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Speaking of Agile

How rhetorical devices like metaphors and analogies can help make clear the changes needed to adopt an Agile mindset

C.A. Wynn

How do you explain that Agile adoption requires a change in thinking? Sometimes, it's easiest to do this through a metaphor or analogy. This book explores some of the more readily accessible examples, as well as some less known, in order to help Agile coaches guide teams and organizations toward adopting an Agile mindset.

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How rhetorical devices like metaphors and analogies can help make clear the changes needed to adopt an Agile mindset.

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C.A. Wynn

A lover of science fiction, C.A. Wynn is the pen name of Rich Brents. The author believes the genre relies too much on war, conquest, and other trite human tropes. In reality, the future - particularly in space exploration - is fertile ground for complex stories of human development and struggle.

Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Defining Terms

Cautionary Tales

Agile: What’s In A Name?

  1. People and Interactions
  2. Working Software
  3. Customer Collaboration
  4. Responding to Change

Agile Metaphors

  1. Thinking Agile
  2. The Parable of The Flow
  3. Riding the rails
  4. What is your favorite color?
  5. Trust
  6. The bridge of trust
  7. Replace the wiring
  8. Complexity
  9. Raising a child
  10. Learning a new song
  11. Tending a garden

Scrum

  1. A Framework
  2. Pointing at the moon
  3. Going bowling
  4. Roles
  5. The driving instructor
  6. The school teacher
  7. Goals
  8. Running a race
  9. Ready, Fire, Aim!
  10. Product Backlog Management
  11. Building a boxing ring
  12. The Scrum Princess
  13. The electrician and the gardener

Customers

  1. Needs and Wants
  2. The tea kettle
  3. The incandescent light bulb
  4. Telling Stories
  5. The pregnant story
  6. Building on quicksand

Collaborators

  1. Rhetorical Communication
  2. A visit from extra-terrestrials
  3. I heard it through the grapevine…
  4. A war of words
  5. Visualization
  6. Swimming upstream
  7. An uphill battle

Teams

  1. Cooperation
  2. And all the men and women merely players
  3. A long fly ball to left field
  4. Running the fast break
  5. Please approach the bench
  6. Collaboration
  7. Crouch. Bind. Set. Specialists in the rugby scrum
  8. Nine women can’t shorten pregnancy to a single month
  9. Air traffic control

Organizations

  1. Culture
  2. Seeing an organization as a culture
  3. Taking a trip
  4. City planning
  5. Agile Transformation
  6. Hitting the brick wall
  7. Farming
  8. Competing in the Tour de France
  9. Freezing a pond
  10. An expedition
  11. Leadership
  12. A ship’s crew
  13. Growing leaders
  14. A leadership tree

Delivering Value

  1. Work in Progress
  2. Going out for dinner
  3. Highway traffic
  4. Breaking Work Down
  5. The Mona Lisa
  6. Writing a book
  7. Building a house
  8. Chipping away at a stone
  9. Design considerations
  10. Cutting at the joints

Continuous Improvement

  1. Feedback
  2. Commuting to work
  3. Riding a bicycle
  4. Experimentation
  5. Building a bridge
  6. Paint the bedroom
  7. Retrospection
  8. The sailboat
  9. Administrivia
  10. Suns and black holes

The Future

  1. A Copernican revolution

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