#Agile
Me and one of my very talented colleagues got an article published in the latest #isaca magazine. It’s about #governace in #agile settings. Happy to have started blogging about #GRC as I have many ideas :)
https://isaca.nl/isaca-journal/governance-in-agile-teams/
Feedback (either constructive or cynical) is appreciated!
Curious about how to kickstart an #opensource #community within your organization?
Natnael Belay, Technical Program Manager at Google, shares his expertise & experiences in this #InfoQ #podcast.
🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/3LERmEX
Just cancelled a retro due to meeting fatigue. That felt pretty good. "Hey Scrum... your mother!" #Scrum #Agile #softwaredevelopment
Just getting started with Agile? Are you looking to learn the fundamental principles and practices used by #Agile teams today? Then our next online #AgileBasics session with Taghi Paksima is perfect for you! Only $29, or FREE for Agile Alliance members.
The value of our work in software. Drew's first tattooing mistake. Brad's take on your "capacity problem." Is given/when/then in the wrong hands? The faith you may have misplaced. Was that a Steely Dan reference? Helicopter parenting, TDD, TCR, scaling, and (of course) microservices.
There's a little something here for everyone.
#agile #podcast #software #softwareengineering #productmanagement #technicalagility
@tayledras @seanpatrickphd #agile? I prefer the term #fragile.
Discovering the synergy between #SystemTheory and #Agile practices can lead to transformative results! System theory helps us understand complex systems as interconnected wholes. In #Agile, it can aid in visualizing how various elements - teams, processes, tools - interact to deliver value. For instance, System thinking can streamline inter-team communication, making the Agile Release Train more efficient! #SAFe #Scrum #ART #ValueDelivery 🚀🔗
Sur le thème L'agilité de demain, je ferai l'ouverture d'Agile Grenoble avec :
L'agilité de la décroissance.
Ce sera le 22 novembre. Ça donnerait le temps d'y aller à vélo mais on va plutôt y aller en voiture électrique.
#agile #decroissance
https://claudeaubry.fr/post/2023/agile-demain/
Falls Ihr jemanden an der TU Dresden kennt: Am 24.11.2023 gibt es für die Lehrenden und weiteren Mitarbeitenden der TU Dresden einen Tag, an dem man #agile #Hochschuldidaktik und Menschen, die sich dafür interessieren, praxisnah kennen lernen kann.
https://www.hd-sachsen.de/anmeldung/agile-didaktik-praktisch-angewandt
@tudresden @tuuwi @IfG_TUD @tux @bits_und_baeume_dresden
Exploring system theory can greatly enhance our Agile practices. By understanding interactions and interdependencies, we can streamline project management, improve problem-solving, and encourage adaptive change. #SystemTheory #Agile #InnovativeThinking
"Predictions are difficult, especially about the future." 🚀
That's why #Agile means investing time and effort in the #Review and #Retrospective.
#AgileCheese, however, focuses on waste elimination. With #AgileTimeTravel, you can revisit the past and make adjustments that conventional #Scrum couldn't fathom. Thanks to #AtomicScrum and #PersonalityVirtualization, we ensure that the #SprintRetrospective and #SprintReview are dedicated to making the right #cheese! #FirstTimeRight.
"If guns keep getting used in suicides and mass murders, we as a society at some point have to look at the culture we are promoting. We can not just sit back and say, 'People are using guns wrong.'"
https://singhpr.medium.com/the-anti-agile-manifesto-8dae4cd83485 #modern #agile
The deepest tutorial and explanation about EventStorming, straight from the inventor: Introducing EventStorming https://leanpub.com/introducing_eventstorming #books #agile #management #startups
One of my favourite topics next to #cyber , #projectmanagement
Have you heard of #Agile value streams and why you should use it for your next program, project or change?
