22/08/2019
Alistair Cockburn wrote this somewhere regarding Agile.
....We got together to have a discussion about what we had in common at the time and to pull our energies together. Robert Martin wanted to write a manifesto (I didn't, hah more fool me!) and we did that, agreeing that what we wrote was a snapshot in time. It happens we did good writing that day, the values and principles last well. However, the world has moved on, and what was the top discussion at the time is not what is the discussion today. I think if we got together, we might say, "Not bad for 2 days" and leave it at that (actually Dave Thomas is on record as saying he's sorry he/we wrote it, so you can see the odds of us getting him back are slim). Then we'd say, "Yeah, can't see what to add to that", because anything more than that is too specific. So ... have to wait until the next group of people find something they care enough about to write to build their own thing. In the meantime, many of us keep on saying what it is an what it isn't. (Robert Martin does, Martin Fowler does, Arie van Bennekum does, I do, James Grenning does, Ron Jeffries does, Andy Hunt does, etc). So we are saying it; but those are half a dozen voices against thousands publishing much more. The manifesto is not a corporation or profit-making machine as Scrum Alliance and Scrum.org are, so there is no "adherence" or body of enforcement. anyway long posting, but, no.
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