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Lean & Agile Coaching informed by Complexity Theory & Systems Thinking, spiced with ... way too much to mention here.

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bbak, to random
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If Agility is the ability to respond to changes in a meaningful way, a huge part of that consists of the time it takes until this response is in the hands of the customer so that a feedback loop can form.

If that's true, what's the value of Discovery Epics or Stories, Spikes, Dual Track whatever...

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bbak,
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... except for satisfying an ancient claim, often perceived as a rule, about 2-week timeboxes, that in the real world rarely create valuable feedback-loops but small Milestones, used to assess a deviation from the yearly plan - sometimes called roadmap - of scope and budget twice a month?

Get something small, yet potentially valuable, in the hands of a customer or user as quickly as you're a able to do sustainably. Find out whether it suits their needs, improve or try something else.

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bbak,
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@RosannaSibora This paper-thing has no value for the users. A small group that's hardly representative for the real needs of users is given something to play with, instead of the real thing, a proxy. Then the proxy is thrown away, which is waste. Then a handover from those good at building proxies to those good at building the real thing happens.

Gained knowledge and hence risk reduction is uncertain, if not questionable. But a lot of time and capacity is used.

I'd not go for that Trade-off.

GuidoKuehn, to random German
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Weil er keine Antworten auf die realen Herausforderungen von Klima bis Transformation hat, zumindest keine, die ihm gefallen, flüchtet Merz gerne in die populistische Abarbeitung an Nichtproblemen wie Gendersternchen. Merz sagt, die Wahl der T-Shirt-Marke sei ein „unpatriotischer“ Akt. Damit knüpft er an das von der AfD wieder etablierte Narrativ des Völkischen an.
Patriotismus war historisch schon immer die Antwort derer, die Veränderungen nicht ertragen und notfalls in Blut ertränken wollen.

bbak,
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@GuidoKuehn Hm, wenn ich das richtig mitbekommen habe, dann sprach aber auch Habeck von 'Standortpatriotismus'. Ich halte beide Aussagen für unglücklich.

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/habeck-vermisst-standortpatriotismus-neuer-ausruster-nike-soll-dfb-mehr-als-doppelt-so-viel-geld-wie-adidas-zahlen-11404928.html

bbak, to random
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Recently I was involved in discussions around what people in staff units like a LACE, Transformation Office and similar should do to help the organisation.

And the only thing I could come up with was:

Get out and solve real world problems.

Is that naïve, simplistic...?

bbak,
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@airwhale I deliberately didn't want any reference to some blueprint.

Following shared principles or mental models is likely to be be a good idea, though. But only if you use them to solve real world problems and through doing this evolve, refine and enrich them.

And hence my conclusion that solving real world problems should be the major, if not only, constraint such teams need.

And if they don't do so, I've seen them quickly devolve into some governance body, detached from the real world.

bbak,
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@airwhale Well, of course, what's considered a 'real world problem' in this context may need some more detail. I tend to see risk reduction etc. as such.

The point is then more on the 'how?' side of things: Go out an DO it. Don't organize trainings around it. Or accumulate knowledge. Or similar.

antlerboy, to random
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Is there any way to stop my HoTMaiL account (since '96) -which I pay for- from marking genuine emails as spam?! Safelisting, marking as not spam (multiple times)-nothing works... newsletters, bank statements, booking dot com, mailing lists - all in Junk whatever I do!

bbak,
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@antlerboy Hm, most of the time the problem is the origin server. Like not having implemented DMARC, DKIM and/or SPF.

It shouldn't happen for booking;com though.

bbak,
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@antlerboy Given the assumption that the same technology underpins outlook.com, and my experience being close to the opposite of yours, I'm a bit, hm, puzzled.

bbak, to random
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The problem with goal-setting frameworks is that they necessarily assume that a problem can be identified and understood well-enough (in reasonable time) so that a goal can be crafted.

bbak,
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@gdinwiddie Ah, indeed. Looks like that was my assumption. 🤦And it's also quite often not true.

bbak,
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@gdinwiddie I know. And that's what makes me reject or at last run away from goal setting (frameworks).

My intent was just to reveal the the underlying assumption, since many oversee such. Whether one believes the assumption to be largely true or false depends way too many contextual factors and it doesn't make sense to debate about them. At least not here.

bbak, to random
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Close to four years gone. And counting.

Yes, Agile has to evolve, adapt, whatever... Scrum even more.

