How to explain to your girlfriend…
July 17th, 2009
Sometimes you have to explain someone what agile means, you start talking but the other person seems to misunderstand every word you said. So how do you explain agile culture to this person?
I’m going to tell you what happened to me last night…
There are 8.45 pm, I arrived to my boyfriend home hoping that he has bought something for dinner. Fortunately he had! He was craving to eat chicken with Champignons’ sauce, easy to prepare if you have the right things…
So I open the fridge and start preparing the dinner. A bit of this, a bit of that… and suddenly… oohh ohhh! Where is the cream darling?
He forgot to buy it, chicken is cooking and the sauce is in middle of preparation… I have to replace the cream!
I open the cupboard, the fridge and start to look for something that can help. Thinking a bit I found some pieces of different cheeses, so I change the dinner… Chicken and Champignons with Chesses sauce!
I found this experience similar to agile software development, you have something to do, but you could found some issues, requirements could change and YOU, the agile team, must be prepare to adapt to this changes!
July 18th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
That’s agile by nature, because you could embrace the change instead of follow the original plan and collaborate with the customer, understanding that customer satisfaction is the priority.
And beliveme, the customer is satisfied.