PMT Conference

Two days of Ericsson PMT Conf are over. Two days meeting a lot of different people at our "booth with a lot of interesting conversations. Talking about everything from how to use or not use “Use Cases” to more philosophical discussions around leadership in an agile context.

Speaking of agile, while reading other blogs, forums, papers etc, I quite often stumble upon the notion that Agile is a lot (or all) about less documentation, less control, less process, less everything. My subjective interpretation is that while "less everything" can be a consequence of being more agile it is certainly not the "prescribed medicine". The most important aspects that agile, and also Lean, brings (from my perspective) is the focus on doing what counts, include people and learn from your mistakes and successes.

Sort of how a small business would work (since if it doesn't it won’t last long).

So to me there is no given that we should remove document X in order to become agile, we write it if it makes sense. Otherwise we don't.

And another thing... while ranting... we aren't agile just because we use TDD (or method X), we are agile if we use TDD because it fits our purpose now and if it doesn't in the future we have no problem of letting it go. I.e. we don't give a process or method its own life maintaining it just "because".