[HN Gopher] Understanding the reasoning behind the four agile va...
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Understanding the reasoning behind the four agile values
Author : rchaves
Score : 16 points
Date : 2021-10-24 18:07 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| necovek wrote:
| While I like the basic premise of embracing the uncertainty, I
| disagree that "nature" (evolutionary model) is the approach to
| follow: while it has produced marvelous results, "experiments"
| took way too long to learn from if they were progress/success or
| not.
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| I think we should embrace experimentation, but we should improve
| on natural processes because we are smart, sentient beings, and
| there are things we can predict and measure much faster, and thus
| pivot much faster too (as an example, all genetic diseases that
| are commonly terminal after the early reproductive age in humans
| are likely to be carried on into descendants because, well,
| reproduction has already happened -- it would take many
| generations for "nature" to weed out those diseases, but luckily,
| we've got medicine that helps us not even having to weed them all
| out, and does stop some altogether).
| cuillevel3 wrote:
| > Responding to change over following a plan
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| Agile manifesto: "That is, while there is value in the items on
| the right, we value the items on the left more."
| dang wrote:
| I edited the title because agile is one of those words that cause
| commenters to immediately react reflexively (yay agile or boo
| agile...but mostly boo) and this is a more thoughtful article
| that deserves better.
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| (Side note - when we do this, we try always to use representative
| language from the article itself)
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