Agile Tom
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I'm Agile Tom, the Scrum Shack's resident cat. Hook up with me to get the latest expert advice on agility & the management of technical debt. https://t.co/ClcoJP4PF9
Scrum Shack, wherever warmest
Joined April 2013
Most technical debt is technical embezzlement. There's never any real intention to pay it back. Step one, really, is just to come clean.
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Agile Transformation: Are You Ready?
globallogic.com
GlobalLogic's Principal Agile Coach shares both strategic and practical advice on how to ensure your Agile transformation is successful.
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Why You Should Refactor — Not Rewrite — Your Code: https://t.co/k078a5KQHU Meow: Continuous refactoring is cheap and helps you stay on top of #TechDebt. Having to undertake an expensive rewrite is just one consequence of failing to do so.
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What is Moonshot thinking & how can I use it in my startup? https://t.co/uUh385qctN Meow: Think of a moonshot as a complex challenge with many uncertainties that must be brought under empirical process control. In Scrum, each Sprint is a successively more ambitious rocket launch.
eu-startups.com
When asked about the ingredients of success for a startup, people often stress that the team matters more than the actual idea. Behind this assumption
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When I was a kitten I dreamed of following in the pawsteps of Félicette. She wouldn't be the only cat in space. Now in the age of #SpaceTourism the idea no longer appeals, even though I have the money for it. Space has become the playground of kleptonauts.
en.wikipedia.org
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Worse than a bad smell: wrong metrics & toxic governance https://t.co/wHZlbN1B0g Quote 'Mr Justice Johnson said the offences had been motivated by a desire to "focus the company's attention on those metrics that increase its income, disregarding its wider compliance obligations"'
bbc.com
The company admits 6,971 illegal spills at 17 treatment works in Kent, Hampshire and West Sussex.
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Seven Ways to Encourage a More #Agile Work Culture (and Why You Should):
rollingstone.com
The only certainty about the future of work is change.
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Hardening sprint: Scrum anti-pattern or necessity? https://t.co/t0pZhVnY0S Meow: #TechDebt is always a burden & that's really what you're getting into, or covering up, with hardening Sprints. In truth it means your other Sprints are not providing Done work and are therefore fake!
techtarget.com
Hardening sprints for Scrum teams can be costly and unnecessary -- even an anti-pattern. Learn why and how Agile organizations can avoid such iterations.
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How to Deal with Technical Debt – a Guide for IT Leaders: https://t.co/93mnd9nanP Meow... Technical debt: Know what you owe, have a plan to pay it back Technical embezzlement: Fake delivery on time/scope/budget by cutting quality. Execs get bonuses, leave others to pick up pieces
brainhub.eu
The concept of technical debt suggests the conscious trade-off between fast delivery and long-term effects. See how to deal with technical debt effectively.
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Focusing On The Most Meaningful Metrics: https://t.co/RL8f5MOUnP Key Quote: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” - Charles Goodhart
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Do Executives Help or Hinder Agile Teams? https://t.co/lFdcCLq91A Meow: An excellent post on executive psychopathology, and how #agile change is stifled where "hubris and narcissism dominate".
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XOps: Real or Hype? https://t.co/fQ2a9wUU41 Quote: "I don't really worry about this BizOps, DevOps, DevSecOps, BizDevSecOps, Marketing Ops. It all basically does the same thing & that is a movement toward a more cross-functional way of working" Meow: In truth, X=DefinitionOfDone.
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"How to Evolve and Scale Your DevOps Programs and Optimize Success": https://t.co/qT7M4r5OjO Meow: #DevOps is agile practice, and therefore more about cultural change than about tooling and technology. You have to build a culture for #agile outcomes before you can hope to scale.
infoq.com
Processes and workflows become more complex and difficult as DevOps efforts scale. In this article, we’ll take a look at these challenges, and sketch an approach to overcoming them.
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"How to Evolve and Scale Your DevOps Programs and Optimize Success": https://t.co/qT7M4r5OjO Meow: #DevOps is agile practice, and therefore more about cultural change than about tooling and technology. You have to build a culture for #agile outcomes before you can hope to scale.
infoq.com
Processes and workflows become more complex and difficult as DevOps efforts scale. In this article, we’ll take a look at these challenges, and sketch an approach to overcoming them.
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Technical debt can be understood as the long-term consequences of poor technical choices, and often involves the trading of quality for speed:
spacenews.com
NASA will not repair a faulty electronics unit on the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 1 mission after concluding there was sufficient redundancy.
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WEF releases "#Agile Regulation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Toolkit for Regulators" https://t.co/6dvJiq9WDH Quote: "In one UK study, just 29% of the businesses surveyed thought that regulation enabled innovative products & services to be brought to market efficiently"
weforum.org
A more agile, flexible approach to regulation is needed in order to seize the potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to change lives for the better. This guide provides regulators with a range...
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Why Predictability is More Important than Speed in Agile Marketing https://t.co/QSZQ7C4QGq Meow: Predictability is an agile outcome. Agilists get the difference between trying & failing to be predictive via scheduling, and gaining true predictability via empirical process control
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The thing is, now, every time I see a toddler throw a tantrum I see an attempted coup.
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#2020Election fashion update. The best way to avoid the tie is to throw out the suits.
salon.com
"Each has been rejected so far, and I'd rather not give them oxygen," election law expert Jon Sherman tells Salon
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