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Transparency: A Great Leap Forward or Exposed Artery?
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Kent Beck, Keith Braithwaite, Steve Freeman, Chris Matts and John Nolan
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Apr 16, 2009
Length 00:59:37
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- Agile
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Summary
Agile propagandists make great claims about the advantages of being transparent about the state of their projects. They claim that this how mature relationships work and that "Honesty is the best policy". But is this true? Many of us work in dysfunctional organisations where honesty is the best way to get cheated. Surely Transparency is just not pragmatic?
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Kent Beck, Keith Braithwaite, Steve Freeman, Chris Matts and John Nolan
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.
Agile propagandists make great claims about the advantages of being transparent about the state of their projects. They claim that this how mature relationships work and that "Honesty is the best policy". But is this true? Many of us work in dysfunctional organisations where honesty is the best way to get cheated. Surely Transparency is just not pragmatic?
Bio
Kent Beck, Keith Braithwaite, Steve Freeman, Chris Matts and John Nolan
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.
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"Agile propagandists"? WTF?
I haven't checked out the presentation yet so I might be missing something, but I would think that we're a little beyond name-calling by now. Perhaps I'm naive (or possible a closet "propagandist"), but I find that term rather offensive.
Dave Rooney
Mayford Technologies -
Hi Dave :)
This is directly from the presentation abstract. Given that the panel is full of the so-called propagandists, it was meant to be a little self-mocking and in jest.
Amr -
DAMMIT!! How do you expect me to be reactionary and uninformed?! Can't a guy just tee off without having to watch a bloody presentation?! :)
Sheepishly,
Dave Rooney
Mayford Technologies -
Panel member here.
I paraphrase Sheryl Ross's characterisation of "propaganda" as communication with the intent to persuade a group of people to favour one set of idea over certain others. She contends that the purely negative sense of the word is too narrow.
I'm a consultant, and if Weinberg is right that consulting is influencing others at their request, then propaganda is my job. -
I think, "we the agile propagandists", underestimate the extent of mindset change required by "non-agilists" to adopt agile. I have highlighted some of the key issues here - setandbma.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/agile-adoption/
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