After over ten years since the Agile summit, software projects are still failing and developers are still behaving and being treated as factory workers. The software development industry is still very amateur when compared to other professions. How can we change this?
The software craftsmanship movement has been getting many followers lately. It is not the first time that a group of developers say they had enough, and it’s time for a change. Only this time, it’s different. It may be unpopular, but it needs saying: Before joining the craftsmanship crusade, people …
This video reviews the company culture model created by William Schneider and then use it to understand the Agile Manifesto, the Manifest for Software Craftsman and Kanban Principles to understand what their implied cultural bias. [youtube wIbCcfxzc2A] Video Producer: http://agilitrix.com/
With the craftsmanship movement, focus has shifted from viewing the developer as a production unit to viewing the developer as a craftsman with responsibility and individual skills. Agile can’t afford heavy processes to control developers. To be lightweight an agile process needs a structure of craftsmen that take responsibility for …
