Still an interesting video, though I wish James Coplien would have a less shouting voice: that would be much easier on the ears.
–jeroen
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Entwicklertag 2016: How Agile and OO have lost their way together – James Coplien – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/04
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One Story Per “Sprint” – John Cutler – Medium
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/25
Food for thought: what is the hardest thing in your sprints, why, can you make it less hard?
[WayBack] One Story Per “Sprint” – John Cutler – Medium:
Delivering a “potentially releasable increment” after N days is not “hard”. It is not rocket science. (Almost) any team can do it.
Via: [WayBack] One Story Per “Sprint” – John Cutler – Medium – Marjan Venema – Google+
it is not funny to always feel behind; that it actually is detrimental to productivity to focus solely on efficiency, working hard and being hero’s; that it might be a good idea to start with changing your perspective and doing something which has a chance of being successful (doing a single story) and build from there.
It is not about looking busy, but it is about getting things done without having any fears.
–jeroen
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Our Intuition Says… Instead, Try… – Hacker Noon
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/14
Recommended 2 minute reading: [WayBack] Our Intuition Says… Instead, Try… – Hacker Noon.
It so much remind me of two proverbs. An ancient Chinese one where I only have the Dutch translation for (“Heeft U haast? Ga dan zitten”) that tells you to “sit down” when hurried and an even nicer Swedish one “Skynda långsamt” which literally translates into “Hurry slowly”.
When you’ve seen something work, you tend to view it as more “intuitive”. It’s easy to forget how counterintuitive it might have felt…
Via:
- [WayBack] Our Intuition Says… Instead, Try… – Hacker Noon – Marjan Venema – Google+
- [WayBack] John Cutler on Twitter: When we hit some drag our intuition (may) say _________ Instead try _________ (And before trying, make safety a prerequisite) #modernagile #leanagile #ux #design #devops…
–jeroen
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When a team uses IntegrationTest – always ask what they mean with the term
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/13
Since Integration Tests have been around since the 1980s (yes, that long!), better ask what they mean in your teams.
If they are broad, you might want to re-consider and switch to narrowly scoped ones (but mind your pace).
A while ago, I landed another team, they were doing various kinds of test, but nobody had a good definition of which was what, so I dug up the below article.
Integration tests see if independently developed units of software work correctly when connected. Traditionally broad they are now better narrowly scoped.
Source: [WayBack] IntegrationTest
–jeroen
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The Hard Thing About (Not So) Hard Things – John Cutler – Medium
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/11
Long read, but worth it: [WayBack] The Hard Thing About (Not So) Hard Things – John Cutler – Medium.
TL;DR: if you think these are hard, try them by reading the article:
Via: [WayBack] “what we call “hard” is often indicative of fear, lack of safety, lack of support, and limited ability to practice.” – Marjan Venema – Google+
–jeroen
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Why Your Team Is Not Working as a Team – The Startup – Medium
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/05
Being part of a team can be tough, so this article has Seven ways individualism is getting in their way: [WayBack] Why Your Team Is Not Working as a Team – The Startup – Medium.
Via: [WayBack] “When your top players don’t know how to work together, their individual talents are useless.” – Marjan Venema – Google+ (who is a great coach!)
–jeroen
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Of Course Psychological Safety…But How? – John Cutler – Medium
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/23
Medium indicates it is an 8 minute tread, but since I’m more on the non-people side of the spectrum, digesting it will take quite some time needing multiple reeds.
Via: [WayBack] Of Course Psychological Safety…But How? – John Cutler – Medium – Marjan Venema – Google+
Marjan is a great coach on the personal and agility side of things.
–jeroen
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Today’s Organizations Waste Talent. Here’s How To Change That. | Corporate Rebels
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/21
[WayBack] Today’s Organizations Waste Talent. Here’s How To Change That. | Corporate Rebels
Our research into more than 100 workplace pioneers reveals an important shift –“from job descriptions to talents and mastery”. It’s a clear differentiator between traditional and pioneering organizations.
Traditional organizations focus on fixed job descriptions, and linear careers that move from one description to the next. Progressive organizations focus on “talents & mastery”– and craft jobs and development opportunities around the specific skills employees would love to exploit.
The article goes on how to get the best from your talent and talents in other people.
via [WayBack] Today’s Organizations Waste Talent. Here’s How To Change That. | Corporate Rebels – Marjan Venema – Google+
–jeroen
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Examining Cross-functionality Bias on Software Development Teams | AgileConnection
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/19
Cross-functionality means having all the necessary people and skills on one self-organizing team. Unfortunately, the execution of cross-functionality is often biased. The main traps we fall into are misunderstanding the value of specialization, hero worship, and not “walking the cross-functional talk” as organizations. Let’s examine each of these pitfalls in the hope that your teams may avoid them.
Worthy tread at [WayBack] Examining Cross-functionality Bias on Software Development Teams | AgileConnection
Via: [WayBack] “Cross-functionality is much more than developers and testers working together. It goes against the biases we have of our personal and professional silos… – Marjan Venema – Google+
–jeroen
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Video: How does IT work? – Bol.com Techlab
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/05
Over 1200 people work at bol.com and our IT department consists of more than 350 engineers, clustered into 60 cross-functional teams. These teams are all grouped in fleets and spaces. Staying organized at this scale is definitely a challenge. To make this happen, we optimize for autonomy, mastery, purpose and ownership
Bol.com has posted three videos on how they organise their IT made by [WayBack] Jurriaan Kamer.
- How does IT work @ bol.com? Part 1
- How does IT work @ bol.com? Part 2
- How does IT work @ bol.com? Part 3
It is a quite interesting series to watch and compare it to the organisation(s) you work for.
Source: [WayBack] Video: How does IT work? – Bol.com Techlab
Via: [WayBack] “Staying organized at this scale is definitely a challenge. To make this happen, we optimize for autonomy, mastery, purpose and ownership.” – Marjan Venema – Google+
–jeroen
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