New dogs, old tricks

While a love of or enthusiasm about new things is part of human nature, the rampant neophilia (a strong affinity for novelty) that grips the agile industry, media, and younger generations, often causes them to reject all that has been learnt in the past, to "throw the baby out with the bathwater". Practices that were once regarded as essential are now forgotten, and lessons learned have become lessons lost.

We often see all that came before 1995 as “waterfall” and practices from methods such as eXtreme Programming as being old-fashioned and no longer of use. An attitude that all too often proves Santayana's statement that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Perhaps it’s time to step back and reflect. In this meetup, we will explore our agile past to help the agilists of today create the agile of tomorrow.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Steve Freeman was a pioneer of the Agile movement in the UK and a co-chair of the first London XpDay. He’s co-author of Growing Object-Oriented Software, a standard text on iterative software development. Steve spends most of his time helping teams to deliver better, and still likes to code.

Joseph Pelrine is an experienced psychologist and Agilist with an excellent track record in helping companies improve by optimizing the way they work.

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock is best known as the design geek who invented Responsibility-Driven Design and the xDriven meme (think TDD, BDD, DDD..). She's keen on discovering and sharing heuristics, patterns, and practices for reducing risk and sustaining ongoing agile development.

AGENDA
18:00-18:05: Joining the call and settling in
18:05-18:10: Introductions
18:10-19:15: The Talk + Q&A

IMPORTANT NOTES

• I will begin admitting people into the call at 18:00.
  Before that, you will be on a waitlist to enter
• Please ensure you're muted at all times to minimise disturbance.
• If you would like to ask a question during the talk, use the Chat system.

You can find the recording of this event and all other Essence for Agility events on this LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/essence-agility-ivar-jacobson/