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Position Statement
I’d like the Agile Alliance to continue to promote, and use, the values of the Agile Manifesto in everything it does.
In response to Brian Marick’s “Proposal for the refocusing of the Agile Alliance”
Whereas the main problem when the Agile Alliance was founded was making Agile a respectable choice, now the problem is that teams are not ready to execute Agile,
Although “Agile” is a respectable choice, I have seen companies where people think they have chosen “Agile”, but really what they are doing is follow a new set of rules without thinking, which work better than the previous set of rules that they used to follow, so they are better off, but not Agile.
Whereas the Agile Alliance has never successfully engaged with higher levels of management or businesspeople with major funding authority,
I have seen projects that were successful as far as everyone directly on the team were concerned, but unsuccessful from the point of view of the company – for example, unjustified re-writes of working systems, or systems that work but were much more expensive to develop than they should have been due to architectural or technological decisions that could not be changed by the people who had to work around them. I would like the Agile Alliance to continue trying to engage higher levels of management or businesspeople, to make sure that people on Agile teams are able to do the right thing.
The Alliance will fund small conferences, run by volunteers, targeted toward experienced practitioners, dedicated (in part) to advancing the practice.
I’m very much in favour of this, having run and been involved in, small practioner focused conferences myself. Rather than only funding small conferences, the Agile Alliance could also provide loans or a level of underwriting for such conferences, and infrastructure such as web site hosting.
Also:
I’m against Agile certification. If the promoters of specific methodologies would like to provide certification for their methodology then that’s up to them, but I don’t think “Agile” certification makes sense, and I don’t think the Agile Alliance should be involved with the certification of any specific methodology.
About me
For the last 8 years, I’ve been consulting, coaching and in other ways working in Agile teams, in a variety of roles; as a developer, coach, team lead and project manager.
I completed my PhD in automated refactoring in 1996, attended, and had papers at, the first three of the XP series of conferences, i.e. XP2000, XP2001 and XP2002 and the first 3 XPDay conferences in London. I’ve presented workshops and tutorials at, and been on the committees of, many other XP, Agile and object-oriented software development conferences.
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