John Nolan, e2x

John Nolan has been an Agile practioner since 1999 having founded and run one of the world's longest Agile(XP) projects at Connextra (7+ years).

Connextra has been used as an influential case-study within the Agile community.

He has over 17 years of experience working with hardware and software in a number of domains from finance and advertising through to engineering and research.

John is currently a partner at e2x - a consultancy specializing in software delivery. Amongst other things, John is an ACM Distinguished Engineer.

Presentation: "Transparency: great leap forward or exposed artery"

Track: XpDay Sampler

Time: Thursday 17:15 - 18:15

Location: Guild Room

Abstract:

Agile propagandists make great claims about the advantages of being transparent about the state of their projects

They fill their walls with index cards and charts that expose their progress to anyone who might be wandering through the room. They have regular, intense feedback sessions where they make it clear to the stakeholders just how many things they need to fix. They claim that this how maturerelationships work and that "Honesty is the best policy".

But is this true? Many of us work in dysfunctional organisations where honesty is the best way to get cheated. Surely Transparency is just not pragmatic?