@allenholub Interesting point. Scrum with various definitions of Done might be completely different methodologies.
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CharliePoole ([email protected])
@CharliePoole
Developer, Coach, NUnit guy
Poulsbo, Washington, US Katılım Aralık 2008
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I'm not a fan of Scrum allowing the work to be called done if it's in the "ready for deployment status." If it's not deployed, its inventory (in the Lean sense)—money spent that's not creating revenue. It's waste, pure and simple.
Ibrahim Alsharif@IbrahimAshariif
@allenholub I think the work may be in ready for deployment status or already deployed to be included in the sprint review, but not only deployed.
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The amount of bureaucracy in a system is inversely proportional to the amount trust. Agile is all about minimizing the former and maximizing the latter.
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@allenholub Groups have to grow into agile teams. That requires trust, support and leadership. If members haven't been part of an agile team before they need to be taught. 2/2
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@allenholub Often, comments like this indicate that the individual takes "agile team" to mean some arbitrary group of people thrown together by management. Being thrown into the same boat with everyone else doesn't make you a sailor. 1/x
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I really want to hoist this comment to the top level. Agile is based on trust. Any org that assumes that people will be lazy and not interested in moving the business forward is not an agile one. Agile teams will not do things that nobody cares about.
Canenald@Canenald
@allenholub I really have to wonder about people who ask what if a team does something no one cares about. idk, what if you tell the team to do something no one cares about?
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@allenholub Yes! Also useful for the PO to remember that the title is metaphorical, at least most of the time. :-)
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A Product Owner owns the product, not the process used to create the product.
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@sebazzz91 As I said, legacy. :-) pluggable agents allow the gui to support older runtimes for the few without building in dependencies that inconvenience everyone. That's huge!
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New pluggable agent allows the TestCentric Gui to run .NET 8.0 tests.
TestCentric .NET 8.0 Pluggable Agent charliepoole.org/technical/net8… via @CharliePoole
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Eventually, all agents will be pluggable, with a standard set included with the GUI and varying from time to time as platforms become available - or obsolete.
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BTW, this isn't the first pluggable agent. A .NET Framework 2.0 agent has been released for a while and a .NET Core 2.1 agent is in my dev channel. Those, of course, are for folks who need to test under those legacy platforms.
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This is one of the few songs that I remember my mother singing. twitter.com/78_sampler/sta…
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@allenholub @WolfrostFM People sometimes talk about short- vs long-term outcomes in this context. IME the long term consequences of sacrificing quality show up in about a week or less.
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@WolfrostFM Yes, exactly, and when you don't do that, you never get real quality. Quality has to be built in from day one. It's not something you can add later.
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@allenholub @_cblaine_ @Grammarly I wasn't referring ChatGTP but... yes. :-) TBH I don't even find ChatGTP particularly interesting except possibly as an example of how little progress has been made in understanding what intelligence is. It's Eliza 2022.
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@CharliePoole @_cblaine_ @Grammarly Charlie, ChatGPT was trained on the internet. It effectively parrots the prevailing "wisdom" of the internet and presents it as truth. No thanks.
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A great example of an AI (In this case, @Grammarly) falling prey to Dunning-Kruger. It's at the far left of the curve—not really knowing stuff but thinking it does because it's mimicking the people around it. "Myriad" can be treated as a number (10,000). The "of" is optional.
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@_cblaine_ @allenholub @Grammarly Preferences can be crowd-sourced effectively. Actual Knowledge can't except in the most trivial cases, where almost everyone knows the correct answer.
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@allenholub @Grammarly if used in place of concrete value, should the preceding "a" be excluded as well?
"There are myriad..."?
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@allenholub In groups, many of us don't catch the signals, which tell others when it's OK to speak up. So we stumble into the dicussion at the wrong moment.
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Though breaking in on somebody as they speak is bad form, it's equally bad form to go on and on without giving anybody a chance to get a word in edgewise, and repeating the same thing over and over is just insulting your listener's intelligence. Way ruder than breaking in.
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@allenholub @RonJeffries @ryanripley Depends on who is taking on the role of identifying these global problems. Sadly, I've only seen it done by setting limits on what the team is allowed to decide. Perhaps you have seen it done better... if so I'd like to hear more.
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@CharliePoole @RonJeffries @ryanripley No. Identify problems so the teams can solve them. Nothing wrong with providing a global perspective that the teams can't have. Self organization doesn’t mean that you’re an island that doesn’t talk to anybody or get help.
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A big problem /w Story Points and why they are a terrible (trash) metric is the confusion when defining them. In one post provided below, SPs = Time. In the authors referenced post, SPs = Capacity. Which is it? Cycle time, Throughput, Item Age, and WIP Limits are clearly defined.
Peter Kretzman@PeterKretzman
@ryanripley @theavowhisperer @allenholub @todd_miller11 This has been defined & defended quite specifically, for years. Asking these basic Qs, especially in the context of (literally) trash talking, comes off as disingenuous. See Mike Cohn, “Story Points Are Still About Effort“. mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/story-poi…. Or my peterkretzman.com/2018/10/24/quo…
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@allenholub @RonJeffries @ryanripley And "optimizing across all teams" implies that the teams are not self-organizing.
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@RonJeffries @ryanripley If we're trying to optimize the entire system, across all the teams, then a metric that doesn't vary from team to team is helpful for finding bottlenecks. For a single team to use internally? Doesn't make any difference at all.
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Phrases I don't like:
Thought leader → I have zero interest in leading thoughts. Ppl should think for themselves.
Technical expert → The list of things I don't know is infinite. Even if I know a bit more on some topic than you, I'm sure you know more on another topic than me
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@sebrose @rchatley @CentrePompidou I'll guess that it's both. My theory is that the translator intended "at last" but that was a mistranslation, most likely of "finalement." Like English "finally" that word has several meanings, only one of which is "at last." Just guess however.
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@rchatley @CentrePompidou I didn’t look at the French language version. It may be a spelling mistake, or a failure of literal translation.
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At the @CentrePompidou today, I saw this bio for Patti Smith. Not at all sure that “At least” means quite what they intended. #lostInTranslation
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@rdroft @unclebobmartin Somehow, being able to use things without knowledge, doesn't strike me as an improvement. It's more a characteristic of a beginner than of a seasoned practitioner.
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@unclebobmartin I think it rather modern languages and libraries encapsulated most of the patterns so modern developers can use it without knowledge that they using them. It just feels natural.
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Do some languages have features that obviate certain design patterns? Not in my experience. Rather there are some language features that facilitate certain patterns.
As a simple example consider the Strategy pattern. 🧵
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