The Evolution of Agile - Hannes Färberböck

In this episode Hannes Färberböck shares his rich, 20+ year
history of agile and its various methodologies with us. Hannes is
the Managing Director of Nagarro's Austrian operations and the
had of their Testing Business Unit. He first started his journey
by learning and applying Extreme Programming (XP), and then
conducting trainings for other teams on XP. 


Hannes recalls hearing about the first ever XP conference, where
many of the signatories of the Agile Manifesto were in attendance
(before it actually existed).  


Looking back over time and seeing how agile has evolved, here are
some of the changes that Hannes reflects on:
+ There is more than one process you can use to be agile+
Companies can (and should) adapt those processes to meet their
needs+ DevOps significantly helps reduce silos between dev teams
and operations (he sees the next best version as
DevTestOps). - Continuous Delivery: while it has the right
goals, it can unintentionally turn "burndown charts" into "burnout
charts" where teams never get a moment to take a breath. 

To that last point, we discussed the importance of NOT ignoring
or delaying your continuous improvement focus. Whether it be a
technical area like refactoring code, or a more interpersonal
area like building trust on the team, these things cannot be
delayed because we have too many things to deliver. Instead, we
need to make them a routine that becomes part of the fabric of
the organization.