
#56 The Heart of Agile - with Alistair Cockburn
Being Human
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The Importance of Being Human
In the late 90s, he was looking at methodologies in companies and it became clear to him that people occupied positions didn't have personalities. He asked himself: What's missing such that I can't take this beautiful comprehensive work and fix all problems with it? When you talk about being human, a company is full of people and people have got weirdnesses, right? People are all ski-wompous shaped things. And we make procedures in bureaucracies assuming that people are nice, round, spherical, smooth things - they're not.
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