Agile is to Psychoanalysis what Continuous Delivery is to Behaviorism: A New Vision of Software Development
Exploring the confluence of psychology and modern software methodologies: a fresh, game-changing approach.
How many companies are trying to implement Agile only to end up with a half-baked Agile implementation? How is it that almost twenty years later, we still don’t have solid frameworks and coaches that still don’t achieve fully agile transformations?
What if the problem is the focus, and how do we try to solve the problem?
That is why I want to explore the these two branches of psychology: psychoanalysis and behaviorism. I aim to find a novel solution to this dilemma. Yet, great disclaimer, I am not a psychologist, neither a medical doctor, so anything that I will present here is just the intuition that I had build based on my understandings and how I can relate them to our science.
Psychoanalysis, founded by Sigmund Freud in the early 20th century, is a therapeutic and theoretical approach aimed at delving deep into the human mind. Its central premise revolves around the idea that our behaviors, thoughts, and feelings are profoundly influenced by unconscious desires and conflicts. So, somehow, psychoanalysis, is the…
