Kevin
@AgileDevx
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Leading a team along the Agile path. Continuously learning the craft of software development
Joined April 2021
▶️ Have fun!! If you are not enjoying what you do, lets chat, and identify how we can change that.
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▶️ Communication: - Communicate to stakeholders - Communicate progress, delays, blockers - Ask questions ▶️ Engagement: Get involved in discussion, bring ideas, encourage the team ▶️ Career Growth - what do you want to achieve this year?
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▶️ Bugs/Defects: reduce/rectify ▶️ Support: Prompt response; SLAs ▶️ Mobbing/PP ▶️ Grow Systems knowledge ▶️ Develop expertise in ONE area e.g. .NET Core ▶️ Solve business problems: - innovate; simplify; automate ▶️ Presentation of project work, new tech, or topic
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Below is a first draft proposal for my team. Would love to get your thoughts! ▶️ Getting work done: -Break into manageable tasks -Take responsibility for seeing through to end -How can I help others get sprint work done? -Be proactive: If something needs to be done, do it
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I've seen blogs on this with regards to tracking metrics such as PRs or commits (which I find nonsense!). I don't want to have the team setting a goal of 100 PRs or whatever. Seems pointless.
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Hi Thiago, Laura, Gergely, Charity, Lara! 👋 I would love to get your thoughts on goal-setting for dev teams. 🎯 What works? What does not work? And how do you know if you have achieved a goal? @rhein_wein @thiagoghisi @GergelyOrosz @mipsytipsy @lara_hogan
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Why are you not working with Azure Functions? ⚡ I had the opportunity to work with Azure Functions on several projects, and I have consistently been impressed with their capabilities. For those who may not be familiar, don't worry. Let me give you a brief intro. 🧵
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I work for a business that has been doing a lot of talking about "being agile". 🚨 They have then got an architect in who has proposed the below methodology 😳 Thoughts? @allenholub @tottinge @d_stepanovic @ryanripley @alexbunardzic @davefarley77 @GeePawHill
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@AgileDevx @AgentAJay @allenholub @tottinge @d_stepanovic Yes! This might be the one you were referring to: https://t.co/W5uYb5P9C1
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TDD does not take extra time. Writing tests _first_ is not overhead because they force you to think through the problem and partition it properly. You’d have to do that thinking anyway. Testing after the fact IS overhead because you did all that thinking already.
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We don't do code reviews (aka we don't do pull requests). Reviews are too late. You need to collaborate when you code, not check afterwards - changes made due to review outcomes are expensive. To quote Deming: “Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality.”
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An Agile way to build: 1) Build the smallest simplest thing that does the work necessary to provide a small bit of value. That rarely requires a database. 2) Incrementally improve that thing. 3) If some improvement would have been easier had there been a database, refactor it in.
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What if we recovered ancient ways of teaching and learning? 5 Lindy ideas in education ⏳👇🏽
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I understand learning is important, but i feel if time for it is not scheduled, then it doesn't happen. But then if team members do not use that time, it is also wasted. Any advice is much appreciated. 3/3
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Then again, in saying that, I did block a half day out every week for the team to work on or learn whatever they like. I got one comment back saying they just preferred to do the sprint work during this time. 2/3
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Hi Allen, regarding learning time, I'm not sure how best to do this. A learning hr at start of day would have to be well planned, and can take time to get into the learning "flow", with the probability that we go well past the hr. 1/3
Instead, why not incorporate React into your normal learning process (you do have one of those, don’t you?). That is, I’d start every day with a learning hour where the team learns about new things. That’s learning for the sake of learning.
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@jezhumble @swardley I introduced a client today to unit testing, test driven development and shockingly, dependency injection. We started off with discussions around testing (manual) and I brought up the testing ice cream cone.
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Yep. It doesn't solve any problem. The team want to use it because they see it as an in demand skill. I like to let the team go and decide for themselves, but they need to be aware of the risks
@tdpauw @tottinge @davefarley77 @AgileDevx @GergelyOrosz Adding to the above, I’m all in favor of learning, but am reluctant to advise using React in production just because it’s cool. Exactly what problem does React solve for you? If you can’t answer that to everybody’s satisfaction, don’t use it.
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Also while the team want to learn shiny new tech, they dislike being advised to instead turn their attentions and put their time into learning #TDD Thoughts? @davefarley77 @allenholub @tdpauw @tottinge @GergelyOrosz 3/3
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