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Dave Thomas, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer and Agile Manifesto, on the true spirit of being agile (vs. "doing agile"), mistakes engineering teams make, and common practices of successful teams.

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Segments
[10:29] The genesis of The Pragmatic Programmer
[11:41] People don't know what they want, importance of feedback loops
[22:17] Doing Agile vs. being agile
[26:36] Practices of successful engineering teams
[36:35] Being pragmatic at an early stage startup
[44:10] Things that are still true 24 years after the book was published
[55:25] How does a book define its author's identity?

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5. Don't do agile, be agile | Co-author of Agile Manifesto and Pragmatic Programmer | Dave Thomas

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