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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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A Marketer’s Guide to Agile Development – Cool New Jobs in 2011
Really enjoyed the great Derek Huether’s post about zombie meetings on his blog The Critical Path. And it got me thinking…perhaps our meeting-crazed corporate culture could actually spur some new job growth?
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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.
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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?
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A Marketer’s Guide to Agile Development – Three Degrees of Separation
There are many types of seating arrangements you might encounter. Marketers new to Agile may be surprised that there’s actually office furniture specifically made for it. The look is modern, dividers are low, everyone can see and hear each other, and it’s great for fostering collaboration. Not so great when you need to call your doctor and describe that rash, though. A “caves” (private rooms) and “commons” (shared areas) approach can help when folks need more solitude than earbuds or noise-cancelling headphones can provide.
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A Marketer’s Guide to Agile Development – Why the Numbers Still Don’t Match
So you got a business intelligence system. It’s gonna be great! No more frustrating meetings where you spend half an hour wrangling over whose sales number is right! One source of truth, pure and simple! Suckerrrrr. Like Oscar Wilde said, the truth is never pure and rarely simple.
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A Marketer’s Guide To Agile Development – There Are No Dumb Questions – Oh, Sure There Are…
Hey Marketers – Admit it, you chuckled that time you heard your Dev team brethren talk about “sending out an email blast” and that other time they confused the terms headline and tagline. News flash — Dev’s laughing at you too. Get acquainted with Agile so you’ll know better than to ask these side-splitters:
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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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Twas The Night…..Agile Style
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro’ the cubes
Every creature was coding – yes, even the newbs;
The post-it notes, placed on the kanban with care,
Fluttered as muttering cluttered the air;
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