FROM THE ARCHIVES OF PRAGPUB MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2011
To Agility… and Beyond!
By Kent Beck
From Agile @ 10: Ten Authors of The Agile Manifesto Celebrate its Tenth Anniversary
I took the Manifesto in one direction with my To Agility… and Beyond! talk. The point there was that the Manifesto assumes that there is someone
“out there” who knows (or at least will tell you) what to do next. What do
you do if that isn’t the case? Increasingly it seems to me that this will be the
case for interesting development. How do you develop when it’s everybody’s job to figure out what to do next?
This is not the only direction the Manifesto could go. In general, I’d like to
see it talk about increasing responsibility and accountability, productive
conflict, and personal growth, but that’s probably because these are the issues I struggle with. :)
About the Kent Beck
Kent Beck is the founder and director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI). His career has combined the practice of software development with reflection, innovation, and communication. His contributions to software development include patterns for software, the rediscovery of test-first programming, the xUnit family of developer testing tools, and Extreme Programming. He currently divides his time between writing, programming, and coaching. Beck is the author/co-author of Implementation Patterns, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change 2nd Edition, Contributing to Eclipse, Test-Driven Development: By Example, Planning Extreme Programming, The Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, and the JUnit Pocket Guide. He received his
B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.
