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How much documentation is enough? In ancient times, a banner had to be simple enough to be read by a man astride a galloping horse, and so let that principle guide you. #agile

Ironic how Jeff Bezos, who brought us the enabling constraint of the "2 Pizza Team", fails to recognize the value of timeboxing by wanting to live forever.

"Your proposal is whack": https://t.co/aoWYxC0KQR Tester inadvertently uses dummy data in prod, and the decisions are legally binding

Afghanistan is every big lumbering outsourced project I've ever known. The real threat comes not from external forces, but from assumptions made and the organization's own gravity. Every time, management hubris is followed by catastrophe on a camel.

Labour mocked for asking staff to use ‘agile ceremonies’ in plan to axe 90 jobs: https://t.co/hV8QZOEFqn My 2c: Getting it right, and holding Scrum *events*, may improve credibility. Quote: “I mean, what the **** are ‘agile ceremonies’? Has a certain The Wicker Man energy to it?”

It’s time for IT departments to speak a new language: https://t.co/0BuL1Y3Bqk My 2c: #Agile transformation is largely cultural...and most of that hinges on inculcating the soft skills that organizations will need for deep and pervasive enterprise change.

Leveraging the #Agile Manifesto for More #Sustainability: https://t.co/W1vunOrpL4 My 2c: Think of sustainability as a quality criterion -- something required for product increments to be "Done" & fully usable. Empower developers so they're in a position to commit to & achieve it.

Agile Transformation: Are You Ready?

The Secret to Overcoming the Trials and Tribulations of Agile Transformation: https://t.co/EIio0xPoaj A look at why you may need an agile transformation team.

Can Supply Chains Be Both Agile & Lean? https://t.co/xaxysjvkX3 My 2c: They often have to be. Agility addresses uncertainty: Sprint Goals are achievable mitigation targets. Yet risk exposure is itself unpredictable. A lean-agile team manages risk to both feature delivery and flow

Is Agile the answer for health & life sciences? https://t.co/Ni5gBJhpEh Quote: "Traditionally viewed as too unstructured for highly-regulated environments, #Agile can keep organisations compliant while driving innovation"

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.

#DevOps still 'rarely done well at scale' concludes report after a decade of research: https://t.co/5EeEuOCMZG My 2c: Organizations that go straight to DevOps, hoping for a technical fix that avoids the cultural change agility demands, are bound to be disappointed by the outcomes

It's tempting for those who aren't Developers to attend a Daily Scrum, because jumping in on a 15 minute window is easy. The rest of the time you get to stay in your bubble & it means less change to your day job. Shoehorn collaboration into 15 minutes & you have an undaily Scrum.

A good Daily Scrum is 15 minutes out of a busy day of collaborating with the SM, PO and others, for those developing the Increment to stand aside from the buzz and say: "Where are we now in our progress to the Sprint Goal? Where would we hope to be this time tomorrow?" #agile

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.

Five Ways Agencies Can Become More Agile: https://t.co/cmGaVK0xMx By Scott Ambler

What The Stoics Can Teach Us About Software Development:

Pressures of the pandemic motivate a big shift to #agile programming practices: https://t.co/ZPBg2dXRBF Survey finds 84% of dev teams are using agile methods. My 2c: It's not really important how many teams "are using Kanban boards". What matters is how many observe WIP limits.