Speaking of Agile
Speaking of Agile
How rhetorical devices like metaphors and analogies can help make clear the changes needed to adopt an Agile mindset
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How rhetorical devices like metaphors and analogies can help make clear the changes needed to adopt an Agile mindset.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Defining Terms
- Cautionary Tales
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Agile: What’s In A Name?
- People and Interactions
- Working Software
- Customer Collaboration
- Responding to Change
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Agile Metaphors
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Thinking Agile
- The Parable of The Flow
- Riding the rails
- What is your favorite color?
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Trust
- The bridge of trust
- Replace the wiring
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Complexity
- Raising a child
- Learning a new song
- Tending a garden
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Thinking Agile
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Scrum
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A Framework
- Pointing at the moon
- Going bowling
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Roles
- The driving instructor
- The school teacher
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Goals
- Running a race
- Ready, Fire, Aim!
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Product Backlog Management
- Building a boxing ring
- The Scrum Princess
- The electrician and the gardener
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A Framework
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Customers
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Needs and Wants
- The tea kettle
- The incandescent light bulb
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Telling Stories
- The pregnant story
- Building on quicksand
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Needs and Wants
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Collaborators
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Rhetorical Communication
- A visit from extra-terrestrials
- I heard it through the grapevine…
- A war of words
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Visualization
- Swimming upstream
- An uphill battle
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Rhetorical Communication
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Teams
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Cooperation
- And all the men and women merely players
- A long fly ball to left field
- Running the fast break
- Please approach the bench
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Collaboration
- Crouch. Bind. Set. Specialists in the rugby scrum
- Nine women can’t shorten pregnancy to a single month
- Air traffic control
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Cooperation
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Organizations
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Culture
- Seeing an organization as a culture
- Taking a trip
- City planning
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Agile Transformation
- Hitting the brick wall
- Farming
- Competing in the Tour de France
- Freezing a pond
- An expedition
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Leadership
- A ship’s crew
- Growing leaders
- A leadership tree
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Culture
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Delivering Value
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Work in Progress
- Going out for dinner
- Highway traffic
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Breaking Work Down
- The Mona Lisa
- Writing a book
- Building a house
- Chipping away at a stone
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Design considerations
- Cutting at the joints
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Work in Progress
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Continuous Improvement
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Feedback
- Commuting to work
- Riding a bicycle
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Experimentation
- Building a bridge
- Paint the bedroom
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Retrospection
- The sailboat
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Administrivia
- Suns and black holes
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Feedback
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The Future
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- A Copernican revolution
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- Notes
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