On leaders, managers and the self-organisating team - (from @analytical_mind) #agile #lean #kanban

"pair programming is one of the only effective ways that a lot of us have ever witnessed keeping average developers from pissing away 95% of their productivity engaging in non-work such as reading and writing blogs, instant messaging, personal email..."

"communication is the most important aspect of agile way, so DDD is a nice counterpart concept to TDD"

'Lightweighting'. I like that.

"WTF is it that makes everyone think they can magically figure out all of the requirements for their software before they try anything to see what works?"

Wait a minute: *don't* fire them all.