The “D” Word

The agile value of the day is Discipline, the D word. With it we avoid being overwhelmed, snarled, and demotivated. Without it, nothing goes well. Here are my top 8 items in the “fruit of the agile spirit”:

• Refuse to complicate your system.
• Don’t break ranks
  
• Be transparent even in difficulty
• Work in very small steps
• Maintain/increase quality
• Impose simplicity on software.
• Build a better “next month”
• Go home before you break something.

These very simple things can be very difficult, but they are very important and simple nonetheless. When I find myself going wrong, it is because I’ve broken from these simple ideas.