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Newspaper production as a metaphor for software development

I have discussed the topic of metaphors for software development before (in transportation, rugby, and house construction) but there seems to be no end of authors using  the outside world to help communicate points about software development.  Today I turn to a metaphor in Becoming Agile in an imperfect world Read more…

By Chris Powell, 4 yearsOctober 23, 2021 ago
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A Misleading Agile Metaphor

In the canon of Agile metaphors, we find this model of minimum viable product (MVP) and incremental development in solving transportation needs. The model suggests that it is better to create more quickly achieved products that meet minimal elements of the overall need than it is to build directly toward Read more…

By Chris Powell, 4 yearsJune 5, 2021 ago
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