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The problem—and the reason for this book—is that during the explosion of Agile development, and then of Lean software and DevOps, later adopters missed the importance of human interaction.
Douglas Squirrel • Agile Conversations: Transform Your Conversations, Transform Your Culture
As we’re about to illustrate in the following sections, the early proponents in each movement implicitly espoused two fundamental values, transparency and curiosity, which led them to advocate methods that developed some or all of our five key attributes of successful software teams: high trust, low fear, understanding why, making commitments, and
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For more on the large-batch death spiral, see The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen: http://bit.ly/pdflow
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Our program manager, Kim Vorrath, organized this important meeting, and she circulated a plan for a demo that called for all the keyboard derby participants to build their prototypes into a common program, one that would make it easier for Scott to jump from one software prototype to the next without a custom procedure to cue up each entrant.
Ken Kocienda • Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
In 2001 a group of computer programmers published a manifesto announcing a way of working called Agile. Within the Agile framework, one of the most popular
Amy Whitaker • Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
However, we should not be optimizing for the rate at which we declare things “done” in isolation on a branch. We should optimize for the overall lead time — the time it takes us to deliver valuable software to users. Optimizing for “dev complete” time is precisely what causes “integration hell.” A painful and unpredictable “last mile” of integratio
... See moreJez Humble, Joanne Molesky, • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
[DL99] Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Dorset House, New York, NY, second edition, 1999.