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davidsabine

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Founder betterteams.fm
Professional Scrum Trainer @Scrumdotorg
Professional Kanban Trainer @prokanban
Formerly @Metrist_io, @CodingDojoDotCo, https://mastodon.social/@digitalocean, @OriumInc

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aral, to Bulgaria
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EU leaving Fediverse (Mastodon & PeerTube) because no one wants to operate the servers

“In recent years, a total of 40 institutions have opened an account with EU Voice, including the EU Data Protection Supervisor, the European Court of Justice and the EU Commission. The video platform, on the other hand, was used by six institutions … the EU institutions were thus the largest group of public institutions in the Fediverse worldwide.”

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/mastodon-und-peertube-eu-macht-fediverse-dicht-weil-niemand-die-server-betreiben-will/

#eu #fediverse #mastodon #peertube

davidsabine,
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@aral, "Pick ten organisations working the common good and give them €5M each. Let them experiment. Let them pivot. Let them cooperate. The only thing you don’t let them do is exit."

You've just described "government subsidy" - it happens all the time and it consistently produces companies that are tethered to the state and reliant on taxpayers. Please produce a list of companies started by a state (ANY state) that can survive on its own revenues?

davidsabine,
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@aral - are you seriously going to argue equivalency between "social media platforms" and military?

Like posting cat pics is as important to a state as protecting its citizens against hostile foreign militaries?

davidsabine, to random
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"Agile" is an adjective. It's not a noun, or a mindset, or a methodology, or a framework. It's just a word that was coined in 2001 by the 17 people who published this website: https://agilemanifesto.org.

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@airwhale @RosannaSibora, bizarre article.

Is the author's position: if there were more collectivism in the world, people wouldn't have felt the manifesto for agile software development was profound in any way?

His complaint about the authors is not, IME, that they're white — but that they're too libertarian.

If that author is right, there should be examples throughout Communist nations (pre 2001) of self-organizing, self-managing teams that produce high quality software. I don't know of any.

davidsabine,
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@airwhale, to this: "Societies who are culturally biased towards cooperation over competition"

(that's a false dichotomy. ex: modern Olympic games are intensly cooperatve and competitive simultaneously.)

Do you mean cooperation versus coercion?

(that's a proper dichotomy)

davidsabine,
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@airwhale, Opposing teams are engaged in a cooperative activity. They agree, for example, to rules of the game.

As for "individual win-lose mindset and larger win-win" : I think I disagree that those are in opposition.

Where people are incentivized/allowed to cooperate & compete, freely engage in commerce & trade…that's win-win. Countries, for example, that have reduced poverty and enabled widespread access to schools, hospitals, rule of law…are those that value individual and civil liberties.

davidsabine,
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@airwhale Oh?

Would you rather live in command economy of North Korea with no property ownership or the market economy of Luxembourg? The Congo or United States? UK in 2024 or when it was all fiefdoms?

Which type of government, which type of economy produces more amenities, more prosperity, more public safety, and better quality of life on average?

What, would you say, might be our "cultural difference" ?

davidsabine, to epic
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Reminder: you're allowed to NOT use jargon.

The most misused, misunderstood terms: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and .

davidsabine, to random
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Do you have questions about ?

Ask away. I'll try to respond to each Q in a new thread.

davidsabine, to random
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The #1 way to learn :

🟢 Pair with a mentor

Years ago, I paired for just 3 days with a mentor and my TDD practice was transformed. Years later, I paired with another and my TDD practice was transformed again.

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Hi all,

Early Release vs. Perfection?

Please discuss.

davidsabine,
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@airwhale Dali was prolific. Maybe you're on to something.

davidsabine, to random
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⭐ Speed vs. Quality

Is this the greatest source of friction between business stakeholders and engineers?

Please discuss.

davidsabine, to random
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If you change (instead of your org) then you've missed the point.

The reason to try Scrum is to reveal the efficacy of your current ways-of-working. Scrum will disrupt environments that suffer dysfunctions like lack of transparency, ambiguous priorities, & invisible work.

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NOTICE: Every time a says "I need more detailed requirements" they've been asked for an .

INSTEAD: Ask a developer "Have you got enough information about this to get started?" and their answer will be "yes" even when the requirement is vague.

davidsabine,
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@tshirtman, in a complex problem environment (e.g., anything to do with computers) the state of "completion" cannot be known until one starts the work.

Requests for an estimate are a trap in which developers must impossibly imagine an "complete" end state and impossibly ignore all the organizational dysfunction they'll encounter as they perform the work.

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https://youtube.com/live/PEsmM8KDgCU

Why I'm not a trainer or coach.

Scaled Agile Inc. is amazing. Their marketing strategy and their business model is finely tuned to extract as much money as possible, for as long as possible, from the largest enterprises on Earth, to merely entrench the status quo while also giving the appearance that a change has taken place.

davidsabine, to science
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An infinite number of mathematicians go into a bar.

The 1st asks for a pint of beer. the 2nd says 'I’ll have half of what he had’.

The 3rd asked 'for half of what they just had’.

Before the 4th - the bar man said 'Stop! Here's 2 pints. Sort it out yourselves!’

davidsabine, to random
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3 myths tell managers about .

  1. "TDD takes longer."
  2. "We can just write the tests after."
  3. "It's difficult to keep the tests up-to-date when requirements are changing."
davidsabine,
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When I hear these arguments, I know the developer has had limited and bad experience with TDD.

davidsabine,
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Most experienced TDD'ers explain that the technique helps them go faster, not slower. The slowest parts of coding is thinking and bug-fixing — TDD helps with both.

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