Agile Quality: A Canary in a Coal Mine
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Ken Schwaber (www.controlchaos.com) codeveloped Scrum with Jeff Sutherland in the early 1990s. A 30-year IT veteran and an Agile Manifesto signatory, he subsequently founded the AgileAlliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to training and supporting Scrum practitioners.
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The importance of Transparency and Ethics
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Noah Campbell
I have to admit that I too find the Agile(tm) Consultants(tm) and Speakers(tm) to be a bit underwhelming in their rhetoric. Scrum as a management process is what usually draws me to these presentations and the key to this presentation is that Scrum builds in transparency into the process. That's not to say that RUP, Waterfall, etc. can have equal transparency, but short iterations do put the spotlight on potentially ugly practices...and that's the key to the this presentation. What do you do when presented with difficult decisions?
In Beck and Schwaber's words: have the courage to do the ethical thing.
Re: The importance of Transparency and Ethics
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Deborah Hartmann
Scrum as a management process is what usually draws me to these presentations and the key to this presentation is that Scrum builds in transparency into the process.Yes, this emphasis on transparency is one of the things that draws me to Scrum as well. But, as others have said, a good process cannot "fix" shoddy developers. Scrum relies on the team to bring skill and common sense into the mix.
We can add: a good process cannot hide or compensate for a lack of coaching ethics. We need good processes and good people. If forced to choose... recent experience suggests: go with the good people :-)
Re: The importance of Transparency and Ethics
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Noah Campbell
If forced to choose... recent experience suggests: go with the good people :-)
Hopefully you're never forced to choose. I think your point about going with good people as a safe bet is that someone will emerge as a leader and put a process in a place.
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