The Dehumanisation of Agile and Objects • James Coplien • GOTO 2017
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Berlin 2017. #GOTOcon #GOTOber
ABSTRACT
It can easily be argued that agile grew out of the spirit of object orientation: its focus on change, on anthropomorphism, and on people. Alan Kay saw objects as a way for people to connect with their environments through their machines. As late as the 1980s people were still talking about anthropomorphic [...]
TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
02:10 A Family Tree
06:09 The Agile Manifesto
16:29 Genetic Epistemology
19:18 Where have objects gone wrong?
30:14 Where has Agile gone wrong?
32:48 Agile has lost its roots
34:50 and the good parts are little understood
38:47 The Common Enemies
40:22 Restoring Focus
46:23 Elusive lands over the horizon
46:52 Organizational Learning Models
47:30 Failure to Dream
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James Coplien - Lean/Agile Process & Architecture Coach; Founder of the Pasteur Organizational Patterns Project @jamescoplien5257