{"id":1000,"date":"2023-07-04T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amberrfield.com\/staging\/1483\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2023-07-03T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T21:44:00","slug":"agile-discovery-delivery-simplicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amberrfield.com\/staging\/1483\/agile-discovery-delivery-simplicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Agile Discovery &#038; Delivery: Simplicity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wish everyone reading a very happy July 4th weekend! I&#8217;ve had a couple of free days this weekend with nothing planned and they reminded me just how important the idea of &#8220;simplicity&#8221; really is. I&#8217;ve used them to get the manuscript for my upcoming book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amberrfield.com\/staging\/1483\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Agile Discovery &amp; Delivery<\/a><\/em> ready to upload to Amazon. That should happen TODAY! If you can&#8217;t wait to purchase it, you can check out my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Agile-Discovery-Delivery-Engineers-Entrepreneurs-ebook\/dp\/B0C8C5SH11\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1AYD3ZPQZHNWR&amp;keywords=agile+discovery+%26+delivery&amp;qid=1688419279&amp;sprefix=agile+discovery+%26+delivery%2Caps%2C91&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pre-order link<\/a> here. The eBook has been the <strong>#1 New Release in the Software Engineering<\/strong> <strong>category<\/strong> almost the entire time it&#8217;s been open for pre-orders. I am so thrilled and humbled by the excitement and support I&#8217;m getting from friends, colleagues, my former students, and strangers. The paperback and hardcover options should be available on or shortly after July 18th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book Excerpt: Simplicity Principle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, I&#8217;d like to share another book excerpt from the first chapter: <em>An Agile Software Development Overview<\/em>. In this chapter, I discuss what &#8220;agile&#8221; is, waterfall vs. agile, the agile manifesto, and the agile principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just like children, I&#8217;ll never admit that I have favorites between the various agile principles (oh wait, I actually DO talk about my favorites in the book!). That being said, this might be one of them. Here&#8217;s how I explain the agile principle of &#8220;simplicity&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Simplicity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Agile software development maximizes the following (not an exhaustive list):<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The number of meetings we\u2019re NOT in<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The number of lines of code we DON\u2019T write<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The pages of documentation we DON\u2019T produce<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The number of dependencies we DON\u2019T have<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Time spent on the most important tasks<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Team communication effectiveness<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The speed with which we remove team blockers<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Each team\u2019s decision-making abilities and empowerment<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With agile development, simplicity guides everything we do as a software development team.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe simplest solution is almost always the best solution.\u201d &#8211; Occam\u2019s razor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Agile teams strive to incorporate simplicity in everything they build. <strong>The smaller and more decoupled (free from dependencies on other system parts) a solution is, the easier it is to add features.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for reading! If you know of anyone who might enjoy my book, I would love it if you would pass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Agile-Discovery-Delivery-Engineers-Entrepreneurs-ebook\/dp\/B0C8C5SH11\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1AYD3ZPQZHNWR&amp;keywords=agile+discovery+%26+delivery&amp;qid=1688419279&amp;sprefix=agile+discovery+%26+delivery%2Caps%2C91&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the link<\/a> on to them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite agile principles is that of simplicity. 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