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Daniel Doubrovkine

aka dB., @awscloud, former CTO @artsy, +@vestris, NYC

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This presentation by Scott Ambler is incredible. It’s full of amazing statistics.

For me, one thing was most impressive. I’ve gradually introduced XP in a critical project in my current company without any management support or agile rhetoric two years ago. I just did incremental change. But as soon as we started introducing agile, as in Scrum, we spent more times in meetings and had some major roadblocks, people problems, etc. I always wondered why the results were so different: Scott Ambler said out loud what I thought all along - we called the same things different names, which produced an impression of change without change. Some people who had a certain responsibility all along couldn’t handle it once it was called out. Management needed to be convinced, which required a lot of translating from Russian into Scrum, etc.