Comments on: World Agile Qualifications Board

By: Heath Huffman

Heath Huffman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:17:35 +0000

Cory Foyon is correct. Ben is my business partner and half owner of our company Doodlekit (http://doodlekit.com). Doodlekit is an online website builder that ‘WAQB’ used to create their website. They are in no way affiliated with us.

As Cory said, we would appreciate if you would remove your accusations about Ben from the post.

By: Alberto Brandolini

Alberto Brandolini — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:07:16 +0000

Talking about vendors hijacking agile: I peeked into a small conference in Italy. A couple of interesting speech, but mostly vendor crap.
Some excerpts:
- “Our project management tool now supports agile too”
- “We updated our tool to support agile namings”
- “We renamed ‘use cases’ to ‘customers stories’ to support agile”
but also
- “The problem with testing is that too many teams don’t have separate testers”
- “Companies are not using modern estimation technologies such as Function Points”
- “We need more metrics”
- “You can’t test everything in an application”

sad sad sad

By: J. B. Rainsberger

J. B. Rainsberger — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:38:13 +0000

I co-launched Agile Certification Now on April 1, 2007 (!) and not two weeks ago. I won’t reveal my co-designers, opting instead to let them reveal themselves if they wish. We were obviously well ahead of our time. Well over 6,000 people have “requested certification”, and we have had two serious inquiries asking about the certification program in that time.

By: Cory Foy

Cory Foy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:09:55 +0000

Gojko,

I’ve spoken personally with Ben. He really has nothing to do with it. He runs the Doodlekit company, so likely the servers are on the same host, which is pretty normal. I feel very confident that he doesn’t have anything to do with it, and so I’d ask that you remove his information from the above (especially the bit about finding the phone number). I don’t think he should be punished for something one of his customers did, that isn’t in any way illegal. Just annoying.

Cory

By: gojko

gojko — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:37:18 +0000

That makes sense, both those sites look very similar to waqb.