InfoQ recently featured an interview with Joseph Pelrine. Joseph has done a good deal to facilitate my journey into Agile and Scrum and for this I am very grateful. He trained me on Australia's first Certified ScrumMaster course in February 2005 and I have been lucky enough to have trained and worked with him on other occassions since then. Joseph is a pioneer of Extreme Programming who became Europe's first Certified Scrum Trainer after recognising that our biggest struggles on software projects are at a project management and people level rather than at a technical level.
I think it is fair to say that Joseph is really at the leading/bleeding edge of Agile these days through his work in Social Complexity Science as applied to agile projects and organisational change. A lot of what he discusses in this interview is quite advanced but great food for thought and further study. Here's a quick outline of topics discussed:
- Joseph's background: Smalltalk,
Extreme Programming, Scrum
- Social Complexity Science
- Retrospective coherence
- Methodologies inc. Waterfall, Lean
Manufacturing
- Cognitive bias
- Social Network Analysis (SNA)
- Narrative Inquiry / Architypal
narrative
- Best Practice and Ontological myopia
- Designing creative interventions
- Obstacles that Agile teams hit
- Dilbert cartoons vs Sufi Nasrudin stories
- Blame driven culture vs Learning
culture
Enjoy the interview.