Agile Practices and Developer Autonomy

Video Timeline

• 0:31 Something has gone wrong
• 1:03 A few statements from agilemanifesto.org
• 1:54 Those statements make it obvious don't they?
• 2:13 Let's think about the business world in the 90s
• 2:36 In the 20th century, very few companies were tech startups
• 3:08 Strict bureaucracies and hierarchical command
• 3:38 Command control piecework specialization centralization
• 3:56 It was dehumanizing
• 4:20 Ideas like scrum and crystal and openagile resonated
• 4:41 Limited by the micromanaging nature of the establishment
• 4:53 Tension between transparency and scrutiny, autonomy and anarchy
• 5:28 Agile practices are designed to push authority toward the development team
• 6:12 Self-managing teams are supported, transparency is expected
• 6:37 Developers might feel watched
• 6:44 Transparency should lead to empowerment
• 7:08 Developers can feel exposed
• 7:23 Scrum might be hijacked for surveillance
• 7:44 Measure outcomes, not activity
• 7:57 Thanks