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Agile Humor – Knock knock…
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Processes and tools.
Processes and tools who?
See, I told you he was Agile!
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
The user.
The user who?
Yup, we’re at Microsoft.
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.
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.
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.
A Marketer’s Guide To Agile – You Know You’re An Agile Wannabe When…
1. Your dress code prohibits hoodies – a key requirement of Agile.
2. You consider yourself an Agile centrist – that Manifesto sounds kinda socialist.
3. You keep a copy of the project requirements in your trunk for traction.
Read more on A Marketer’s Guide To Agile – You Know You’re An Agile Wannabe When……
A Marketer’s Guide to Agile Development – I’ll Take Agile for $1,000, Alex…
A: 8-track tapes; sleeves on wedding gowns; heavy up-front requirements.
Q: What is nostalgia?
A: Data storage costs; mortgage industry headcount; development project documentation.
Q: What is downsizing?
A: Two face cards; Oliver and Hardy; driver/observer programming team.
Q: What is a pair?
Read more on A Marketer’s Guide to Agile Development – I’ll Take Agile for $1,000, Alex……
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.
Read more on Agile Humor – Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?…
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.
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.
