{"id":2458,"date":"2017-06-19T01:30:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T06:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2017-05-29T08:42:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T13:42:45","slug":"agile-and-the-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2017\/06\/agile-and-the-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Agile and the Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>In which I consider what happens in a kitchen and ask, &#8220;what was it those guys with the manifesto invented?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For years, my wife has managed kitchens in all-volunteer organizations. For years before that, my wife&#8217;s mother did the same. Consider the situation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is unprepared food<\/li>\n<li>There is an end-state\u2014prepared food<\/li>\n<li>Some volunteers walk in with mixed and largely unknown skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The person in charge (PIC) gives a task to each volunteer and observes. When a volunteer nears completion of a task, the PIC tells them of the next task. The &#8220;next task&#8221; depends on what the PIC has learned about the volunteer&#8217;s skills and how fast the volunteer is learning.<\/p>\n<p>Some volunteers leave after a task or two. Some volunteers appear at some point during the preparation of the food.<\/p>\n<p>As the food preparation progresses, the nature of the tasks changes. The PIC works through the tasks with the volunteers<\/p>\n<p>This all sounds like agile software development. The PIC is the SCRUM master (in one set of agile terms). The volunteers are the team members. There is a start state and an end state. One meal is one sprint. There is a backlog of features. And so on it goes.<\/p>\n<p>Really, so we have to have a certified SCRUM master or someone to be the PIC? This backlog or kanban or something is all new? Learning while working is also something new?<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm, seems like a lot of people have been preparing a lot of meals for a long time, and none of them went to an Agile conference or anything.<\/p>\n<p>So I have to ask again,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;what was it those guys with the manifesto invented?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips In which I consider what happens in a kitchen and ask, &#8220;what was it those guys with the manifesto invented?&#8221; For years, my wife has managed kitchens in all-volunteer organizations. For years before that, my wife&#8217;s mother did the same. Consider the situation: There is unprepared food There is an end-state\u2014prepared food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,119,99,20,6],"tags":[171,120,214,142,129],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-adults","category-agility","category-learning","category-observation","tag-adapting","tag-adults","tag-agility","tag-learning","tag-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}