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As the title of Kent Beck’s book “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change” highlights, change is at the heart in Agile software development.   Agile techniques like XP and SCRUM focus on the people and how those people interact when they develop software rather than pre-scribing how this interaction will occur.  This is done ...

As promised, but somewhat later than I was expecting to write this blog, I intend to answer some issues that Kevin Brady raised in his article Agile/Scrum does not get to grips with human psychology, namely:People will always put their own interests ahead of the interests of the group. People are self-interested Karl Popper’s ...

General Eisenhower said that "The plan is useless; it's the planning that's important." How I understand this quote is that the General knew that even with all the planning he participated in, some people would end up on the wrong beaches, there would be a loss of some critical supplies, and many soldiers would face ...

I recently read the following article by Kevin Brady on Agile/Scrum does not get to grips with human psychology.  The core theme of this article was that Agile forgets the human factor, specifically People will always put their own interests ahead of the interests of the group. People are self-interested Commercial production decisions are ...