Pre-Agile Ideas: Jim McCarthy Videos

I've been a fan of Jim McCarthy since I heard a recorded session of his talk at one of the Microsoft developer conferences back in the 90s. The thoughts represented are echoed in Agile practices today.

There is a nice set of short videos at:

http://www.mccarthyshow.com/the-23-rules-of-thumb/

which are also available on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/McCarthyShow#g/u

He also has a recent (Dec 2013) keynote at InfoQ:

Culture Hacking
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/culture-hacking-singapore

Some my selected favorites:

Rule 1 - Don't know what you don't know

Rule 4 - Don't go dark

Rule 5 - Use feature teams
Rule 6 - Use Zero Defect Milestones
Rule 7 - Don't flip the bozo bit

Rule 8 - Beware of a guy in a room

Rule 13 - If you build it, it will ship (daily build)
Rule 23 - Get the team into ship mode