Where Agile Gets It Wrong
Channel: Continuous Delivery
Date: 2024-01-31

Agile software development is widely misinterpreted. The values expressed in the Agile Manifesto are just as true and important to adhere to today as when they were written over 20 years ago, but in practice agile as an approach has made many missteps. One of these is the assumption that self-organising means that everyone gets a veto on every idea, but this is not sustainable in an engineering approach to software. the agile methodology is grounded in sensible pragmatic software engineering, but for that to work as a development process it must be adopted by a team and doesn’t work if every individual decides for themselves. We must find ways to evaluate ideas as a group and agree on which are good and which are bad.

In this episode, Dave Farley, author of best-selling books “Continuous Delivery”, “Modern Software Engineering” and “CD Pipelines” explores the idea that agile made a mistake by being too equivocal, and describes one technique, Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detector, that we can use to identify the bad ideas and how that applies to software.

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🖇 LINKS:

🔗 "Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit" ➡️ https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/

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📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley
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