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Agile &: Core Agile Practices

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/19

There is a lot of noise in the agility world. Choosing what practices your team does and why can be a tedious job. Each team is different and evolves over time, so you need to find the ones best fitting to your team and repeat that.

The [WayBack] Agile &: Core Agile Practices post has done a pre-selection of practices that could work well for your team. Try them, test them out and find which work well as best practice for your team.

Via: [WayBack] Core Agile Practices – Marjan Venema – Google+

–jeroen

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Interesting take by Robin Message on Twitter: “I wrote an thing: How Scrum disempowers developers (and destroyed Agile)”

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/16

A very interesting first post that promises to become a series: [WayBack] Robin Message on Twitter: “I wrote an thing: How Scrum disempowers developers (and destroyed Agile)”:

The article is at [WayBack] Lambda Cambridge – How Scrum destroyed Agile and part two is at [WayBack] Lambda Cambridge – How Scrum disempowers developers (and destroys agile) already mentioning part three, so it is indeed becoming a series.

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Why Semco Doesn’t Want Your Company To Be Like Semco | Corporate Rebels

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/07

[WayBack] Why Semco Doesn’t Want Your Company To Be Like Semco | Corporate Rebels, but looking at how a traditional hierarchical industrial manufacturing company got turned up-side down and democratised might inspire you.

Via: [WayBack] “The world needs no more Semcos, but it definitely needs more companies who have built their own organizational models and management principles drawn from their real-life, in-the-field experiments… – Marjan Venema – Google+

–jeroen

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Procedural Programming: It’s Back? It Never Went Away – Kevlin Henney [ACCU 2018] – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/05/09

If you haven’t been in the software development arena for the last 50 years, then watch this and learn all “modern” stuff has been around for ages:

Most if it comes from the era of Algol, make, AWK and the famous Structured Programming book (which is not about procedures, but about control flow).

So watch Procedural Programming: It’s Back? It Never Went Away – Kevlin Henney [ACCU 2018] – YouTube

Slide deck: Sideshare: Procedural Programming: It’s Back? It Never Went Away – Kevlin Henney [ACCU 2018]

Then read [WayBack] ISBN 9780122005503 – Structured Programming (A.P.I.C. studies in data processing, no. 8)

Via: [WayBack] Kevlin Henney – Google+

–jeroen

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Understanding how Design Thinking, Lean and Agile Work Together | ThoughtWorks

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/19

Many more things to learn and practice, especially on how these concepts interact, how to make things quantifiable and especially practice them in ways that people intrinsically understand how to:

The ideas of agile are great. It’s the way it has been codified into rituals and certifications and rolled out mindlessly that misses the point. When people talk about Lean, the conversation often ends at process optimization, waste, and quality, and misses so much of what the Lean mindset offers. Design Thinking is held high as the new magic trick of design facilitators.

Source: [WayBack] Understanding how Design Thinking, Lean and Agile Work Together | ThoughtWorks.

The article has some nice graphics to illustrate the points (some are below) and points to a lot more links for further learning.

Via [WayBack] ThoughtWorks on Twitter: “Instead of focusing on applying a process, teams ought to challenge how they think and try new things, embrace the things that work, and learn from the things that don’t. #Agile #DesignThinking “

–jeroen

 

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Stop using anemic daily stand-up questions | Software on a String

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/15

TL;DR:

Reminding everybody of the actual purpose of the daily stand-up and of the goal(s) you have for the sprint may be all that’s needed to give the shortened versions some much needed context and focus.

Always read the Scrum guide, as it states the purpose of this meeting:

The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours.

Source: [WayBack] Stop using anemic daily stand-up questions | Software on a String

via: [WayBack] Marjan Venema – Google+

–jeroen

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Code Review Checklist – CodeProject

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/20

Still relevant: [WayBack] Code Review Checklist – CodeProject

[WayBack]  Best “Everything Else” Article of November 2016 Ebenezar John Paul – Code Review Checklist… – CodeProject – Google+

–jeroen

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Iterations Mean Rapid Feedback — Agile Heretic Episode Five

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/08

Though sprints help maintaining some rhythm, don’t let them dumb you down:

Have you ever run for real, then run on a treadmill? Running for real means that you have a pace, hopefully sustainable, and off you go. If…

Source: [WayBack] Iterations Mean Rapid Feedback — Agile Heretic Episode Five

Via: [WayBack] Iterative development does not mean timeboxed or repetitive development. – Marjan Venema – Google+ (who is a great coach)

Which reminded me I should order and read [WayBack] Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life: Jim Benson, Tonianne DeMaria Barry: 9781453802267: Amazon.com: Books

–jeroen

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Is the era of management over? | World Economic Forum

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12

Hopefully the next few years will finally show what the incremental software development and evolutionary management has been trying to advocate since the late 1950s and 1970s: hierarchies do not work and purpose works better for the vast majority than being in a triangle.

The first slide below is from Thoughtworks who has been doing these changes for several decades now.

Traditional hierarchies are giving way to more open and creative workplace cultures.

[WayBack] Is the era of management over? | World Economic Forum

That’s the only way to cope with complexity as talent dilutes in growing organisations.

Via:

–jeroen

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jessie frazelle on Twitter: “Hire the people who will automate themselves out of a job, then just keep giving them jobs.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/31

This is what DevOps is all about: [WayBack] jessie frazelle on Twitter: “Hire the people who will automate themselves out of a job, then just keep giving them jobs.”

I had seen the tweet before, but forgot to save it. Jonas Bandi reminded me of it at [WayBack] Weekend Reader: End of Year Edition – reality-loop.

Jessie is doing great work. For instance, she developed and published contained.af, and nobody captured the flag yet: [WayBack] jessie frazelle on Twitter: «A year ago I made contained.af and it’s launched over 128,000 containers & no one has retrieved the flag».

The game runs in a container, gives you console access and has a bunch of questions. Still need to dig deeper in it, as it is a fascinating set-up. If you like to try it:

Wishing you a year where nobody captures your flags (:

–jeroen

via [WayBack] I just published my “Weekend Reader: End of Year Edition” – Jonas Bandi – Google+

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