[FRIAM] organizations

[Marcus Daniels]

Two groups that start with the premise that the whole (a team) is more than the sum of its parts and will FOREVER advocate social collaboration tools and behavioral guidelines ad nauseam to make sure that the social but otherwise ordinary team members will always be able to delay coherent technical planning, or (worse!) edgy debates where any proposition could be shown to be poorly motivated or false.

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] organizations

I dunno, you think there's a connection between diversity/intersectionality and agile design?  They always harp on hearing the quiet voice that's telling the important truth.  Seems like agile's main point is that the clients really want something much simpler than they can be talked into, but you have to convince all the coders that that is true, or else they'll build, or fail to build, something much more complicated than necessary.  So you organize as a team of lemmings and crowd source the design to death.

When life gives you lemmings, scrum.  (Life is usually going to give you lemmings.)

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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:11 AM, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com<mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>> wrote:
“It's fun, too, to wander around github figuring out who 18F is, what they do, and why they might make an issue of how they want to work together with each other and their clients.”

Heh. I think a bot generated their pages from a dictionary of agile-speak.

Marcus

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