{"id":391,"date":"2024-04-22T10:44:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T09:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/?p=391"},"modified":"2024-04-29T10:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T09:46:13","slug":"being-agile-not-certified-agile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/2024\/04\/22\/being-agile-not-certified-agile\/","title":{"rendered":"Being agile, not certified Agile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve never done any formal agile training, and I don’t intend to start now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth is, agile training just wasn’t around when I started out in the 2000’s. Instead, I worked in a development team that embraced Extreme Programming<\/a> by following the rules and practising the values, and later on, I used to literally carry around a printed copy of the Scrum Guide<\/a> and spend my spare time reading Jeff Sutherland’s Scrum Papers<\/a>. Lots of experimentation happened along the way, not all successful. But it was a thoroughly exciting time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to 2019, and I actually wrote a blog post about the day I removed agile from my CV<\/a>; however, that was largely a reactionary statement to the blossoming certification mill ie. the proliferation of one or two-day bootcamps with a trivial multiple-choice exam to become a ‘certified’ Scrum Master or Product Owner. Setting aside that market perversion, the benefits of agile are still very clear to me, and alive and well in my \u2764\ufe0f today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Better Software UK<\/a>, my software requirements business is flourishing, but you won’t hear me mention ‘agile’ very much, nor embed Scrum and coach agile teams like I used to. Rather, clients quickly see sense in using high-level epics for direction setting and roadmap planning, whilst all other detail is deferred until the last possible moment and provided only to the extent that developers require it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything else comes naturally in good time, and we learn together by doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve never done any formal agile training, and I don’t intend to start now. The truth is, agile training just wasn’t around when I started out in the 2000’s. Instead, I worked in a development team that embraced Extreme Programming by following the rules and practising the values, and later on, I used to literally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-requirements","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}