{"id":508,"date":"2006-12-05T14:13:50","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T20:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/wp\/?p=508"},"modified":"2006-12-05T14:13:50","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T20:13:50","slug":"the-smells-of-agile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/12\/05\/the-smells-of-agile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smells of Agile"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"Agile<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b> there are two papers in this series: “What Does Agile Smell Like?”<\/a> and “Agile QA Automation.”<\/a><\/p>\n

As mentioned a little while back<\/a>, I have 3 short notes on Agile I’ve been working on. The first, “What Does Agile Smell Like?”<\/a> goes over a list of several “gut checks” you can do to get a sense for how Agile an organization is.<\/p>\n

9 Smells<\/h2>\n

For those who don’t want to download the PDF, here are the sniff tests, without the rest of explanation:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. An Agile organization develops iteratively, verifying that the
    \nsoftware is going in the right direction at the end of each
    \niteration.<\/li>\n
  2. An Agile organization has very flat and open communications
    \npaths.<\/li>\n
  3. An Agile organization arranges it’s work to be done in
    \nprioritized queues, allowing the ordering and content to
    \nchange over time as required by the business needs.<\/li>\n
  4. An Agile organization values putting off a decision for as long
    \nas possible, but, still makes many decisions.<\/li>\n
  5. Agile developers tend to check in smaller, but still operational,
    \nbatches of code rather than larger, feature complete batches.<\/li>\n
  6. An Agile organization runs a large amount of tests on a daily, if not hourly basis.<\/li>\n
  7. An Agile organization builds and tests it’s software at least
    \ndaily, fixing broken builds rapidly.<\/li>\n
  8. An Agile organization values frequent communication over
    \ncomprehensive documentation.<\/li>\n
  9. An Agile organization operates on trust, respect, and
    \ndelegation instead of command and control.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I guess 10 would have been a rounder number, but I wasn’t counting at the time.<\/p>\n

    Further Revisions<\/h2>\n

    As you know, dear readers, we like to practice open analysis, so if you see something missing, or bogus, just tell me<\/a> or leave a comment, and we’ll probably put it in the next revision of the note.<\/p>\n

    Get It!<\/h2>\n

    The note is available for here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    <\/p>\n

    Technorati Tags: intuition<\/a>, pdf<\/a>, peopleware<\/a>, projectmanagement<\/a>, smells<\/a>, testing<\/a><\/p>\n

    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Two papers on benchmarking Agile in your organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile","category-programming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}