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A kindred spirit and great personal resource, Jurgen Appelo.  Jurgen is the CIO at ISM eCompany, a Dutch company that creates web sites and web applications for customers

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What (Else) Can Agile Learn From Complexity (presentation)

Agile development has taken a number of concepts and principles from the study of complex adaptive systems. But since the birth of the Agile Manifesto, the study of complexity has not stopped. In this talk I give a number of ideas copied from complexity experts, and I will review what fitness landscapes, patches, power laws, and incompressibility could mean for agile software development.

• Hierarchies are not a problem, they are natural;
• Prediction of velocity includes an (impossible) estimate of unknown problems;
• Patches of Scrums can be an alternative to Scrum of Scrums;
• ScrumButs are natural and necessary;
• Agile management is an often forgotten but crucial part of agile;
• A project with many strong interdependent parts can behave chaotically;
• All we will ever have are a variety of imperfect methods;
• A self-organizing team with the size of 8 should better be avoided;

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