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"SAFe is a popular framework in agile because it's very prescriptive, hiearchical and just fits in with the organisation. SAFe is not a bottleneck for agile but a lot of people stumble because not enough teams use scrum" ... hmmm #GOTOcph
30 minutes into this SAFe presentation. Lots of discussion on the importance of documentation, voting on features the teams would like to build along with roles and hierachy. At no single point has user or user needs be mentioned. Hmmm. #GOTOcph
X : What made your organisation adopt SAFe ... pressure from engineers, demands from users?

Speaker : It was a top down decision. The CIO went "we're going agile" and so we moved. The CEO now says we're all going agile.
Currently, typing a letter to my local nuclear power plant along the lines of ... "Under no fracking circumstances should you go agile just because some CEO read an article in HBR or got ambushed by strategy consultants flogging certifications"
X : What made your organisation adopt SAFe ... pressure from engineers, demands from users?
Speaker : It was a top down decision. The CIO went "we're going agile" and so we moved.
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X : How do you do research?
Me : University or commercial?
X : Is there a difference?
Me : In academia, people tend to do the research before they submit the proposal to do the research in order to fit in with some sort of scheduled research delivery process / gantt chart ...
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X : What about commercial research?
Me : Well, a lot isn't actual research in the sense of creating a new field. It's more applied research. So there tends to be less uncertainty. Other areas, well you just have to embrace the chaos. Of course, people still want Gantt charts.
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Lunch and a quick scan of NHS long term plan - longtermplan.nhs.uk/publication/nh… ... page 6 (summary) and rapid expansion of "personal health budget" - england.nhs.uk/personal-healt… - aka full scale privatisation of NHS under the cover of giving patients choice. Bye Bye NHS, you'll be missed.
... not that we really have an NHS, it is more of a franchise. Anyway, personal choice is the way to kill it off and embrace a market led insurance model. First health, police next - "Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him" - newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…
.. but let us not sweat the little stuff like health, society, cohesion but focus on big things like staying in the EU. As we all know, the EC will save us. I can hear Juncker on the phone to May saying "you can't continue privatising the NHS, the EC is going to stop you". Lol.
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X : Predictions for 2019?
Me : Not my thing.
X : Go on.
Me : What are you after?
X : Acquisitions.
Me : Hmmm, a bucketload of tech acquisitions around Kubernetes. Expect big juicy deals.
X : It's the future?
Me : No. Mostly cash rich past giants with no future being clueless.
X : No market for Kubernetes?
Me : Some very profitable niches. Savvy tech buyer will wait until hype dries up before swooping in for tasty acquisitions around 2021-2022. This year will mainly be the clueless with big chequebooks. Hoping some friends will make it big this year.
X : The market doesn't operate to make your friends rich.
Me : Are you sure? It has been doing a good job of it - Cloud, Big Data, Containers ... it's always the same.
X : So, where is the future?
Me : I thought you were interested in acquisitions? They are not the same.
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One thing which has been really bothering me lately is running up against folks who insist on defining "value" in the narrow terms of that which can be directly observed by users' eyeballs. Isn't #agile supposed to know better? A thread.
I'm legitimately confused about why anyone claiming to be #agile would be so myopic as to say that investing in the underlying technology platform, paying down technical debt, or training a team in a helpful technology is somehow less than "feature dev".
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Co-signing @whstancil’s points...but this school also allegedly abused these kids, roughing them and making them kneel for hours “to teach them submission.”
it’s another example of how often the models at schools like this and “zero-tolerance” charters for Black kids really just look like formalized contempt.

People will countenance that abuse — actually praise it and call it *necessary* — if its targets are poor Black kids.
Also, those “Black kids got into elite colleges!” viral videos and news stories have always been icky for this and other reasons

They are far too credulous, whether we’re talking about this school or Urban Prep in Chicago or wherever else
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The best advice I got for making friends was “Spend less time with people you don’t want to be friends with.”

This week I had a lot of meetings and was fine. Energized, even. Then I had a long business meeting with someone I didn’t click with. He was nice but I feel SO drained.
I think we underestimate the impact others have on us— the impact spending time with people who are just not good for us. They’re not bad people, they’re very nice, we just aren’t meant to click with them.
I am an extrovert, too. I think a lot of people who say others drain energy, extroverts and introverts alike, should be sure they’re not just hanging around the wrong people.

I also think great friendship is as rare as great love, and we must make room in life to search for it.
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How about today we do a thread about Facebook Memes, the Sudarium and Saint Veronica, what medieval Europeans thought Jesus looked like, why 19th century Europeans decided to that earlier depiction of Jesus as dark skinned were a problem, and how they decided to explain it away?
Preemptively, I'll tell you I used to have a pinned tweet: “I am not a biblical race-prover”. This discussion pertains to depictions of biblical figures in visual culture & literature, how they vary with region and the passage of time, & sociopolitical reasons for those changes.
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Alright, it's been a while, but let's do #IanLivetweetsHisResearch. Today we're reading Bob Altemeyer's The Authoritarians, which you can nab for free here: theauthoritarians.org/Downloads/TheA…
It's a whole-ass book so I'm just gonna share the things that jump out at me from what I've read so far and what I read this morning. Might come back to it in future livetweets.
Also shoutout to whichever follower recommended the book to me, You are lost in a sea of old notifications but it was a good recommendation!
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