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Jul 18 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
The cycle of no-improvement:
Bad estimates? get better at estimates!
Unclear requirements? get better at requirements!

Most things we deal with as problems are not actual problems.
They’re indications of problems. @WoodyZuill #Agile2022 ImageImageImage
If you can’t solve the problem, maybe you can overwhelm it.
Focus on what’s good. Make that bigger! ImageImageImage
the pictures are worth it alone. Andrea Zuill’s pictures are the best ImageImage
“Jenny loves playing with kitties. Kitties never seem to like playing with her” ImageImage

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Jul 19
We have known how to build software for a while now, and the question is,
Why don’t we?
@bethcodes #Agile2022
I look at SAFe and I see us reinventing Taylorism from first principles.
@bethcodes
#Agile2022
The alternative typically presented is structurelessness.
Let every team do exactly what it wants, whoever keeps doing it longer without getting fired wins the argument.

People don’t feel safe without structure.
@bethcodes
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Jul 10
A ten-principle checklist for socio-technical design

by Albert Cherns, quoted by Jackson in Critical Systems Thinking

paraphrased by me, with commentary for software teams 🧵
Compatibility
the process of design is compatible with its objectives. Want democracy? use participative design.

The means match the ends.
You don't get autonomous teams by specifying Scrum.
Minimal Critical Specification
of the who and how of carrying out the work, only the essentials are decided up-front.

Figure out the basics, and plan on figuring out more later, within the team. Keep detailed decisions near the work.
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May 24
How to sell your ideas, by Tom Bellinson
hint: expertise and explanations won’t do it.
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Step 1: focus on their win. Find out what it is by asking questions.
if you can’t deliver on THEIR goals, move on. #AgileAndBeyond ImageImageImage
your goal is to enter the other person’s world, so you can communicate with them.
figure out their communication style and use that. @tomsbigideas Image
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Apr 6
How do you take a legacy system toward fast flow of change? @suksr takes us through an evolution
using wholistic approaches including DDD, Wardley Mapping, and Team Topologies #QConLondon
The Wardley Map is only part of Wardley Mapping. There’s a whole strategy cycle

from @suksr #QConLondon
Team Topologies has categories of teams, and even more important: consciously plan the interactions between teams

from @suksr #QConLondon
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Apr 6
Slow means risky. 130000 dev hours in a single weekend deploy

@audunstrand and @trulsjor #QConLondon
It’s not about how fast the team can program.
It’s about how fast the team can find solutions to each problem, uncover organizational secrets for how the domain works and should work.
There’s a conflict between cross-functional teams and the organizational hierarchy.

And alignment is a Challenge in autonomous teams
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Apr 6
Flow in a software team is a socio-technical property.
Dropping flow comes with downtime, bugs, and other general misery.

from @ntcoding #QConLondon
Enforcing the same JIRA workflow doesn’t make developers interchangable.
“It takes me weeks to develop rapport with teammates, months to learn domain and code, a few hours to learn a JIRA workflow.” @ntcoding #QConLondon
Smooth devex, sustainable flow:
“This is working in the government, six years ago.
No one else has an excuse anymore.”
@ntcoding #QConLondon
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