Ship It! LIVEShip It! LIVE
home about services writing contact

We develop, test, and create fine software products, and design creative solutions to your problems.
The development of software is an intrinsically creative process. We are dedicated to improving our mastery of the art.
Links · RSS Feed
Popular Pages

Even though our group was already following many of the practices outlined in Ship It!, I believe the book paid for itself within the first day of purchase. When one considers the burn rate of a ty...
-Steve Mitchell
Jared Richardson’s talk titled “Build Teams, not Products,” in particular, was one of the best presentations I’ve ever witnessed. It was just one of those talks where all the points seem tautologic...
-Yev Bronshteyn
It's rare to have this much fun reading a book about software. The ideas are smart, relevant, and fundamental. I can be a better programmer today because of the things I read today.
-Joe Fair

You Might Be An Agile Redneck If ... (Aug 29)
I saw a retweeted Twitter entry from a user named Agile Redneck, and I'd listened to way too much of XM Radio's comedy station Blue Collar Comedy. And I was inspired. Between conferences and clients, we've all seen a lot of insane "Agile" teams. So I started twittering a few. Then a few more. I finally decided to turn this into a blog entry.

Please don't let it stop here though... post your own. :) I have no idea who started the Agile Redneck account, but let's help them out with the crazy stuff we've seen too.

  • If you have your daily standups once a week, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you think Agile is a synonym for XP or Scrum (or both!), you might be an Agile redneck
  • If your "continous integration" system requires you to push a button, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you don't know what work your pairing partner has been doing all day, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you said "That's not my job" last week, you might an Agile redneck
  • If your Agile team has more people on it than a baseball team, you might be an Agile Redneck
  • If you've ever kept developers away from your customers on purpose, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you claim to be Agile, but have never heard of Martin Fowler, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you think you're Agile, but have never even read the Agile Manifesto, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you turned off your continuous integration system because the frequent failures distracted the team, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you're "Agile", but you don't write automated tests because you think they'll slow you down, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you move the end date of your "fixed length" iterations to be get all of the work done, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you haven't "gone Agile" because you haven't been able to buy the right vendor's tool, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you've even used Agility as a tool to hide your work from your manager or co-workers, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you've even said "Don't code that. We don't need until later this week. YAGNI!", you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you think any Agile topic can be mastered in a two day class, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you think nothing useful can be learned in a two day class, you might also be an Agile redneck
  • If you think using any single Agile practice makes your team "Agile", you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you think any single book, author, or movement is the definitive source of agile knowledge, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you've ever pulled your tests out of your continuous integration system so the builds wouldn't break so often, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you think the Enterprise Agile Manifesto is right, you might be an Agile redneck
  • If you think your flavor of Agile is better than anyone else's, then you're definitely an Agile redneck
  • If you blame your continuous integration server or source code management system when your last code check in doesn't compile, you might be an Agile redneck

I'll try to do another round if time permits. These things are just fun to write! Track the topic on Twitter and you might see more of them popping out.

Enjoy!

Category: Agile


© 2007 Agile Artisans.