Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference and get the opportunity to sit down with Dave Thomas, signatory to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and have a great discussion about:

• Dave’s talk “Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility)“
• Agile as a word has become meaningless, don’t follow the off-the-shelf processes, apply small corrections to move forward
• Story of Stone Soup is like Agile consultancies, the hard work is done by the companies
• Scrum is a good starting point due to its simplicity
• Raccoon is a noun, so not a good replacement name for Agile, because you can buy a pound of it
• 1,000 working on one thing can never be Agile, you have to make enterprises agile before you can run an agile project
• The values in the Agile Manifesto hold up well, would have been nice to have had more diversity, had no expectation they were going to create something so significant
• The Agile Manifesto was a reaction to the problems in development at the time, maybe something new is required, it would be a tragic mistake to create Agile Manifesto 2.0, we need to ask what is more relevant today to express our frustrations
• Agile is a fundamental way of thinking about doing stuff, that’s why it’s important to understand why we are doing it
• “The Pragmatic Programmer” started as a set of field notes and somehow became a book that still sells well today despite some of the dated examples  and it invented terms like DRY (don’t repeat yourself)
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf was accidental by saying the dreaded words “how hard could this be”, the strength is knowing nothing about publishing, everything was automated unlike traditional publishers and still runs with 2 main employees, now storyboard books like a movie as the reader is on a learning journey
• Ruby has a future, but it needs to distinguish itself as a fantastic general purpose programming language, the community is still very friendly and innovative
• The emphasis and dogma around testing is off-putting, the amount of effort around many tests are not moving people forward

TheAgileRevolution-119 (40 minutes)