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The #Agile Manifesto is now 25 years old - happy anniversary! 🥳
https://agilealliance.org/25-years-ago-a-manifesto-was-born/

25 Years Ago, a Manifesto Was Born | The Agile Manifesto | Agile Alliance
A concise history of the Agile Manifesto’s creation at Snowbird, told through participant recollections and the pivotal moments that shaped its four values, 25 years later.

Memo: Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro informs staff of layoffs; source: around 1,000 jobs are expected to be eliminated as the company unifies marketing (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Layoffs Hit Disney: 1,000 Jobs Cut as Josh D’Amaro Unveils Streamlining Push
"Given the fast-moving pace of our industries, this requires us to constantly assess how to foster a more agile and technologically-enabled workforce to meet tomorrow's needs," the CEO told staff Tuesday.

Dave Thomas is one of the authors of The Pragmatic Programmer, one of the key people who brought Ruby from Japan to the western world (through "the pickaxe book", Programming Ruby),  one of the authors of the Agile manifesto, and one of my software heros, among other things.
Like many of the original Agile manifesto writers, he's pretty excited about how LLMs/Agents are opening up more possibilities, not ending the software profession.
"Castles in the Air: It's Still Just as Rewarding
It's Still Programming
I was expecting to hate using Claude. I just knew it would dehumanize the process, draining away all the fun stuff, turning what was once creative into a mechanical slog.
I was wrong. Coding with AI is fun. In fact, to me it feels like I'm having more fun than I have had in a while. So I took some notes over the last month to work out why.”
#agenticAI
https://media.pragprog.com/newsletters/2026-03-25.html

@… @… And they have the gall to tell you with a straight face that’s what it means to be agile.
Last decade it was Jira, now it’s LLMs, but in all cases there are fools who will confidently tell you the meaning …

»So, without further ado, join me on a journey of imaginization.«
Nein, kein Youtube-Video. Das ist das Ende der Einführung des Buchs "Imaginization" von Gareth Morgen, erschienen 1993. Es geht darin um einen neuen, von ihm erdachten und "Imaginization" genannten Management-Stil. Bei mir im Regal steht das Buch dort, wo sich eine Art "Ursuppe" von Agile und angrenzenden Themen versammelt.

@… thanks.
Also, I'm so old that I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone remember what I meant.
Wellness instructors might label this as 'agile' – freedom to forget allows focus on the future. I might put that on my CV.
@…

Eine coole Gelegenheit, bei Brack.Alltron die agile Zusammenarbeit in der Logistik anzuschauen.
Wer den Weg nicht scheut, es lohnt sich sicher.
11. März in Willisau (dort wo die Ringli her kommen).
Anmeldung ist begrenzt, first comes, first serves.
#swissICT

Moderne IT: Ein Besuch bei Brack.Alltron

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 23. Februar 1967 testen die #USA die Atombomben "Persimmon" u. "Agile". Die Operation #Latchkey war eine Serie von 38 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests,…

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Sub-Doppler rubidium atom cooling using a programmable agile integrated PZT-on-SiN resonator
Andrei Isichenko, et al.

There are a lot of takeaways from this:
1. Organizing locally gives you a massive advantage because you will always know your local area better than ICE ever can.
2. Be agile. You can always change tactics faster than a centralized organization.
3. Organize now. The sooner you build your networks, the sooner you can learn.
4. Identify ICE facilities and organize monitoring them directly.
But I think the most interesting one that's not explicitly in there, one that's hinted at the last one, is to go on the offensive. ICE is already afraid. If we all take the anger we have at the murder of #ReneGood, find the local ICE facility that they'll stage from, and bring that anger to #OccupyICE we might be able to just shut the whole thing down preemptively. Completely stop all ICE operations across the US. If they want to fight, they can fight *with everyone, all at once.*
Shut down their ability to operate at all. They have a logistics pipeline. They need cars, they need oil in those cars, they need to be able to move those cars to target areas. They also need money to pay those agents. All of those can be disrupted.
The regime needs your money and labor to maintain the illusion of legitimacy. They chose a bad time because you can hit both of those at once *right now* with a combination of #GeneralStrike and #TaxStrike, and then #BoycottEverything.
The regime is weaker than it's ever been. It's flailing. Their own base is demanding the release of the #EpsteinFiles. Their last gasp attempt to prevent the radical change that's coming is just to ethnically cleanse the US back to the 50's (which is what they always meant by "Make America Great Again"). Trump will do anything to stay in power, even if it means killing everyone on Earth in the process. But Americans can end it now by going on the offensive.
Now is the time.
#USPol