Developer Abuse

Here is another video that talks about why we do Agile. These two (this one and the one just posted) were the top two vote getters (from a perhaps somewhat biased large audience) at the Agile 2007 conference.

It’s a bit serious, I think.
Perhaps a bit overdrawn, but I do think developers have a better life with Agile.

My view is that in Agile, we are trying to make everyone’s life better: customers, managers, team members, business guys, end-users, our own families. One would hope, that after all those people are helped, that society more generally would be better.

Some video resources

Lachlan Heasman posted a comment to another post, reminding me of some great video resources. For now, I’ll just mention the two he reminded me of. There are earlier posts with other videos.

1. Ken Schwaber talking about Scrum at Google (about 1 hour). As I commented to Ken, good for lots of companies to know that Google is using Scrum. Might make them question that (current) waterfall ways. See here.

2. The Scrum Masters (second joint production): The Dysfunctional Daily Scrum (aka stand-up). These are some great coaches (and proud to call them friends, as well) having fun pretending to do a daily scrum the wrong way. See the video here.

Three Google/Agile videos

Google is doing Agile, and four people have come to talk at the Googleplex about Agile. (Maybe more.)

One is Ken Schwaber, who talked to them for about an hour, mostly about Scrum. The excellent video of his talk is here. The nuances of Scrum become clearer when you hear Ken explain it. His website is here.

Esther Derby and Diana Larsen also visited the Googleplex. Their talk about Agile Retrospectives is here. I am a fan. Of Agile Retrospectives (the activity and their book). And of Esther and Diana.
See also their blogs here and here.

Again, Jeff Sutherland spoke at the Googleplex. His talk on Scrum tuning is here. Also highly recommended. His blog is here.