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Title: Fear and loathing on the agile trail
Proposer: seb_rose
Type: Workshop/Tutorial
Duration: 90 minutes
Description: Many people may be familiar with the 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'
book (Hunter S. Thompson) and film (Johnny Depp/Terry Gilliam). Less
well-known is a collection of his articles that cover the collapse of
the Democratic party during the 1972 US presidential campaign, 'Fear
and Loathing on the Campaign Trail'. This session, without recourse to
Hunter Thompson's excesses or Ralph Steadman's illustrations, will
make the case that agile, despite a unifying manifesto, has
conflicting interpretations and implementations that undermine the
concept of agility. We will examine agile adoption from first
principles to develop an understanding of why many agile teams aren't
deriving the benefits they hoped for, and why many Agile teams are
not, in fact, agile.
Using an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure style storyline, based
on real-life experiences from many teams, this session explores common
anti-patterns experienced by new and experienced agile teams. In each
phase of the adventure we will learn how to recognise mis-application
of an agile principle or practice, what forces might be causing this,
and some interventions that can be helpful in overcoming them.
Since so many of the issues faced by teams are context dependent, we
will use input from the attendees to frame the story throughout the
session. Even though the resulting context may not apply directly to
the attendee's teams, the storyline will provide a useful tool to take
away and use to gain insights into specific agile environments.
Ewan: YES. i think this is the one to go for from Seb.
Roger: Yes. (It is a different emphasis from “Bad test, good test” so needn't be restricted to only one of Seb's)
Asti: absolutely a Yes
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