But this post was BS back then when it was written. And that didn't change.

https://siliconangle.com/2020/02/03/agile-software-development-dead-deal/

jasongorman, to random
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The purpose of junior developers is to grow into senior developers. Replacing them with "A.I." is like replacing all your unripened tomatoes with pasta sauce. There'll be a shortage of ripe tomatoes - and pasta sauce - come next season.

bbak,
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@jasongorman Given that what is called A.I. is very much like "advanced statistics" and therefore a (maybe) smart aggregate of existing code found in the training data, the quality of the output still very much depends on the quality of the input. Hence there's a feedback loop or recursion. Whether this is a virtuous or vicious one, is - in theory - to be seen. Currently, I'd bet on the latter.

gdinwiddie, to InitialD
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Help me out.

I'm interested in the preferences for online video.

  • How much short online video do you watch?
  • To what extent do you watch short online videos for information vs. entertainment?

bbak,
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@gdinwiddie None. I dislike being forced into a strictly linear consumption at a speed set by others.

bbak, to random
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I'm not 100% sure because I never tried but allow me a bold claim:

If you start writing a new Software and assume you'll need a table-like datastructure for the board, you're already doomed to become the next Trello Clone.

bbak,
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@AAMfP Then you can potentially support swimlanes with different flows (for different types of work); forking flows and other split-merge patterns; parking-lots; and much more than can be done with a physical board. Congrats. 😉

chmod644, to Marriage
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Random toughts of the week:

  • I hate is the one of the most counterintiutive GUIs I've seen so far.

  • I want to from some of the e.g. a meeting that lasts all day, wtf...

  • My new shiny green specifically bought for is trying to say something

  • Thank God we still have public health system in Spain I wonder how long our politians will allow it to continue surviving

  • Did I say I hate concur?

bbak,
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@nf3xn @chmod644 Why do you think that the length of a meeting is a indicator to tell whether it's agile or not?

What if I have a whiteboard session with some teammates starting in the morning, we get into the flow and suddenly it's evening (happened to me multiple times)?

bbak,
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@nf3xn @chmod644 Bikeshedding? Quite bold assumption, that tells something about the experiences you've made until now.

Anyway, keep it your way. I continue with mine.

There's no value to find in this interaction. Bye.

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    bbak,
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    @osma But actually no evidence for some rather bold claims regarding German executive and legislative branches.

    JulianOliver, to infosec
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    Fascinating and sophisticated MiTM ('man in the middle') at Hetzner (DE) and Linode, targeting Russia's largest XMPP/Jabber (civilian) chat service. The authors of the article make a reasonably compelling case that "this is lawful interception Hetzner and Linode were forced to setup."

    https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/

    Excellent mitigation walkthrough here:

    https://www.devever.net/~hl/xmpp-incident

    Sure gets me thinking.

    bbak,
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    @JulianOliver Honestly, they 'tend to assume...'

    There's actually zero evidence to support the claim that German executive and legislative branches (one would need both) were involved.

    Hence I tend to see this claim as a conspiracy theory (or worse).

    bbak, (edited ) to random
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    Most of the hype around may be driven by a lack of knowledge how MbO was intended: as a negotiation.

    Problem: given a power-imbalance between the parties, it's rarely a negotiation. OKR will fail for the same reasons as MbO.

    bbak,
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    @osma Well, I'd even say that any kind of 'goal-setting' is driven by that aversion. While a 'direction' allows to embrace uncertainty, a goal, vision, aim... - which essentially is a prescribed, presumably beneficial future status - narrows or limits options, for the benefit of alignment.
    A 'direction' also provides alignment, is way less limiting options, yet requires more flow of information to make decisions along the path taken.

    It's a trade-off.

    bbak,
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    @osma Absolutely.

    But there's a additional effect of goal setting: inattentional blindness.

    Being focused on a goal may make you blind for opportunities along the way. You simply don't expect to see them, hence you don't.

    gdinwiddie, to random
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    Does "being comfortable with complexity" sound like something desirable to you?

    bbak,
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    @gdinwiddie Hm, ranges from setting up a dev environment, via configuring any device (Phone, Computer, TV, even dishwashers or microwave ovens) to going to authorities for reregister or finding (and signing) a life insurance.

    Quite complicated, experts can do it, with some experience even predictably.

    These really should be simple and I wouldn't call any of them complex.

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