Agile Tom

Most technical debt is technical embezzlement. There's never any real intention to pay it back. Step one, really, is just to come clean.

Agile Transformation: Are You Ready? globallogic.com/insights/blogs…

Why You Should Refactor — Not Rewrite — Your Code: forbes.com/sites/forbeste… 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.

What is Moonshot thinking & how can I use it in my startup? eu-startups.com/2021/07/what-i… 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.

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.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9li…

Worse than a bad smell: wrong metrics & toxic governance bbc.com/news/uk-englan… 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"'

Seven Ways to Encourage a More #Agile Work Culture (and Why You Should): rollingstone.com/culture-counci…

Hardening sprint: Scrum anti-pattern or necessity? searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/feature/Harden… 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!

How to Deal with Technical Debt – a Guide for IT Leaders: brainhub.eu/library/how-to… 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

Focusing On The Most Meaningful Metrics: forbes.com/sites/forbesag… Key Quote: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” - Charles Goodhart

Do Executives Help or Hinder Agile Teams? informationweek.com/strategic-cio/… Meow: An excellent post on executive psychopathology, and how #agile change is stifled where "hubris and narcissism dominate".

XOps: Real or Hype? informationweek.com/big-data/xops-… 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.

How To Succeed With #DevOps In A Zero Trust World: forbes.com/sites/louiscol…

"How to Evolve and Scale Your DevOps Programs and Optimize Success": infoq.com/articles/evolv… 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.

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-to-skip-r…

WEF releases "#Agile Regulation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Toolkit for Regulators" weforum.org/pages/agile-re… Quote: "In one UK study, just 29% of the businesses surveyed thought that regulation enabled innovative products & services to be brought to market efficiently"

Why Predictability is More Important than Speed in Agile Marketing martechtoday.com/why-predictabi… 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

Bringing up Baby, the #Lean and #Agile Way: industryweek.com/operations/con…

The thing is, now, every time I see a toddler throw a tantrum I see an attempted coup.

#2020Election fashion update. The best way to avoid the tie is to throw out the suits. salon.com/2020/11/05/jud…