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That's a really bad analogy. People can, and do, play cut-down versions of baseball all the time (in Britain we call this kind of game "rounders". It has very
by abstractbill 15y ago
That's a really bad analogy. People can, and do, play cut-down versions of baseball all the time (in Britain we call this kind of game "rounders". It has very flexible rules, and yet I've never seen it "not work").
- raganwald 15y agoI’ve played rounders in Nigeria. But it isn’t a cut-down version of Baseball, it’s its own game :-) As far as the analogy is concerned, I don’t see it suggesting that you can’t cut Baseball or Agile or anything else down. For example, XP started as a bunch of practices cut down to what its proponents felt were the essentials! What I personally read in the story is that if you are given something new, you have to embrace it for what it is and learn to do thing sits way if you want to benefit from it. If you fight against it at every turn because it feels different or awkward, you are going to end up neutering it, and it will not be a surprise that it doesn’t deliver what you hoped. I have experienced the exact same thing with programming languages. If you try to write Java programs in Clojure, you will walk away very unsatisfied with the result.