{"id":3361,"date":"2021-04-22T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2021-03-15T07:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:19:26","slug":"agile-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2021\/04\/agile-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Agile Nation(?)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Agile thought: do, learn, change, do learn, repeat. Great stuff in some situations. Not great in national policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone recently noted that the Agile Manifesto was 20 years old. This was a fancy way of stating the obvious when it comes to experiments: do a little, learn a little, do a little, learn a little, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The computer as we know it today is perfect for this &#8220;agile&#8221; idea. Type words on the screen. Save them, read them, improve them, repeat. Type a computer program on the screen, run it, learn, change it, run it learn, repeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National policy. Sorry. That is not like writing something on a computer screen. Do a little, learn a little, change, do a little, learn a little, repeat. It doesn\u2019t work with national policy about health or anything else at that level. Spend a few billion dollars. Learn a little. Repeat. Nope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe know more now\u201d is a pathetic excuse for lack of thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An agile nation? Nope. Won&#8217;t work. Now, let me read the words I types, change, learn, repeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Agile thought: do, learn, change, do learn, repeat. Great stuff in some situations. Not great in national policy. Someone recently noted that the Agile Manifesto was 20 years old. This was a fancy way of stating the obvious when it comes to experiments: do a little, learn a little, do a little, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,21,20,50],"tags":[214,143,142,172],"class_list":["post-3361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-change","category-learning","category-thinking","tag-agility","tag-change","tag-learning","tag-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361","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=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}