Agile
topic on 6 shows · 9 statements across 8 episodes
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9 statements about Agile, every show
Pichai: Google is partnering with Boston Dynamics and Agile on robotics
“And we are partnering, ah, back in an ironic way with Boston Dynamics and Agile and a few other companies and in a determined way, making progress.”
Struppelhoff: Agile Often Worsens the Software Engineering Documentation Problem
“Documentation has always been a massive problem in the software engineering space. You know, agile comes in. People think that means you don't have to document things. True agile practitioners, scrum, scrum bond, they know documentation is important. They figu…”
Udezue: Product and business lack a unifying abstraction like Agile or Design Thinking
“So the product and business layer, what is our abstraction? What is our crucible for organizing our work? We don't even have one. We don't have a name for it. And so the idea of a part system is that there's an abstraction above agile and design thinking that …”
Stalk: Agile development is time-based factory competition applied to code
“In fact, the whole agile thing that's going on is very much of a version of time-based competition at the factory translated to software.”
Perri: Product teams should abandon dogmatic Agile and Scrum when unhelpful
“Try to tell teams that, you know, started with scrum or started with some of these more dogmatic processes. It doesn't serve you. Move on, change it, right? Everything's meant to be iterated on. Everything's meant to be adapted. If it does not work for you do …”
Druckman: Scrum requires incorporating stakeholder feedback before starting subsequent sprints
“At the beginning of the iteration, the team doing the work is going to make a commitment to have working product done by the end of that first sprint. So they make that commitment and then they build the working product. And at the end of the sprint, they shar…”
Palan: Lean startup and agile frameworks prioritize fast iteration over actual strategy
“A lot of the kind of lean startup thinking is actually just like iterate quickly, right? Like the agile just iterate quickly, quickly, quickly. There's not much about strategy. It's much about high volume, you know, of tests.”
Humble: Agile hits a brick wall in large, complex organizations
“If you're working in a large, complex organization, Agile's going to hit a brick wall, because unlike the things we were building in the sixties, product development means that things are changing and evolving all the time.”
Forsgren: Agile methodology does not scale without IT operations support
“Agile doesn't scale, and sometimes I'll say this and people shoot laser beams out of their eyes, but when we think about it, Agile was meant for development. Just like Jez said, it speeds up development, but then you have to hand it over and especially infrast…”