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New Agile Jobs

Code-Alones – Programmers who lack the people skills to be developers.

None-Of-Your-Business Analysts – Requirements gatherers for skunkworks projects.

Projectile Managers – Representatives of death march projects who must appear before angry stakeholders in the Marketing Conference Room.

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Agile Humor – More Words to Live By

Buristic Review – An exercise to gain heuristic insight that will be rejected by a bureaucrat because the research didn’t come from his team.

Merital Raise – A merit-based pay increase for spending more time in the office cranking out code with your colleagues than at home with your spouse.

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Agile Humor – New Certifications

The brilliant Peter Saddington, a/k/a AgileScout, posted a wickedly funny April 1st announcement of a Certified Agile Blogger course. Yep, April Fool! Read it, it’s great fun.

Since I blog about Agile from the point of view of the business stakeholders, it got me thinking about other certifications we could use in the Agile community.

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Agile Humor – The Definition Of Done

The CMO: When the new functionality reduces the bounce rate from 40% to 4%.

The CIO: Done? When’s the release, 11:45? 11:46.

The PR Director: 11:45? I told ClickZ and TechCrunch it went live last Tuesday.

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Agile Humor – Top Ten Rejected Agile Taglines

1. Accelerate Success But Let’s Not Get Crazy About It

2. Aggression In Its Most Passive Form

3. Delivering Your Lame-Ass Ideas Faster Every Day

4. We’re Not Arrogant – We’re Winning

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Agile Humor – Yo Momma’s So Agile…

Yo momma’s so Agile she took a two-day vacation and came back a Certified Momma.

Yo momma’s so Agile she makes you eat breakfast in fifteen minutes, standing up.

Yo momma’s so Agile she’ll only commit to PTA four weeks at a time.

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Agile Humor – Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

THE BUSINESS ANALYST

I have twelve meetings today, I don’t have time to get into the whole user story. But I can tell you it involves a rooster on a distributed team.

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Agile Humor – Words To Live By

Agilewashing – A waterfall shop that throws a scrum or two onto their schedule to seem cool. The Agile equivalent of a veneer, also known as “all hat, no cattle”.

Agillectomy – Removal of a development team’s efficiency gland by the new waterfall-loving CTO.

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Agile Humor: What Do You Stand For?

Any
Girls
Into
Living
Extreme?

How
Odd.
Tested
Fine.
Iterating…
(Xhausted…)

Kill
All
Negativity;
Board
Advances
Nirvana.

Stand-up
Convergence
Requirement:
Up
Mornings.

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Agile Humor: “Overheard” – An Agile Crossword

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