Talk: We were doing everything right; So how did it go so wrong?!
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Mike Harris
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We were doing everything right; So how did it go so wrong?!
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It was my first day on the team and I was already writing production-ready code! Yes, that's right: I joined the team in the morning, had my customary on-boarding "here's what we do, this is what you'll be doing, here's your desk, here's your laptop, there are the toilets and the fire exits", and then joined my new colleagues who were practising mob programming at the time. Within the hour I was the driver writing production Java code that the navigators were requesting. I didn't quite understand what the code was for, but I was writing it! This was a project I joined where we were seemingly doing everything right: the best practices, the best architecture, the best paradigms, the best technology. However the result was that we under-delivered, delivered late, and didn't deliver something of a great deal value; the perception was of a slow team who evangelised Agile practices yet wasn't able to deliver valuable, working software in a timely manner.
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