Aria Omidvar on the HEXI Method and Building a Hexiverse for Software Teaming

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Aria Omidvar discusses the HEXI method and its application in software teaming and agile practices.

Chris Lucian and Austin Chadwick discuss all things #agile and product development from a #MobProgramming perspective. What if you could decompose every agile method down to its essential building blocks and recombine them for your own specific context? In this episode, Chris and Austin are joined by Aria Omidvar to explore the HEXI method — a framework-agnostic approach to understanding and applying agile, lean, and software craftsmanship practices through physical hexagon objects and collective sense-making. Aria shares his journey from software craftsmanship and clean code, through Scrum and XP, to discovering Dave Snowden's HEXI method and building his own independent "Hexiverse" — a modular knowledge map that spans Software Teaming, Extreme Programming, Kanban, Modern Synthesis, the Agile Manifesto, and more. He unpacks how breaking methods into reusable hexagonal pieces allows teams (and individuals) to see the connections between ideas, surface what is missing, and navigate the overwhelming landscape of agile methods without falling into method wars. We dig into: What the HEXI method is and how Dave Snowden and Nigel Thurlow introduced it via Scrum.org How Aria…

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Lucian, Austin Chadwick

Guest: Aria Omidvar

Topics covered

• agile
• product development
• HEXI method
• software craftsmanship
• mob programming
• collective sense-making

Keywords

• HEXI method
• agile methods
• software teaming
• mob programming
• lean practices
• clean code
• Extreme Programming

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Scrum.org

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