5. Don't do agile, be agile | Co-author of Agile Manifesto and Pragmatic Programmer | Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer and Agile Manifesto, on the true spirit of being agile (vs. "doing agile"), mistakes engineering teams make, and common practices of successful teams.

Chapters

• 10:29 - The genesis of The Pragmatic Programmer
• 11:41 - People don't know what they want, importance of feedback loops
• 22:17 - Doing Agile vs. being agile
• 26:36 - Practices of successful engineering teams
• 36:35 - Being pragmatic at an early stage startup
• 44:10 - Things that are still true 24 years after the book was published
• 55:25 - How does a book define its author's identity?

Show notes

• The Pragmatic Programmer
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf
• The Agile Manifesto

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