http://geekswithblogs.net/geekusconlivus/category/7348.aspx A management friendly flavor of "Agile Development" that is rapidly gaining dominance. en-US Malcolm Anderson malcolm.b.anderson@gmail.com Subtext Version 0.0.0.0 http://geekswithblogs.net/geekusconlivus/archive/2008/08/08/124321.aspx <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> <meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId" /> <meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator" /> <meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator" /> <link href="file:///D:\DOCUME~1\MALCOL~1.AND\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables /> <w:SnapToGridInCell /> <w:WrapTextWithPunct /> <w:UseAsianBreakRules /> <w:DontGrowAutofit /> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style type="text/css"><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Book Antiqua"; 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font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I know that this book has been passed around in the Scrum Master community for the last 3 years, and probably the general agile development community before that.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What does a book about the Marine Corps have to do with agile software development?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">You may be surprised.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">My personal favorite is <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">13. <strong>Manage by end state and intent.</strong> [p98] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Tell people what needs to be accomplished and why, and leave details to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What is yours?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6cda6ad746d942b9a1110d0715a4fa12&u=124321"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6cda6ad746d942b9a1110d0715a4fa12&u=124321" border="0"/></a></p><iframe src="http://ads.geekswithblogs.net/a.aspx?ZoneID=5&amp;Task=Get&amp;PageID=31016&amp;SiteID=1" width=1 height=1 Marginwidth=0 Marginheight=0 Hspace=0 Vspace=0 Frameborder=0 Scrolling=No> <script language='javascript1.1' src="http://ads.geekswithblogs.net/a.aspx?ZoneID=5&amp;Task=Get&amp;Browser=NETSCAPE4&amp;NoCache=True&PageID=31016&amp;SiteID=1"></script> <noscript><a href="http://ads.geekswithblogs.net/a.aspx?ZoneID=5&amp;Task=Click&amp;Mode=HTML&amp;SiteID=1&amp;PageID=31016" target="_blank"> <img src="http://ads.geekswithblogs.net/a.aspx?ZoneID=5&amp;Task=Get&amp;Mode=HTML&amp;SiteID=1&amp;PageID=31016" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""></a> </noscript> </iframe> <img src="http://geekswithblogs.net/geekusconlivus/aggbug/124321.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Malcolm Anderson http://geekswithblogs.net/geekusconlivus/archive/2008/08/08/124321.aspx Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:22:07 GMT http://geekswithblogs.net/geekusconlivus/comments/124321.aspx http://geekswithblogs.net/geekusconlivus/archive/2008/08/08/124321.aspx#feedback 1 http://geekswithblogs.net/geekusconlivus/comments/commentRss/124321.aspx http://geekswithblogs.net/geekusconlivus/services/trackbacks/124321.aspx