Comments on: What is Lean? And Agile? http://blog.franktrindade.com/2008/08/25/what-is-lean-and-agile/ Agile, software and some non-sense Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:41:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: O que é Lean? E Agile? « Blog Visão Ágil http://blog.franktrindade.com/2008/08/25/what-is-lean-and-agile/comment-page-1/#comment-78 O que é Lean? E Agile? « Blog Visão Ágil Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:23:30 +0000 http://franktrindade.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-78 [...] Francisco Ps: Esse post é uma tradução de um post originalmente publicado no meu blog: What is Lean? And Agile? [...] [...] Francisco Ps: Esse post é uma tradução de um post originalmente publicado no meu blog: What is Lean? And Agile? [...]

]]> By: Martin Cron http://blog.franktrindade.com/2008/08/25/what-is-lean-and-agile/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Martin Cron Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:00:23 +0000 http://franktrindade.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-42 This is why I rarely even talk about "Agile" or "Lean" anymore, I talk about concepts like transparency, lowering the cost of change, tightening feedback loops, etc. If people buy into the principles, the practices can incrementally emerge on their own or with a few well-placed nudges (such as "you know, if we could test these things in isolation, we would be more confident about making changes...") If people focus just on practices, it tends to be nothing more than a cargo-cult mess. I've seen more than a handful of Scrum teams which weren't the least bit agile. This is why I rarely even talk about “Agile” or “Lean” anymore, I talk about concepts like transparency, lowering the cost of change, tightening feedback loops, etc.

If people buy into the principles, the practices can incrementally emerge on their own or with a few well-placed nudges (such as “you know, if we could test these things in isolation, we would be more confident about making changes…”)

If people focus just on practices, it tends to be nothing more than a cargo-cult mess. I’ve seen more than a handful of Scrum teams which weren’t the least bit agile.

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