Agile Practices and Developer Autonomy

0:00 Do your agile practices feel like a leash instead of a launchpad?
0:31 Something has gone wrong
1:03 A few statements from agilemanifesto.org
1:54 Those statements make it obvious don't they?
2:13 Let's think about the business world in the 90s
2:36 In the 20th century, very few companies were tech startups
3:08 Strict bureaucracies and hierarchical command
3:38 Command control peacework specialization centralization
3:56 It was dehumanizing
4:20 Ideas like scrum and crystal and openagile resonated
4:41 Limited by the micromanaging nature of the establishment
4:53 Tension between transparency and scrutiny, autonomy and anarchy
5:28 Agile practices are designed to push authority toward the development team
6:12 Self-managing teams are supported, transparency is expected
6:37 Developers might feel watched
6:44 Transparency should lead to empowerment
7:08 Developers can feel exposed
7:23 Scrum might be hijacked for surveillance
7:44 Measure outcomes, not activity
7:57 Thanks