After 20 years of deep meditation in the software engineering discipline, I have finally become the first ever to reach Zen Agile Enlightenment. I hope the following koans will also awaken your inner compass to point towards the sacred golden path.
koan 1.
Alex the contrarian engineer was running in the corporate head office, with Change Request (CR) form in hand, rushing to the Change Approval Board meeting chaired by IT Operations. He accidentally bumped into the Zen Master and stops to apologize. The Zen Master looked briefly at the document and remarked, "IT Operation was born because of CR, yet it lives to kill CR to protect its KPIs".
Alex dropped the form and was instantly Zen Agile Awakened.
koan 2.
Alex the contrarian engineer was panicking during a SEV 1 outage where the server-less functions are leaking file descriptors and crashing. "Where can I find the server to boot ?", Alex frantically asked the Zen Master. The Zen Master instructed Alex to calmly bow down, and swiftly booted Alex in the head.
Alex was instantly Zen Agile Awakened.
koan 3.
Alex the contrarian engineer was ecstatic over how he managed to perfect sprint planning by breaking all complex stories into single story point tickets with each story points correlates to exactly one unit of complexity resulting in precise estimate of one engineer's work day which gave business full transparency and confidence of progress. After showing this to the Zen Master, the Zen Master asked, "how will there be improvement if every sprint completion will always be the same total tickets with same story points ?" then added, "In the darkness, we shall only seek to set light the process to lighten the souls"
Alex's burndown chart in his heart was ablaze, Alex was instantly Zen Agile Awakened.
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