Marcello reflects over the craftsmanship manifesto and its elements to uncover some interesting insights regarding the application of the underlying principles in real life projects and in the context of organisations and communities struggling to live up to the expectations it creates.
4. “Experience can lead us
in the right direction.
This is craft.
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[…] make it better with a
controlled process of
refinement.
This is engineering”
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AGILE MANIFESTO we value:
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individuals and interactions over
processes and tools
working software over
comprehensive documentation
collaboration over
contract
respond to change over
following a plan
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21. “We can forgive a man for making a
useful thing as long as he does not
admire it.
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The only excuse for making a useless
thing is that one admires it intensely.
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All art is quite useless.”
— Oscar Wilde
22.
23. “A man writes to throw off
the poison which he has
accumulated because of his
false way of life.”
— Henry Miller
24. “if you cannot work with
love it is better that you sit
at the gate of the temple
and take alms”
— Kahlil Gibran
25. 2 Not only responding to change
well-crafted | steadfastness | community | productive
but also steadily adding value
26. “the only way to go fast,
is to go well”
!
— Uncle Bob
48. helping
first make it work then make it right
leave the arguments to later
49. helping
first make it work then make it right
leave the arguments to later
try to understand where they are
50. helping
first make it work then make it right
leave the arguments to later
try to understand where they are
verify you understand the problem
51. helping
first make it work then make it right
leave the arguments to later
try to understand where they are
verify you understand the problem
be positive