program selection system

Agile methods like Scrum and XP involve repetitive meetings and actions that can become routine and lose freshness, challenge and novelty. How do we put “heart” into agile processes? How can team members inject variety or even whimsy into what they do every day? What are effective ways to “punctuate” agile routines? And what exactly is “Haiku-Driven Development (HDD)”? In this workshop, we’ll review actual experiences with teams practicing XP and Scrum, and provide examples of how teams avoided having agile processes become more albatross than aid.

For over 10,000 years ritual has created effective Communities. A handshake is a ritual. Ritual reinforces the values; it creates the experience of living out values in the reality and appreciation for those values. Agile is a set of values and principles and the conscious application of ritual will help teams be more effective. An example: A team was not using paired programming effectively. The team created a ritual. When taking a task, announce, “Who can I pair with?”. The team became more effective in the practice of paired programming.