Interesting Links for 20-05-2018

[andrewducker]

This is the very opposite of my experience with Scrum/Agile. Comes across as both needy and arrogant, and I'd hate to have to work with the person who wrote it.

(tags: development software agile programming )

Estonia To Become The World’s First Free Public Transport Nation

(tags: transport Estonia )

The theocratic democracies of Iran and the UK

(tags: religion iran uk politics government )

Why do LGBT LDs get so annoyed when people say the Lib Dems "acheived equal marriage"?

(tags: libdem marriage lgbt )

Five whys and the cult of the root cause.

(tags: process philosophy learning )

Tomorrow's cities: The park with four seasons under one roof

(tags: cities thefuture nature environment )

Targeting job ads at the CEO of the company you want to work for

(tags: advertising jobs )

The prime minister is boiling the Brexiteer frogs: the water is getting hotter and none of them has jumped out of the pan

(tags: UK europe )

Evidence that drinking baking soda can promote an anti-inflammatory environment

(tags: inflammation )

Tories take four-point lead over Labour in latest survey

(tags: politics polls Labour Conservatives )

The cold war nuclear bomb warmed by chickens

(tags: history nuclearweapons chicken )

Comments

[coth]

That Agile article was interesting. He has clearly identified some of the failure modes available to the method. While also clearly exposing his own worries and lack of experience.

[skington]

Could you clarify this please? Which criticisms are due to lack of experience with agile / scrum?

[coth]

Not lack of experience with Agile/Scrum, but lack of more general experience. The article describes various types of management/organisational disfunction and attributes them to Agile/Scrum, but you could perfectly well demonstrate those disfunctions via other means.

(I've never worked on an Agile team, but have been around to participate in and watch systems development via a variety of methods for a good many years.)