{"id":71,"date":"2014-04-18T11:51:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/markshead\/?p=71"},"modified":"2016-09-07T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T22:29:27","slug":"agile-in-name-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/markshead\/agile-in-name-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Agile in Name Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5JN8W_LdF2o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Last minute travel plans had me looking for a way to get some dry cleaning done with faster turnaround than what my local dry cleaner could provide. We had to go to Joplin for a few hours before heading to Kansas City to catch our flight. A quick search showed there was a &#8220;1 Hour Dry Cleaners&#8221; in Joplin, so I figured I could drop my clothes off with them and pick them up as we headed out of town. On our way I gave them a call. The conversation went something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1HDC<\/strong>: Hello, this is 1 Hour Dry Cleaners.<br \/>\n<strong>Mark<\/strong>: I&#8217;ve got some clothes I need to get cleaned quickly. Which location should I take them to?<br \/>\n<strong>1HDC<\/strong>: It doesn&#8217;t matter.<br \/>\n<strong>Mark<\/strong>: Ok so if I drop them off around 8 I can pick them up a bit after 9.<br \/>\n<strong>1HDC<\/strong>: They probably won&#8217;t be done. But I guess we could mark them as &#8220;expedite.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Mark<\/strong>: Ok I just need them before we leave town, so if I drop them off at 8 and you mark them as expedite, will they be done by noon?<br \/>\n<strong>1HDC<\/strong>: Well even with &#8220;expedite&#8221; we probably won&#8217;t have them done that fast.<br \/>\n<strong>Mark<\/strong>: I&#8217;m sorry who did I call?<br \/>\n<strong>1HDC<\/strong>: This is 1 Hour Dry Cleaners in Joplin.<br \/>\n<strong>Mark<\/strong>: &#8230; ok&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>1HDC<\/strong>: Oh, but that is just our name. It isn&#8217;t what we do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I see a lot of &#8220;Agile teams&#8221; that suffer from the same problem. You aren&#8217;t Agile because you call yourself that name. Ceremonies don&#8217;t make you Agile either. A team isn&#8217;t Agile just because you have a daily standup or retrospectives. You have an Agile team if you are able to deliver usable code on a regular basis and welcome changing requirements. You have an Agile team if you prioritize face to face communication and the team has a lot of latitude to self-organize.<\/p>\n<p>Teams that are Agile in name only are just like the 1 Hour Dry Cleaner in Joplin that doesn&#8217;t do dry cleaning in an hour. No matter how great your name, it is the execution that matters.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/cr95YQ\">photo credit<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last minute travel plans had me looking for a way to get some dry cleaning done with faster turnaround than what my local dry cleaner could provide. We had to go to Joplin for a few hours before heading to Kansas City to catch our flight. A quick search showed there was a &#8220;1 Hour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/markshead\/agile-in-name-only\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agile in Name Only<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63996],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p70xgu-19","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/markshead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/markshead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/markshead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/markshead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/markshead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/markshead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/markshead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/markshead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/markshead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/markshead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}