Dave Laribee

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• Doctors We Ain't

  Time for a little bit of a rant. In a recent post , Jeffery Palermo paraphrases an analogy made by David Platt on a recent episode of the .NET Rocks podcast : In software, we can't expect our clients to know what they need. Much like the depth of... Posted Jul 10 2008, 11:32 AM by Dave Laribee with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, DDD, management, opinion, user stories

• "Agile Shop"

  The term just reeks of steady state management. I find the idea of an "Agile shop" or an "Agile team" is a little misleading and misses the point. What we want is an "Agile organization." The main feature of Agility, to me... Posted Jun 26 2008, 10:20 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, lean, management, organizations

• Die, Chicken. Die!

  The "in breakfast there are chickens and there are pigs" analogy is a popular one in Agile circles. It refers to the idea that in a given project there are people who are fully committed (pigs, developers) and people those who are merely invested... Posted Jan 23 2008, 12:01 AM by Dave Laribee with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Featured, Leadership, management, Scrum, teams, XP