HaikuDriven Development

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Haiku-Driven Development
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Using Ritual and CeremonytoSustain
AgilityandStave Off Process Fatigue
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Process gets boring.
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How do wekeep it fresh?
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Tune up process.
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Jean Tabaka
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Who wants to be part of a Scrum engine?
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I Dont Like Mondays
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(Agile 2007 talk)
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Processdoesnt sustain itself.
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Ritualpunctuates process.
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Ceremonysustains process.
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Traditionbuilds community.
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Ritual
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customary observanceor practice
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Punctuation
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clarifies meaningby separating
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Ceremony
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formal eventperformed onspecial occasion
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Tradition
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specific practice of long standing
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Ritual.
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Team wanted to track.
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Team forgot to track.
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We keep forgetting to record our start time.
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Ideas hide in jokes.
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What if you wrote a haiku?
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Hee-hee!
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Later that same day...
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Devs wrote a haiku on the story card...
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(after researching forms of Japanese poetry)
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When a story was complete...
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...everyone wanted to hear the haiku.
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Reading the haiku marked progress in the
iteration.
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Later that iteration...
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More taskswith tracked time.
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Guess what?
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CEO started coming to standups...
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...to hear the haikus for the completed stories!
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(...and accidentally kept up on progress.)
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Why did this work?
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Planning and trackingis boring.
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Poetry is interesting.
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Rituals root process.
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Punctuation.
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Iterations weretwo-week timeboxes.
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Black boxes.
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The teamwanted to connect.
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Commencement chime!
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Completion frog.
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Development rhythm.
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Ding!
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Talking-talking-talking.
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Baruuuupp!
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Repeat until done.
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Ceremony.
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Planning Game.
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Planning Meeting.
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Estimate, shuffle, negotiate, choose.
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Ends
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not with a bang
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but a whimper.
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A stack of cards.
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Presentation.
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I have in my hand...
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Zen stories.
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Always strangely appropriate.
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Why did this work?
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Endingsneedmarking.
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Or celebration.
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Tradition.
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Putting the a in team.
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Painful planning meeting.
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Free drinks!
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Everyone showed up.
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Next planning meeting...
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So, what timeare we drinking?
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When do you wantto start?
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Why did this work?
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Youve got me.
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But it did!
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Time after time.
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Happy accident.
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Inject whimsy?
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Discover whimsy.
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Discover delight.
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Cant force it.
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Dont force it.
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Roll around in it.
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Listen.
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Capture.
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Evolve.
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