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I spent years thinking fast decisions made me a better leader. Then I noticed something. The leaders I admired most were the slowest to speak in meetings. Not because they had nothing to say. Because they knew speaking first would kill every idea that hadn't formed yet. One practice changed how I lead: before responding to any team decision I disagree with, I wait 24 hours. If the building isn't on fire, the delay won't matter. But it gives me time to separate "this is wrong" from "this isn't how I would have done it." Those are two very different things. And confusing them is how good leaders become bottlenecks.

@tottinge You can totally be both if your understanding of Scrum differs significantly from others. #askmehowIknow

Okay, folks make your minds up. Am I the anti-scrum crusader trying to wipe it off the earth, or the pro-scrum promoter telling everyone that they must use scrum? Likewise, AI. I cannot be 100% against and 100% in favor of things at the same time.

Build habits for your worst days. Good days take care of themselves.

You're not struggling with execution. You're protecting yourself from questions that would destroy your current identity.

@o1maxim @GergelyOrosz The common factor here is that in most of these case people felt smarter and more talented regardless of whether they actually were.

We as humans have already gone through this multiple times. - a top-spec camera in your pocket doesn't make everyone a great film director or photographer - access to any info on earth didn't make all humanity smarter - etc. It still takes a lot of work, but in the long run, we will likely see many new authors who started writing good stuff simply because LLMs made it a bit easier and more accessible for them.

Ironic: as LLMs make writing much easier, I am finding not more, but less interesting and novel things to read online. And so I keep paying more attention to the fewer people who still write their original thoughts (without LLMs - you can tell how repetitive it gets with them)

@agileschools It doesn't matter how fast you're going if you're going in the wrong direction. Actually it still matters, if you're going in the wrong direction you need to slow down!

The best teams don’t chase speed—they create the conditions where it happens naturally. #HighPerformance

Are you making progress or just staying busy? Not all work is worth your energy. #TimeManagement

@agileschools Hey! A lot of them don't actually update the tickets themselves! They have minions for that!

🧨 #DarkScrum Alert Sure...the Product Owner “owns” the backlog. Until someone above them overrules them. POs don’t make decisions. They update tickets. This isn’t ownership. It’s obedience. sbee.link/j38p7htbva

@jmeowmeow @TotherAlistair Yeah, that's an amazing read. It's even weirder if you lived through that change, felt that something was "now off" but couldn't figure it out until Antony pointed it out.

@TotherAlistair As an early XPer, I want to underline the actual point of User Stories by replying with a link to "How the Industry Broke the Connextra Template" by Antony Marcano. antonymarcano.com/blog/2016/08/h…

Some still vote for the "as-a/so-that" format; I ask all such to post examples of good "so that" statements. I only accept as evidence real examples of "as-a/so-that" stories that come from real projects. Anything else is (imho) just dreaming of unicorns.

@dneighbors That's not so terrible if it's a massage.

Most people judge quality by how something makes them feel, not by objective standards.

@doctorow I have memories of running workshops and meetings in the middle of the pandemic lockdown and how senior management were effectively unable to participate because of the size and power of their laptops. They were locked out of even a semi-reasonable remote work experience.

*The bigger the worse brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/792040868…

@doctorow This goes a long way to explaining return to office mandates!

Well, that cupboard was certainly overdue to be cleaned out!

so... the best way to solve a bug is to go on holiday and have every meal in the bathroom? 😂

A frog will jump out any water it finds uncomfortably hot. The frog in boiling water thing is a myth. Humans on the other hand seem perfectly content to be boiled alive, figuratively speaking of course.

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Simon is awesome. You should probably go to this, whether you think you need to, or not.

So awesome experiences with the course @cgosimon and @TrongHiepLe. Wish it could be more than two days. Thanks gents.

@melindafentonsm I however have no memory of the doing the Hokey Pokey...

Massive longshot I realise - but does anybody remember when I gave "What is the Sound of One Scrum Clapping?" talk? All I can find are dead links to a COVID Cancelled Conference I was going to do it at.

@melindafentonsm Photographic proof!