So I am still on the hardly-ever-getting-around-to-blogging-plan, and now that I am taking the time to add something, it is just a geeky comment on an article. How cheap! Still, I can't help but highlight the article I found today.
Background: Like many others, I have been a fan of the Agile Development process for software development in the past. Although imperfect, it seems to approach the needs of both the business owners of a project as well as the developers working to make the project happen. What I have found more intriguing, however, are the opportunities to take principles and practices from the Agile Development methodology and apply them in other areas of business and my life.
I will admit that some parts of the article I am about to link to contradict the whole idea of using Agile ideas outside of the software world, but hey, this is my blog and I can have an opinion here. So I respectfully disagree.
Here is the article: The Decline and Fall of Agile
Like so many things in life, whether it is writing books, running half-marathons, buying houses, etc., the success of the thing is based on the will of the participants to follow through. It isn't skill, talent, smarts, etc, etc. For all the successful people I have met so far in my life the persistant, follow-throughers out-number the skill/talent/smart crowd 10 to 1. Conversely, of all the people I have met (including myself at times) that TALK about achieving a goal but DON'T, I can confidently say 99 out of 100 of them haven't followed through. To be fair I will say that they haven't followed through YET. (I am an optimist.)
How does this relate? If you boil down most of the issues both in this article and the subsequent comments, everyone is complaining a lack of follow-through in one way or another. Even the commentors that mention a lack of training and skill seem to be asking their peers to follow through on pursuing their education. There are a few that just think they are smarter than everyone else, but hey, it is a technical article. What do you expect?
Anyway, those are my thoughts, and I am glad I took the time to share them, even though this doesn't really fit in my blog very well. Deal with it:)
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