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Noise from an Investment Bank

Agile, no its JFDI

A colleague has invented JFDI a new process/framework (call it what you will).  I think he should patent the idea, start marketing the concept, and start selling training courses to the investment banks.  Good luck to him, I think he onto a winner of an idea.  I'd add the following to the JFDI manifesto:

  • Kind of working software with absolute no documentation.
  • Guaranteed bugs
  • Customer Collaboration only when its career and bonus enhancing.
  • Responding to change only when absolutely necessary, and only when directed by 3 levels of management (command and control)
  • Guaranteed delivery of the software on the date required.
Posted: Oct 26 2005, 09:05 AM by mdavey | with 4 comment(s)
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tdp said:

It's not limited to the banking industry, its rife.

Maybe we should do a wiki, the JFDI wiki. A few more for the list.

Make sure all your work mates subscribe to JFDI and oppose everything else.
Zero testing and zero time for testing
Zero design of any shape or form and zero time for design
Fix bugs as the occur even if its misson critical and costs them money.
# October 26, 2005 4:42 AM

pinakin said:

As much I as I would like to take credit for JFDI, I'm afraid you'd have to agree that it's been around for many a year before even I started working in computing :)
# October 26, 2005 5:42 PM

johnsnolan said:

Paul Dyson tried to buy me jfdi.com about 5 years ago as it is one of my favourite phrases - though in an Agile way, of course :-)

Someone alredy had it, a leadership company who say F is for Focus...yeah, right.
# October 28, 2005 11:57 AM

Andy Stopford said:

Ted has a new one, WHISKEY, Why the Hell Isn't Somebody Koding Everything Yet. - http://blogs.tedneward.com/PermaLink,guid,c62e0fc1-1fd3-41c5-baf7-bc6094a87ecf.aspx
# October 31, 2005 2:59 PM
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