https://open.substack.com/pub/rakkhi/p/agile-value-streams?r=1afqp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
A really non-obvious point from @johannarothman, and a great takeaway from Drunk Agile 😍 ‘I'd never realised that high WIP is the source of much of the team dysfunction. The higher the WIP, the more management pressure to work alone—even if that's the wrong action.’ Read the rest over here https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2023/09/want-better-and-faster-results-increase-team-size-and-reduce-wip/ #agile
Want Better and Faster Results? Increase Team Size and Reduce WIP https://jrothman.com/mpd/2023/09/want-better-and-faster-results-increase-team-size-and-reduce-wip/
#agile #WIP
Daily Scrums: Synchronization Meetings, Not Status Meetings · Mike Cohn's Blog https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/daily-scrum-not-just-for-scrummasters
Hey! My talk for this year's Agile on the Beach is now available for viewing on YouTube 🏖
You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JELgj-RBEpk
Get the slides here: https://bit.ly/unlearninghtw
„Wir arbeiten Agile“ sind in der Reihenfolge meine persönlichen Unwörter des Jahrhunderts. :blobfoxfacepalm:
"Collaboration and creative thinking is often substituted by process because its a linear, ordered approach and creates the illusion of control."
https://ahmbuckley.medium.com/21-concepts-that-have-helped-me-as-an-agile-coach-2b6e0296ca5c #agile #process
🌐 #Innovation needs #Culture! 🚀
In #business, #innovation is the North Star guiding us. It's not about #TechGadgets; it's about cultivating a culture where ideas thrive and creativity flourishes.
#AgileCheese introduces #CultureCrafting, where every team member is an #agile artisan crafting the fabric of innovation. Just as diverse ingredients make a delicious #cheese, a culture of openness and collaboration yields innovations.🧀✨#InnovationCulture #AgileMindset
Engineers, remember: A big task isn't just intimidating, it's also a risk. Reduce the size of your work items to make them manageable and transparent. Your process will thank you! 🛠️ #MinimizeBatchSize #SoftwareEngineering #Agile
"Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow" by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais
This is the book that I recommended in my previous post. I hope you find it useful. It is highly rated on Amazon and GoodReads.
#agile , #softwarearchitecture #development
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44135420-team-topologies?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ExsBxhvevL&rank=1
Anyone else on #OctopusAgile not had tomorrow’s prices yet?
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I just posted about #OpenSpaceBeta and why it is wise to obtain #supervision as a 1st-time OpenSpace Beta "Master of Ceremonies”. If you look at employing OpenSpace Beta for the 1st time, this post In the BetaCodex group on LinkedIn is for you: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7112370762115620865?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop #betacodex #transformation #change #changemanagement #orgdev #collaboration #agile #agiletransformation #agilescaling
🤝 Nurturing strong bonds in the world of #AgileAttachment!
Much like secure attachment in psychology, strong team bonds are vital in #Agile. #AgileCheese fosters these bonds, allowing teams to trust and rely on each other. Just as in secure attachments, teams in #Agile have a safe base to explore and innovate their #cheese. 🌟🧀
Let's build secure, thriving teams where innovation flourishes and success becomes our trusted companion! 🚀 #AgileTeams #TrustInAgile
"Hell! Most people can't even sprint a short race. And I'm also talking about software."
https://medium.com/@noriller/sprints-the-biggest-mistake-of-software-engineering-34115e7de008 #agile #scrum
Ken Schwaber über ein mögliches Update vom Scrum Guide: https://kenschwaber.wordpress.com/2023/09/25/scrum-guide/
Woof. Day 1 of quarterly PI planning down, 2 days to go. I'm *tired*. But good progress being made.
Whats your favorite flavor of #AGILE #Programming ?
Interesting Links of the Week #39 for 2023!
Some of my favorites this week:
* How to Become So Efficient That People Run from You
* Three Free Things You Should Do Before You Have Your Next SQL Server Performance Problem
That last one about SQL Server? Yup, I learned a couple of really cool things!
Once you've checked out those posts, keep reading!
https://samestuffdifferentday.net/2023/09/25/Interesting-links-of-the-week-2023-39/
Self-OH: Every Sprint could be the last!
#relationshipleaks #agile
Exploring the psychological landscape, lack of trust can lead to a surge in anxiety and insecurity. It's like walking on a tightrope without a safety net. Trust is the bedrock of any relationship, personal or professional. When it's missing, it can trigger a cascade of negative emotions, making us question our worth and abilities. Let's foster environments of trust and transparency to mitigate these effects. #psychology #trustissues #anxiety #insecurity #mentalhealth #agile
Self-OH: Jeder Sprint könnte der letzte sein!
