Dave Thomas

Most-linked posts?

1. Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) (2014)
   8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2017-10-05
2. Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility)
   7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-03-11
3. Splitting APIs, Servers, and Implementations in Elixir
   4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-07-14
4. /blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/
   4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-04-03
5. Pragdave 2.0
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-06
6. Small Is Beautiful–The Component Library For Elixir
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-10
7. Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) (2014)
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-22
8. Dave Thomas on Project Directory Structure
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-03
9. PragProg 2.0 – Dave Thomas Back at Pragmatic Bookshelf
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-20
10. Learning a New Language (Or Anything,) by Dave Thomas
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-10

What Hacker News says?

1. lectrick · 2015-07-01

   > but in Erlang you don't want to touch that feature with a ten foot pole. It's hairy and incredibly annoying to work with It's pretty much the exact opposite in Elixir. The only thing you really have to wrap your head around is the switch between the quoting context and the unquoting context... which is pretty much no different from understanding macros period. The definition syntax looks just like a method definit…

   Comment linking /blog/2014/11/05/a-simple-elixir-macro/

   on “John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language”
2. ternaryoperator · 2014-03-11

   Submitted Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) as a story · 261 points

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3. nchuhoai · 2014-12-12

   For people interested, you can do something like this in Ruby right now that has nearly the same syntax: http://pragdave.me/blog/2007/12/30/pipelines-using-fibers-in...

   Comment linking /blog/2007/12/30/pipelines-using-fibers-in-ruby-19/

   on “Streem – a new programming language from Matz”
4. mooreds · 2019-02-10

   Submitted Small Is Beautiful–The Component Library For Elixir as a story · 4 points

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5. h0l0cube · 2019-05-26

   Relevant: https://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html

   Comment linking /blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html

   on “Scrum is fragile, not Agile”
6. sotojuan · 2016-05-06

   Submitted Pragdave 2.0 as a story · 4 points

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7. keanzu · 2019-08-04

   "The word 'agile' has been subverted to the point where it is effectively meaningless, and what passes for an agile community seems to be largely an arena for consultants and vendors to hawk services and products." - Dave Thomas (Manifesto for Agile Software Development author) https://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html

   Comment linking /blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html

   on “Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (2016)”
8. harshamv22 · 2020-05-10

   Submitted Learning a New Language (Or Anything,) by Dave Thomas as a story · 3 points

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9. timtadh · 2014-03-12

   What I noticed using this to read a couple Ars Technica articles was it worked really well for short words. But, if a longer complicated word appeared, at say 600 wpm, I would miss it. It seems like an adaptive algorithm based on word length would improve the speed even more allowing it to go faster on short common words and slow down on longer unusual words. Also, there is bug that sometimes causes two words to app…

   Comment linking /blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/

   on “Squirt.io – Readability Meets Spritz Speed Reading”
10. iamd3vil · 2017-07-14

    Submitted Splitting APIs, Servers, and Implementations in Elixir as a story · 3 points

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11. andrei_says_ · 2021-07-25

    There’s a fascinating talk by Dave Thomas, one of the authors of the agile manifesto, speaking of the simple meaning of the manifesto and the insanity of the Agile Industrial Complex bureaucratic cult created around it. Agile is Dead - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M Here’s a blog post by him: https://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html

    Comment linking /blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html

    on “Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion”
12. henrik_w · 2017-03-31

    Submitted Testing Private Functions as a story · 3 points

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13. bananaboy · 2015-05-14

    Yeah Dave Thomas has written about it here too http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/ and also Mike Cohn one of the developers of scrum has criticised blindly following methodologies (which is sort of related) http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/dont-blindly-follow

    Comment linking /blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/

    on “The Failure of Agile”
14. aendruk · 2014-10-06

    Submitted Thinking in Transforms–Handling Options as a story · 3 points

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15. simula67 · 2015-05-13

    Relevant : http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/

    Comment linking /blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/

    on “The Failure of Agile”
16. thunderbong · 2023-06-22

    Submitted Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) (2014) as a story · 2 points

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17. drderidder · 2016-12-19

    I like it, but it could use some refinement. Already a couple of years ago Dave Thomas, one of the original authors of the Agile Manifesto, wrote a piece called "Time to Kill Agile" (renamed "Agile is Dead")[1]. The "lean startup" methodology and guidelines found in "Rework" and "Getting Real" have gotten traction in some of the younger companies in my area but I don't think they've been codified into a single set o…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/

    on “The Longflow Manifesto”
18. dxs · 2022-08-20

    Submitted “The Interview”, by Pragmatic Dave Thomas as a story · 2 points

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19. mirkonasato · 2019-10-03

    That's ironic since the Agile Manifesto was originally written by software developers, in 2001. The problem is that since then - as Dave Thomas put it in his "Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility)" post "The word “agile” has been subverted to the point where it is effectively meaningless, and what passes for an agile community seems to be largely an arena for consultants and vendors to hawk services and products." ( htt…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html

    on “Why some software developers hate Agile”
20. mathiasbeckius · 2020-05-26

    Submitted Learning a New Language (Or Anything,) as a story · 2 points

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21. simula67 · 2016-04-03

    Atleast two signatories if Agile Manifest has stated that the movement has lost its way [1][2]. I think it never had a chance. With the old waterfall model, projcet managers had some power : they could continuosly interrupt engineers and ask them to do more and more since project went in one trajectory for years. They were justified since the engineers had plenty of 'downtime'. Engineers had some power, the project…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/

    on “Years and lessons working at ThoughtWorks”
22. jbernardo95 · 2018-06-03

    Submitted Dave Thomas on Project Directory Structure as a story · 2 points

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23. rebelshrug · 2014-12-26

    here's Dave Thomas' blog post on the subject: http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/

    Comment linking /blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/

    on “The Death of Agile [video]”
24. whalesalad · 2018-02-25

    Submitted Decoupling APIs, Servers, and Implementations in Elixir as a story · 2 points

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25. sequoia · 2019-05-02

    So waterfall can be agile as long as everyone is on the same page about it? I'm afraid I'm lost. Incidentally, it turns out I'm a late comer to the "stop saying agile" point–an author of the Agile Manifesto was saying that 5 years ago https://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html

    Comment linking /blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html

    on “Everyone claims they are following “agile methods” but few do (2018)”
26. danso · 2016-05-15

    Submitted Pragdave 2.0 as a story · 2 points

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27. drderidder · 2019-05-01Recommends

    Dave Thomas, one of the original authors of the Agile Manifesto [1] wrote an article called "Time to Kill Agile" [2] a few years ago (which he subsequently re-titled "Agile is Dead"). He has some good insight on how Agile (the methodology) got to be something very different from what they intended. Originally they were trying to break away from a rigid methodology, not introduce a whole new one. Unfortunately, if yo…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html

    on “Everyone claims they are following “agile methods” but few do (2018)”
28. ChrisArchitect · 2023-09-21

    Submitted PragProg 2.0 – Dave Thomas Back at Pragmatic Bookshelf as a story · 1 points

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29. tomcam · 2022-05-05

    According to this PragProg do in fact offer 50% of gross. https://pragdave.me/blog/2009/10/19/pragmatic-bookshelf-roya...

    Comment linking /blog/2009/10/19/pragmatic-bookshelf-royalty-rates.html

    on “Writing a book for O'Reilly”
30. sadfrog · 2023-09-20

    Submitted PragProg 2.0 as a story · 1 points

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