/30/the-post-agilism-faq/ I'm not sure everyone actually gets the point of view those of us talking about pliant software development and post-agilism and the like are coming from. We aren't starting a movement, we are describing one. We aren't trying to change peoples' minds, we are trying to get ... http://pliantalliance.org/2007/04/23/people-still-dont-get-it/ Now that the March issue of Better Software Magazine is long out the door, I can post the pdf of the article I wrote for that issue.. The content was heavily based on some posts on this blog and the opportunity was a direct result of JK finding this ... http://pliantalliance.org/2007/04/18/better-software/ I love it when luminaries in the industry start questioning things. JK passed this one on to me this morning. In the post, Alistair Cockburn describes how he facilitated a work session without yellow sticky notes *gasp*. He used mind-map software instead and apparently it worked great. He ... http://pliantalliance.org/2007/03/20/76/ It has been the policy of the Pliant Alliance to not recommend (or decry) any one particular technique or process to the world. We can't possibly know enough about what others are doing, how they are doing it, the projects they are working on, the people they are working ... http://pliantalliance.org/2007/03/03/real-advice/