Part 1 of 4: Introducing Thesis Four By J. John Steele As I’ve mentioned before, many of the Denver Method’s Theses reflect adamantly held values, rules, and maxims that guide my life – my Weltanshauung. A splendid example of this is Thesis Three, the Aegis’ “Code of Conduct,” which speaks to the need to put …
By J. John Steele I argued in a previous blog that the first of the twelve “Principles behind the Agile Manifesto” misses the mark in naming the highest priority of Agile practitioners. In truth, it doesn’t just miss the mark, it misses the target. As a refresher, the principle reads: Our highest priority is to …
I didn’t set out to break the rules; at least not all of them. I just found certain popular Agile practices seemed to limit performance or reduce flexibility, so I wanted to try something different. When the team discovered significant improvement resulted from the first few changes, we decided to make all the rules optional. …
In The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, published in 1975, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. shared lessons he learned from the massive project he led to build the OS/360 operating system for IBM’s System/360 mainframe computers. IBM bet its future on the System/360 in the early 1960’s, and the bet eventually paid off as a …
