Creativity Before & After Agile
summary
Argues computing evolves through three learning loops: the read-eval-print loop, the desktop iterative loop that births XP practices, and the cloud “incident recovery loop.” Demonstrates a live federated wiki at ward.fed.wiki, a survey that maps Woods’s graceful extensibility (10 propositions) against 73 agile indicators with radar charts, and a photo-mapping project (289 trails, ~839 images). Claims XP practices — pair programming, TDD, relentless refactoring and episodes — make creative, unexpected solutions repeatable; the wiki and alignment exercises are shown working in practice.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 2:58The importance of learning loops
- 5:22The evolution of the REPL
- 8:00Iterative development and agility
- 10:28Complex systems and incident recovery
- 13:39Graceful extensibility
- 17:32Leveraging unexpected solutions
- 21:01Velocity and technical debt
- 25:23Defining normative good
- 30:45Measuring team performance
- 34:52The impact of wiki and collaboration
- 37:12Storytelling and mapping
- 42:55Q&A and final thoughts
