Agile
A system of project management popular in the software development community.
Agile and the Long Crisis of Software
What is Agile? And where does it come from?
Agile™ Methods as Salvage Capitalism
Salvage capitalism is the ability for capitalist process to take advantage of non-capitalist systems and processes. Agile™ is way to structure a team to generate value.
Agile as Trauma
The Agile Manifesto is an immune response on the part of programmers to bad management. The document is an expression of trauma, and its intellectual descendants continue to carry this baggage. While the Agile era has brought about remarkable advancements in project management techniques and development tools, it remains a tactical, technical, and ultimately reactionary movement. As long as Agile remains in this position it will be liable to backfire, vulnerable to the very depredations of bad management it had initially evolved to counter.
Agility Training
Software development teams invented agile as an immune response to destroying the world and — adding insult to injury — being prevented from doing so efficiently by middle management.
A Developer Conference in Sweden
What are these teams working on?
Estimating Ambiguity
Scrum's story points rapidly turn into a game of Numberwang. What are we actually trying to do there, and can we do it without wasting everyones time?
Ways of Writing Code
There are approaches to writing code that are structurally appropriate for the task, and make it easier push beyond the boundaries of what's possible.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Agile
A collection of short texts on the theme of Agile™ software development.