@firepoet @pragmaticmarg That is correct. Very minor updates. Would you be interested in a second release? There’s much I’d do differently…

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Quite often, it isn't that leaders in a company don't want things to improve - It's just that their definition of improvement differs vastly from yours.

#leadership

@DocOnDev To get that argument out of the game, I tracked Throughput in Story Points and as count of work items for a while.

Correlation was high and so we stopped using Story Points and estimating.

Well, in the meantime the team moved away from sprinting also. But that's another story.

Among the causes of variable throughput on a team, inaccurate estimates is NOT one of the primary causes. Please stop blaming the team and start looking at the system.

https://t.co/LfOPXgm1RL

#agile #velocity #scrum #metrics

When someone tells you about a problem they're having, it's not necessarily a solicitation for advice on how to fix it. - @searls

#leadership

It is easier
to write an
incorrect program
than
understand a
correct one.

~ Unknown

#SoftwareDevelopment

The gap
between
"Here's what worked for us"
and
"Here's what you should do"
is often
perceived as
tiny
but is usually
absolutely
m a s s i v e.

"Responding to Change OVER Following a Plan"
Is not the same as
"Winging it OVER Having a Plan".

#agile

There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all. - Peter F. Drucker

If it took you nearly a year, all core functionality is robustly implemented, and you are showing it to pilot users for the first time, it is not an MVP.

#ExperimentationMindset #SoftwareDevelopment #agile

Does your leadership have an implementation mindset or experimentation mindset? Do they lead w/ hubris or humility?

#leadership #ExperimentationMindset

@marcgibbons Agreed. I often use that exact phrasing - “test coverage is a side-effect”

Test coverage is not a measure of quality, but having test coverage is an indicator of quality.

https://t.co/LfOPXgm1RL

#agile #metrics

Speaker: This worked for us, but might not work in your context.

Audience Member: You're wrong because this might not work in my context.

I often hear managers say they're worried about using individual performance metrics because people will "game" the metrics.

How come so few of them are worried about using individual performance metrics because local optima may impede a global optimum?

#leadership

“Strategic leaders must not get consumed by the operational and tactical side of their work. They have a duty to find time to shape the future.” -Stephanie S. Mead

#leadership

Technical Debt isn't solely a developer concern. It doesn't happen in isolation and it doesn't get fixed in isolation.

When one has a truly open mind, rather than holding no opinion, one holds multiple opinions at once.

#leadership #ExperimentationMindset

"Through experiments, innovative groups act rather than plan their way forward." - Collective Genius

#ExperimentationMindset