“I like to take complex ideas and reduce them to simple and fundamental principles,” Kyle said, waving around dim sum at the end of his chop sticks.
“What are you eating?” I asked, instantly realizing I didn’t really want to know.
“Chickens feet.” Kyle replied happily.
I nodded and smiled, I really need a drink.
“And then I like to teach them,” he added.
“The chickens feet?”
“No, the fundamental principles.”
We were waiting for our stir fry at the Golden Wok in North West San Antonio, a restaurant I was promised would be good. Despite being on our own time we couldn’t help but talk about work. Specifically, agile software development and Scrum. I decided to play along, since Kyle clearly had somewhere he wanted to go with this.
“What is the most fundamental principle you can teach about agile?” I asked.
“Simple,” Kyle replied, “Feedback.”
“Feedback?”
“Waterfall is about careful planning,” he continued, waving a finger as if giving a lecture, “and Agile is about feedback systems.”
“Feedback is a core XP value,” I replied. “It has been listed as a core XP value for as long as I can remember.”
“I know, I know,” Kyle interjected, “but don’t you see? It is the core value, not a core value. Riiigggghht? All of the other core values are built on top of feedback systems: simplicity, communication, respect, and courage are really all about feedback.”
I pondered this for a moment, stirring even more sweetener to my tea. I took a swig and desperately wished this restaurant sold beer, or sake, or something. Is feedback really somehow more fundamental? The values are Simplicity, Communication, Feedback, Respect, and Courage. Are they equal? Are we better off seeing feedback as the core value, and the other values as expressions of feedback?
I was saved from further deep thought by the arrival of dinner. I took a bite of dish and made a face.
“This is horrible,” I declared. “My chef is a complete ass.”
Kyle looked puzzled, “Didn’t you get the ‘Do it yourself stir-fry buffet?'”
“Yes,” I replied, “And my chef was an idiot. This tastes like crap.”
Kyle laughed.
“Think feedback.” He added, still not ready to leave his point. “Everything is all about feedback. Show me a problem, economic, political, epistemological, or culinary and I will show you the broken feedback system that created it.”
I nodded, suddenly remembering why I eat out in the first place. If I wanted to cook poor tasting food I could stay at home. I poked at my plate of goo, hoping the prodding would somehow improve the flavor.
“Perhaps you should just order off the menu?” Kyle suggested. “I told my waiter to bring me what he likes the best, and it is delicious.”
I seriously considered the feedback.
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