#beziehungsleaks #agile
Microservices Retrospective – What We Learned (and Didn’t Learn) from Netflix
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-netflix-industry/
"I'm going to talk to you about microservices retrospective: what we learned and what we didn't learn from Netflix. I was at Netflix from 2007 to the end of 2013. ... It turns out, Netflix was extremely agile, but was not extreme, and was not agile. We did extreme and agile with a lowercase e and a lowercase a..." -- #AdrianCockcroft #infoQ
Navigating the complexities of communication can be challenging, especially when trust is absent. Lack of trust can create barriers, leading to misunderstandings and misinterpretations. It's crucial to foster an environment of trust to ensure clear, effective communication. Trust is the foundation of any successful team or relationship. Let's work on building trust, breaking down barriers, and enhancing communication. #trust #communication #barrier #misunderstanding #agile
Struggling with #collaboration challenges?
Emily Webber dives into 3 common #AntiPatterns she has observed in more than one organization.
Discover the symptoms these antipatterns cause and learn how to counteract them!
#InfoQ article: https://bit.ly/48pITPB
🇮🇹 Ho pubblicato il primo draft in Italiano della ...
- Micro-introduzione a Complexity-Thinking
per leader, team e organizzazioni che voglio prosperare nella complessità quotidiana smettendo di trattare il lavoro come ordinato e lineare
=> https://leanpub.com/risolviproblemidifficiliabbracciandoilcomplexity-thinking
Per ora solo lista di capitoli
Feedback e commenti benvenuti
/cc @leanpub
#Complexity #ComplexityThinking #SystemsThinking #HumanComplexity #Agility #OrganisationalAgility #Agile #Lean #ModernLeadership #ModernOrganisations
Navigating personal and professional relationships without trust is like sailing a ship without a compass. Trust absence can lead to misunderstandings, conflicts, and ultimately, relationship breakdowns. It hampers open communication, stifles creativity, and impedes growth. In a professional setting, it can even impact productivity and team morale. Let's foster an environment of trust, transparency, and respect. #trust #relationship #communication #productivity #agile
Looking at agile through the eyes of a designer, it’s easy to spot the problem: the dogma of shipping small stuff fast so that you can gather feedback on what to do next more quickly. Agilists believe that finished software is not only the best way to deliver value, but also the best way to learn and iterate.
In reality, it is probably the worst way.
#UXDesign #ProductDesign #Agile
https://uxdesign.cc/successful-iteration-requires-going-beyond-agile-81ef0bc80798
Two things I keep wondering about:
1) It is emphasized that the method is for smaller teams, but it seems that the authors of the agile manifesto worked for large corporations and seemed to have been quite prestigious already. So for smaller projects but in large corporations, maybe?
2) There is an absence of design, UX and end-users in the methodology; there is a "customer" who has changing wishes to which one needs to react, but that’s not the person using it, but paying for it.
Respond to change over following a plan.
But responding to change does not mean dropping work at a moment's notice when you register the whims of customer, customer support, business, or a domain expert.
A Sprint can be short, to be able to respond to market insights: especially if your business model is to disrupt your market.
But have some respect for your ability to envision a meaningful change through a unit of work that constitutes a better outcome.
The world does not need "new work"
The world needs "free work" - organizations that are run in a way to free human beings from the shackles of paternalism, coercion and command-and-control. People are made for freedom. People deserve freedom.
#BetaCodex means designing organizations for human freedom.
Hoe meer een organisatie een agile werkwijze gebruikt, hoe meer de noodzaak ontstaat voor een andere besturing van het portfolio van programma’s. Met deze maatregelen kun je portfoliomanagement optimaler gebruik laten maken van een #agile organisatie.
https://www.agconnect.nl/tech-en-toekomst/development/agile-werken-dan-ook-agile-portfolio-management
#sweary #lightweight #agile #planning
What it says on the tin. Focus on the shit to be done, split it into small pieces of shit to be done, no need to estimate, because it needs to be done.
Organization-wide agility does not require #AgileScaling, of course. It requires coherent decentralization and a set of principles that covers way more ground than the so-called #Agile Manifesto". The good news: Such a set of principles already exists.
