THE VIDEO SHELF · agile software development
Agile is Dead • Pragmatic Dave Thomas • GOTO 2015
Dave Thomas, a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, argues at GOTO Amsterdam 2015 that Agile as a branded industry has lost its meaning. He says agile is an adjective, not a noun, and urges developers to reclaim agility.
Why HN readers recommended it
Offered in nearly every Agile or Scrum complaint thread as the authoritative take on what agile was meant to be versus what it became.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- GOTO Conferences
- Topic
- agile software development
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 11
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Agile Is Dead: By Dave Thomas [VIDEO] I love his talks for a few reasons: Often times... 1. He's anti-hype 2. He's contriversal 3. He's right.
monksy on Hacker News · 2016-10
In Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?I highly recommend this video of a Dave Thomas talk about what agile was supposed to be vs what it has become. Most of us are probably stuck working with some sort of Agile methodology regardless of whether or not we'd like to, but it …
jrs95 on Hacker News · 2018-05
In Reality Driven Development: Fixing Project Management in SoftwareListen to one of the authors of the manifesto itself: [VIDEO] (BTW, he is very opposed to the use of Agile as a noun ;).
rimantas on Hacker News · 2016-07
In In a nutshell, why do a lot of developers dislike Agile?
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