What is "Agile"?
Most of agile is about delivering sooner and a lot more often, so that you can incorporate the client's desires and feedback into your daily work.
The rest is about how to make that sustainable for development teams.
Is It My Fault You Can't Handle The Truth?
You can't handle it! In 2018 or 2019, I was introduced to the idea of hyper-rationality. I think it was under another name (to be given shortly) and as part of a presentation by George Dinwiddie on, of all things, estimation. It was a funny place to be introduced to ideas from psychology and family therapy, as well as organizational psychology and collaboration, but there it is. It is nice to be smart. It's extra nice to be right. It is wonderfully nice to be right, smart, rational, and helpful to others. Sometimes we put too much emphasis on being right and forget to be helpful. Hyper-rationality is a state of being excessively or inordinately rational. It is a belief in rational truth as an unassailable fortress, that being correct is all that matters. For instance, consider the sentiment that if I am right or I am telling the truth then you have no right to be offended or upset. It might feel right, but it sounds wrong. When people are acting hyper-ra...
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