Agile

I passed my certification test on Design Thinking and got a nifty badge. Although it is subject to the same hype as agile practices in general, I like the general approach of Design Thinking and believe it can play a role in building innovative solutions. The key point is that anyone can be creative about desigining a solution. Creativity is a human process that isn’t limited to those who have designer or architect or creative(shudder) on their business card.

All of my professional work is with enterprise software. This can be very interesting due to the scale of problems and challenges of security, scalability, etc. It can also be enormously frustrating. I found this humorous manifesto that describes the experience of trying to perform agile development for enterprise customers. What I like about it is that it points out that there are reasons for all of the process and procedure that go beyond Kafkaesque nonsense.