#Agile intro - slides from my KTH talk - Crisp's Blog
https://blog.crisp.se/2023/09/20/henrikkniberg/agile-intro-slides-from-my-kth-talk
#FreeDownload the #InfoQ eMag [The Platform Engineering Guide: Principles and Best Practices]: https://bit.ly/3SqCL24
"Oki team, here is the project we need you to complete, and the deadline we want it completed. We understand it is a strict deadline, but you have all taken the #agile classes, and you are an agile team now, so this should be no problem"
- The true reason why all companies are all "agile" these days.
What I love about the #agile community: Sharing Means Caring - knowledge is growing when it is shared
I just came from a call with Andra, she recently gave a free webinar about some facilitation tricks and we had a great time exchanging ideas!
She is doing a newsletter about #facilitation and also has a blog on substack:
https://teamflow.substack.com/p/beyond-to-do-lists-how-to-prioritize
Found this quote really helpful, in preparation for a workshop tomorrow, where the team can't do timeboxed spikes cause "they don't know everything..."
"The essence of "the #agile mindset" is a specific kind of curiosity based on the belief that we DO NOT have complete information and DON'T know everything in advance.
This leads to rational experimentation and an overall empirical approach
Standard mindset vs Agile mindset:
🦄 I know everything vs I DO NOT know everything
1/x
Interesting Links of the Week 2023-38
I continue to be impressed by the quality of content I find each week.
Check it out!
https://samestuffdifferentday.net/2023/09/18/Interesting-links-of-the-week-2023-38/
Loving it ❤️ The Agile Paradoxon #agile #religion #work
https://yewtu.be/Bez7wmAsxjE?t=5
"The first is the fundamental agile principal. We assume the future is unknowable and therefore our assumptions are possibly wrong. From this we can derive the rest."
https://medium.com/@mcarlson_sb/fundamental-principles-of-agility-d2ad0b28b434 #agile
For the past 6 months, I've been an interim Product Owner next to my job as a developer, and I don't recommend the amount of context switching that entails. A PO should mainly be busy with the puzzle of combining possible product directions amidst uncertainties and dependencies, whereas a developer should mainly be busy with the problems at hand. Of course a PO needs to validate progress and a dev needs to anticipate, so there is an overlap, but the focus is different. #dev #po #agile #scrum
I've been quiet here, busy working on some personal projects.
I just got roped into conducting a half-day workshop on "Agile Leadership."
Personally, I think that term is a bit of a joke, but what do you think would be valuable to cover for people at the Director level?
A colleague posted this on LinkedIn. I wanted to share here and post some questions:
What are the levels of #scram ?
How scrammy do you have to be to land a good job?
If I scramble things daily, can I get #scram points?
I could go on, but I'll leave it up to the fediverse to add other important questions.
So many people associate #agile with the notion of going faster, 'stepping on the gas', but that points at a fundamental misunderstanding of the power of agile - it's the steering wheel, not the accelerator. Being responsive to feedback, course correcting with new information, pulling up and 'getting out' all come from an agile mindset and way of working. Don't let anyone tell you differently. More here https://architectelevator.com/transformation/agile-steering/
OMG!
"Scaled Agile is considering expanding the treatment of AI within the #SAFe framework".
Now they start to assimilate weird stuff into that so-called #Agile Scaling Framework.
What does #AI have to do with scaling Agile? Do they wanna make PO/PM feed a Chatbot to get User Stories and Features more efficiently?
In other cases they also don't really care for Technologies.
Again this seems like utilizing another hype topic to promote that crap.
💡 Can a #DesignSprint's outcomes be condensed into a powerful two-hour session?
Discover the answer in this insightful #InfoQ #podcast with Teresa Cain & Shane Hastie: https://bit.ly/44PfxXN
At The Langdon Lemma’s back to school night his teachers told us the kids start their day with a meeting they run themselves, during which they figure out who’ll do which classroom chore and recognize each other for being kind or helpful or whatever.
And friends, I almost laughed out loud. Even the wee ones are #Agile now, doing their wee standup.
he literally talked about how they knew Waterfall was bad in the 50's. what great history here https://www.craiglarman.com/wiki/downloads/misc/history-of-iterative-larman-and-basili-ieee-computer.pdf #dev #agile
"One Dancing XP Guy Found a Fix to Dark Agile – Are You Ready to Follow?" Join us for our next online #AgileTechTalks session with Ron Quartel this Wednesday, September 13.
