Let me just share a couple of quotes from the Key Note speech of Ivar Jacobson at XP2009
- Architecture without executable code is just an hallucination – about architecture
- Whatever you do, you are not done until you have verified that you did what you wanted to do – about testing
- Law of nature: people don’t read documents – about documentation
- With 2 days of training (and some thousand €), in my C.V. I can add to my PhD in SW Engineering a wonderful SCRUM Master certification – about pros and cons of certifications
Do you agree?
PierG
UPDATE: I changed a sentence that might have seen as offensive for someone
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May 31, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Luca Minudel
It were about ’97 when Ivar Jacobson was giving his talk in Milan for Rational Software titled “L’ORGANIZZAZIONE DELLO SVILUPPO SOFTWARE”.
He predicted that coding activities would disappear replaced by code automatically generated from UML architecture models …
Quite the opposite position of agile software development
It looks like Ivar Jacobson now is just jumping on the Agile bandwagon just because now is mainstream
> SCRUM Master certification training about bullshit
bad things is the envy :> Ivar just get one and you will like it too 😀
+ personally I’ve learned a lot of thing during my CSM training by Joseph Pelrine, after years I’m still using ideas collected during that training to direct my professional grow
+ people learn agile more from other experienced people that from books and that training helped me to build a network of trusted muster to learn from
– I’ve seen people taking a CSM training and coming back with the same misunderstanding that he had before – Just ask the CSM course trainer his evaluation for an attender and you will get the info you need 🙂
June 1, 2009 at 10:18 am
IvanF
I saw the Ivar presentation at ALM Days in Microsoft Italy on March 2009 and he is really a showman.
I think that the fact that he’s changing is idea in order to jump on Agile bandwagon is a sign of great intelligence, if a when Agile methodologies (or more in detail SCRUM) will be replaced by something new, let’s see how many persons will cheange their attitude and how many will remain agile fundamentalists 🙂
I know maaaaany people that still love waterfall also if it proved to be be a not well suited methodology for many project.
I’m so politically correct eh ? 🙂
June 1, 2009 at 10:34 am
Luca Minudel
@IvanF
> changing … is a sign of great intelligence
totally agree
I’m more scared about people claiming ideas that they do not really know/understand or believe just for short term convenience
June 8, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Luca Minudel
apart from this it look like the idea of Ivar could be basically wrong:
http://www.ddj.com/architect/217701907;jsessionid=QFTH3UZP4XWQ0QSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?_requestid=246061