X : Isn't pioneer / settler / town planner a copy of @KentBeck explore / expand / extract?
Me : Why does it matter?
X : They're the same!
Me : Who cares? Are they useful to you?
X : It matters who was first?
Me : Why is that important? What's wrong with having similar models?
It's like Wardley mapping and @snowded Cynefin. They have similarities, they have overlaps. This is a good thing, they are complimentary, they support each other. They have common backgrounds.
In the same way, I find complimentary approaches between pioneer / settler / town planner with explore / expand and exploit. It's a good thing. It's a positive thing. I like @KentBeck model. I also have bias, I love XP.
X : What about IP?
Me : Sivowitch's law.
X : ?
Me : Whenever you discover who was first, the more you look you'll find someone who was more first. So, stop trying ... the world is better if we gift what we know and allow others to expand on it. That's the heart of open source.
X : I thought you said that open source is a weapon?
Me : Oh, it can be in the hands of a skilled practioner. You can change industries with it. But it is also more than that. To many, it is a belief, an ethics of care, an ethics of sharing, a desire if not duty to help others.
you can think of it as tzedakah, or in my own philosophy it is best described by a thought that it is the lack of self interest that allows a person to fufil themself by helping others. That's the real heart, the desire to try and help others.
X : OpenStack?
Me : Oh, now you're goading me. Don't get me started ... the parties, the self belief, the righteousness ... let us just let sleeping dogs lie.
X : So, what's better?
Me : Eh?
X : Cynefin or Maps?
Me : Lol. Do both. They different but complementary. I would always recommend spending time with @snowded and learning his ways of thinking. Ditto @kentbeck, I owe him so much.
That's the beauty of this community ... as much as I try to give freely, it always gives me more back ... from @snowded to @KentBeck, from @CatSwetel to @b6n, from @ajbouh to @jacquitaylorfb, from @coderinheels to @allisonrandal and so many more ... I live a blessed life.

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10 Mar
An agile organisation is one that uses appropriate methods according to the context whether project management (i.e. XP to Lean to Six Sigma) or purchasing or team structures.

An organisation which uses "Agile" everywhere will never be an agile organisation. Image
X : What's your advice?
Me : On agile organisations?
X : Yes.
Me : Depends upon how much I like you.
X : Explain.
Me : If I like you then I'd say ... understand your context, use appropriate methods, go serverless, go finops and think principles.
X : If you don't?
Me : Write stories, go agile, go containers, go devops and re-organise to a spotify model.
X : Bimodal?
Me : I'm not cruel.
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10 Mar
A staggering and unimaginable cost with no clear evidence of effectiveness ... afaik, that's common language in the private sector for projects run by ex McKinsey consultants.

Test and trace should have been built by the NHS working with local councils - committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/…
Can we stop using the "NHS" moniker? This really should be Gov T&T because the NHS had it's own existing expertise in contact tracing which wasn't used and the NHS moniker is at best misleading. If you want to talk NHS then try NHS vaccine programme which is run by the NHS ...
... if you want some background try the BMJ - blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/12/11…
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10 Mar
X : Your four stages of evolution on your map ...
Me : ... genesis, custom built, product to commodity?
X : Yes. How do you know it's right?
Me : It's a model, it's wrong. It just happens to be the best model I have until someone finds a better model.
X : How long did it take you to come up with that axis?
Me : Roughly ... years of noodling (2003-05), several fortuitous accidents (2005), 6 months of 70hr+ weeks collecting data (2006-07), several nights of "what's the point, I'm broke" and years to grow confidence (2007 - now).
X : ... and it's wrong?
Me : Oh absolutely, it's a model. Maps are also imperfect by their nature in order to be useful. But then that's the point, I find it useful until a better model comes along.
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7 Mar
X : Are you a communist?
Me : No. I'm not a capitalist either.
X : Then what are you?
Me : I'm an "undestand your landscape and use appropriate methods"-ist.
X : That doesn't make sense.
Me : Did to Deng Xiaoping. It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
X : He was a communist.
Me : He was a pragmatist. He understood how to use tools to a nation's favour (including the market) and how to avoid dogma.
X : But you're more of a communist than a capitalist.
Me : Nope. They're both tools to me. I don't like either as a one size fits all dogma. The market and central planning have contexts in which they are useful and others in which they are not.
X : But you favour democracy?
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7 Mar
I, for one, will miss the reasoned debates and answers (and obvious non answers) to questions as it is replaced with the normal jeering and caterwauling of the house ->
The quality of the debate is not enhanced by the baying and guffaws of others, it depends upon the quality of the leaders and the questions they ask - parliamentlive.tv/event/index/01… ...
... today's debates are more reasoned and more thoughtful without the outcries of the rabble - parliamentlive.tv/event/index/e9… ... I cannot help but think that the real desire to get everyone back into the commons is to hide Boris' bumbling.
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X : Meghan and Harry?
Me : An everyday story of boy meets girl, girl meets boy and hordes of rabid racist daily mail, sun and telegraph readers pretend the problem is something other than them being rabid racists.
X : But becoming a member of ...
Me : ... if you're going to say the family, the duty, the society, the right way of behaving, the ... oh, it's just endless excuses, one after another, looking for some sort of problem with Meghan rather than looking in the mirror at yourself.
We don't call it the daily fail for nothing. You don't get much nastier than this - ... awful stuff.
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