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Al Shalloway. Biz Agility &Value Stream Management Profile picture
@alshalloway
Sep 27, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I am really amazed how so many people just want to be right about masks. It's not a big deal to wear them. I don't care if it's right or not. It seems a more rational decision when risks are concerned. Not to mention those who've studied these diseases think it's best. ...
if you think you're smarter than someone who's studied something for decades then what are you not the smartest person about? This is a statement that you know more than anyone else about everything. It's incredibly arrogant and like a bull in a china shop. ...
there's no rationality here. It means you think what you think is the truth. Oh yeah, you can find evidence that meets your beliefs, but cognitive bias has it meet that. That's still you saying you can interpret data better than an expert. ...
i believe people are experts only certain areas. I am not an expert in everything. And the more i learn about my own expertise the more I realize how much even in this situation there are others who know more than me. ...
Only barbers, bartenders, stylists and taxi drivers have a right to have an opinion on everything. To them it's a job description. To the rest of us, it's insane.

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Al Shalloway. Biz Agility &Value Stream Management Profile picture
Jan 23, 2023
Have just written a post
What’s missing in the Agile space
linkedin.com/posts/alshallo…

Here are some of my favorite quotes from it.

Picture is some of what's missing: 1/ ImageImageImage
First, we need to take a scientific point of view. One of the implicit assumptions about this is that we can understand what’s going on. While many hide under the covers of our world is too complex to understand I agree with Eli Goldratt’s observation (picture) 2/ Image
A scientific view means we recognize that we are always wrong, but that we’re always trying to be less wrong.

3/ Image
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Al Shalloway. Biz Agility &Value Stream Management Profile picture
Jan 23, 2023
Agile is not just about challenging the assumptions of our plan and of what we need to build.

Even SAFe suggests this.

It's about challenging how we work.

But few Agile approaches actually do this.

Most have their own treasured values.

We need to take a scientific approach.
It is much harder to build a system that helps you think right from the start instead of following it, but that is easy to start with and well-defined

Simple to learn, simple to start.
Really difficult to build.

Simple to the user typically requires difficult to the creator
if you are going to follow something, make sure you get it from someone who knows more than one approach.

someone who can tailor what you need.

Otherwise you are likely just following what one person has to sell.
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Al Shalloway. Biz Agility &Value Stream Management Profile picture
Jan 21, 2023
you don't want your framework to be purposefully incomplete. You want it to be intelligently incomplete. That is, you want it to provide you the information you need, when you need it, without overloading you.
you don't want your framework to be simple to understand but difficult to master. Although building product may be difficult to master, you want your approach to be simple to understand and relatively easy to master.
if proponents of an approach tell you it's like "playing a game" then make sure it's a game that works for you. And understand why the rules of the game are the say they are.
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Al Shalloway. Biz Agility &Value Stream Management Profile picture
Oct 30, 2022
Quotes from Dr. Eli Goldratt's The Choice, These on the left deal more with complexity. Those on the right,
especially those in bold italics are most pertinent to this talk.
My point in including these is to show the relationship
between espousing things as being complex and causing resistance.
These quotes present a different mindset from what I normally hear about complexity in the Agile space. I believe
they each make a true statement that provides us with useful insights and which are consistent with my decades
of experience attending to complexity.
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Al Shalloway. Biz Agility &Value Stream Management Profile picture
Oct 26, 2022
Will be writing a linkedin post on the J-Curve. here are some thoughts I'll be using.

Virginia Satir's J-Curve is held to be unavoidable.
I love Satir. But we're not a family.
But if we act like we're a CAS without understanding cause & effect we'll get it most likely.
1/
If we had a theory (like Flow, Lean, the Theory of Constraints) we could move the "transforming idea" up earlier & not have such a dip.

This is a belief that separates those in the Agile community. Read the text in the picture.

Scrum is on one side, Flow, Lean, ToC the other /2
we, of course, can't always be clear. but we can use resistance that comes up to see what to do.

Say we want to start using Minimum Business Increments. If teams can build in small increments this idea won't cause any problems.

But if they can't. It will. 3/
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Al Shalloway. Biz Agility &Value Stream Management Profile picture
Oct 25, 2022
The real cost of multi-tasking.
Many people point to multi-tasking as a major problem. It is a significant one, but not the key one. Consider the cause of multi-tasing – people working in multiple value streams. People are being interrupted and are interrupting others.
Correlated with multi-tasking is work waiting in queues. While multi-tasking may cause a 10-20% drop in efficiency, work waiting in queues can create unplanned work in the form of bugs, working on the wrong things, rework, etc., that is much larger.
Having people work in multiple value streams creates significant delays in the workflow.

And this causes waste.

This extra work is much more wasteful than the inefficiencies multi-tasking causes.
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