I love Uncle Bob for many reasons. He added one more when I watched his speech at the recent 2014 Mile High Conference. His talk was called, “The Future of Agile if any.” What I took away is that we can’t forget about the inner circle to truly be agile. We need to support developers so that they can master the inner circle.

For those unfamiliar with the inner circle, it is from eXtreme Programming (XP) and refers to coding practices. It consists of Test-Driven Development, Refactoring, Simple Design and Pair Programming.

Watch the video to understand the importance of the inner circle to true agility. But grab some popcorn first, this one is an hour long but entertaining.