Comments on: The Name of the Game is Change http://www.pavley.com/2009/10/14/the-name-of-the-game-is-change/ “A great leap in the dark” – Thomas Hobbes Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:42:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: pav http://www.pavley.com/2009/10/14/the-name-of-the-game-is-change/comment-page-1/#comment-125 pav Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:16:59 +0000 http://www.pavley.com/?p=89#comment-125 Thanks for the comment Anish. I agree with you: You have to be really organized before you can be successful with Agile and Scrum. Thanks for the comment Anish. I agree with you: You have to be really organized before you can be successful with Agile and Scrum.

]]> By: pav http://www.pavley.com/2009/10/14/the-name-of-the-game-is-change/comment-page-1/#comment-118 pav Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:04:48 +0000 http://www.pavley.com/?p=89#comment-118 Excellent comments James and Andrey! Ever since I first ran into the Model-View-Controller design pattern I released that layering biz logic was an amazingly powerful tool to deal with changing requirements. Agile is just he methodology that lets you do it with people :) Excellent comments James and Andrey! Ever since I first ran into the Model-View-Controller design pattern I released that layering biz logic was an amazingly powerful tool to deal with changing requirements. Agile is just he methodology that lets you do it with people :)

]]> By: Andrey Fedorov http://www.pavley.com/2009/10/14/the-name-of-the-game-is-change/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Andrey Fedorov Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:30:55 +0000 http://www.pavley.com/?p=89#comment-106 "JIT planning" is spot on, and most important. I've heard <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay" rel="nofollow">famous software people</a> refer to this as "late binding" or as the <i>Open Future Principle</i>: “The best way to implement the future is to avoid having to predict it” (<a href="http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2006001a_colaswp.pdf" rel="nofollow">pdf</a>). In other words, don't make decisions now if you can make them later (when you'll have more data). This, in turn, yields a very important architectural axiom - that we ought to choose and create systems which allow you to defer decisions to a later point. This means choosing systems which let you separate business logic to make it reusable over those that don't, picking systems which allow you to change garbage collection strategies over those which don't, and systems which allow you to separate your domain objects from their serialization strategies. “JIT planning” is spot on, and most important. I’ve heard famous software people refer to this as “late binding” or as the Open Future Principle: “The best way to implement the future is to avoid having to predict it” (pdf). In other words, don’t make decisions now if you can make them later (when you’ll have more data).

This, in turn, yields a very important architectural axiom – that we ought to choose and create systems which allow you to defer decisions to a later point. This means choosing systems which let you separate business logic to make it reusable over those that don’t, picking systems which allow you to change garbage collection strategies over those which don’t, and systems which allow you to separate your domain objects from their serialization strategies.

]]> By: Anish http://www.pavley.com/2009/10/14/the-name-of-the-game-is-change/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Anish Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:45:59 +0000 http://www.pavley.com/?p=89#comment-104 "This is in well run organizations. In poorly run organizations the change is constant and internally generated" - Very well said! This emphsizes a need to be organized and in control when implementing agile principals. I feel it's an important point that is many times missed in following scrum. Thanks John Anish B “This is in well run organizations. In poorly run organizations the change is constant and internally generated” – Very well said! This emphsizes a need to be organized and in control when implementing agile principals. I feel it’s an important point that is many times missed in following scrum. Thanks John

Anish B

]]> By: James http://www.pavley.com/2009/10/14/the-name-of-the-game-is-change/comment-page-1/#comment-82 James Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:01:53 +0000 http://www.pavley.com/?p=89#comment-82 Another really great piece. I wrote an article published in Innovation in 2001 on a process I call "Channeling Innovation" that encourages, accommodates, and manages change. The "five patterns" you list fold neatly into it. I'm looking forward to your next post. Another really great piece. I wrote an article published in Innovation in 2001 on a process I call “Channeling Innovation” that encourages, accommodates, and manages change. The “five patterns” you list fold neatly into it. I’m looking forward to your next post.

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