Blogged: “Agile history, it matters, right?” at FroGS conf
https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2023/agile-history-it-matters-right-at-frogs-conf/
#FrogsConf #Agile
Recording of my talk at #JavaZone on #sociotechnical systems, #OpenSystemsTheory, and #agile is available at https://vimeo.com/861989662
Is there a (oral) history of agile development (particularly scrum)? There are many interesting assumptions in the concept and methods, and I am curious what shaped them
The idea that a work group can only be effective if it can manage its own coordination - often called #selforganization nowadays - can be traced back at least to the 1960's (Emery and Trist).
That's more than four decades before the #agile manifesto and it was not seen as a goal, but as a necessity.
@joeposaurus found this in my meme folder, seems relevant after our discussion this morning ;)
can anyone recommend some #agile and #kanban training in #Melbourne?
There is a contradiction at the heart of lowercase-a #agile - it wants to simultaneously deliver value (be right) and learn (be wrong). As a result of trying to do both, it often succeeds at neither.
The remedy is to untangle discovery from delivery - with #UX methods that are more effective at managing rapid feedback loops.
#UserResearch #ProductManagement
https://spavel.medium.com/successful-iteration-requires-going-beyond-agile-81ef0bc80798
Great article on #senior #engineers and measuring #contribution instead of #storypoints - I couldn't agree more.
"The Worst #Programmer I Know - Dan North & Associates Ltd"
https://dannorth.net/2023/09/02/the-worst-programmer/
#engineering #engineers #software #development #agile #story #team #management #dev #complexity #teams #architecture
Here's the thing: the "original waterfall methodology paper" (which does not even use the word Waterfall) advocated for an iterative approach to software development. Unfortunately, nobody got past figure 2 of 10 and the DOD compounded the problem by turning the misconception into a standard. In other words, Agile is nothing new. It is a rediscovery borne out of not practicing RTFM. #agile #waterfall #softwaredevelopment
everyone reply to this toot with bad #Agile pickup lines
It seems.... too easy. I'll start:
Oh yeah, baby, I'd like to prioritize that backlog.
I appreciate #agile software development practices. Nonetheless I question the common narrative of the past when the waterfall was supposed to have ruled the land.
Effective developers have been using iterative software development practices long before agile emerged. Waterfall processes were advocated by some, and I am sure some teams tried to apply them, but the "in the past, we all used waterfall and the people suffered" sounds too much like a story, not history.
🪦 The death of Agile
➥ @allenholub
You can't process your way out of communication problems. #agile
if you think about it, #agile is an ideology that claims that if you hire some coaches and have each developer devote extra hours each week exclusively to management issues, you can become as productive in any language ecosystem as you would be in #lisp, excluding those extra hours developers have to dedicate to keeping up with the whole thing.
Thinking back to my "Unlearning How To Write" talk from this year's Agile on the Beach, I already have some ideas about how I could improve it just that touch more 🤔 <Insert something about continuous improvement here 😉.>
If you missed my talk and want the slides and handout, head here ✨ https://bit.ly/unlearninghtw
The running with scissors analogy:
Go slow holding something sharp or fragile
Run fast holding something wrapped safely
If your system is more robust, you can innovate more quickly without spending so much time on tests, coordination and firefighting.
Interesting Links of the Week 34
Great stuff last week from @ploeh, @oskardudycz, @khalidabuhakmeh, @cwoodruff, @jeremydmiller, @timbray and more.
https://samestuffdifferentday.net/2023/08/21/Interesting-links-of-the-week-2023-34/
Trigger warning: McKinsey seems to think that security is in “the outer loop” which sounds like it can be tacked on at the end. Also talented developers should not be bother by design session and focus on the code. WTF? https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/yes-you-can-measure-software-developer-productivity #notmyagile #agile
Just got my ticket to Agile Open SoCal! It’s a virtual, open space event in September to talk and learn about #agile methodologies. Discover new topics to explore. Share what you’ve been experimenting with. Bring your challenges and let’s work through them together. Such a good deal at only $20. Hope to see you there!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/agile-open-socal-2023-virtual-event-tickets-666225497397
I love User Story Mapping!🌟
1. Shared vision & goals🎯
2. Enhanced collaboration🤝
3. Adaptive planning🔄
Dive deeper with my blog post: https://www.bluefruit.co.uk/processes/how-to-do-user-story-mapping-and-why/
(Includes Miro template for remote teams.)