 Who saw my presentation yesterday and you came again? Yeah, this presentation is a bit more focused on people were process. So I put it together because I was requested at one time to basically speak at a conference where I needed to balance out the people that were selling tools and selling their processes and It's no you just buy my tool and it'll be perfect agile world and no You should buy use our process and our process coaches You'll be a perfect agile world and and I was I was asked to sort of come to the conference to dispute that in some way give a different opinion Which of course I couldn't resist if you see me over here first presentation so The title of this is and it's awfully low. Sorry It's a bird is a plane. No, it's Superman This is a a opening of actually a radio show going back into the 20s or 30s The Superman series and beginning the TV series which originally in black and white I remember as a child watching this show. So it's really old series And the idea was this is guy flying around in the sky and people down the ground looking up And they're not sure what it is and they keep pointing out. What is that up there? It's a bird is a plane. It's my family figures out a Superman and in some degree I'm feeling agile has the same phenomena It's like, you know, what is that game everybody's doing it? It's what is that then and they have all sorts explanations of it And so particularly actually not because we're in India. They just picture originally But I can't remind us story the blind man sort of feeling the elephant trying to figure out what it is and and drawing All sorts of very spurious conclusions about what it is. It's a wall. No, it's a rope. It's a snake And I actually I actually you know, I have to say that I was speaking to a senior executive I'm actually a leader of a large these large agile consultancy and he was explaining to me what that agile It says agile is all about just writing tests. And I'm like, really? And this was like he's like the CEO of the company. I'm like really? He really didn't understand and he was telling customers this and they were believing him and and they were subscribing to this theory And I get I felt he's one of these blind men that didn't really understand what's going on It has to do with a much much more than just how you write tests And nevertheless, and this is what gets the industry excited is agile is a very productive way to work It's me that it was it's somewhat in dispute then people started having successes And of course it was he have success people marginalize it. It's like over doesn't work for us We have to have bright people that was originally said in 1999 You have to have really smart people you can't do agile and then it was only works for web apps because it was working for web apps So it must work for web but can't work for anything