Todd Scanlan

@ottawa_titans Will you have fireworks games this upcoming season?

The countdown to Opening Day is ON! 📅 Swipe to check out our 2025 Schedule! 👉 #HereToStay

@AmandaBernardo Great Job! Very well laid out and informative

⭐ The Change Management Playbook - How to deliver #changemanagement as a service ... is now live! ⭐ To learn more and to download your copy, visit: amandabernardo.ca/2024/04/30/del… #changeleadership #gc #gcdigital #leadersgc

@RobButler @KatherineDines What's going on with GC transformation?

@KatherineDines It's just too many things. #Ottawa transformation. GC transformation. Canada needing a productivity transformation. And, perhaps a world transformation required! It's a lot :)

#GoC Health check. How is everybody doing out there? I am doing “okay,” but a lot is happening. How about you?

@RobButler Seems like not a lot for IT transformation

Well, this is exciting.

@davidjbland It's all about market penetration amirite

@acroll That's why you gotta pivot into a coach the coach role 😉

The whole “skip doing the work and become a coach to those doing the work” hustle seems a house of cards at best and a Ponzi scheme at worst.

All of human knowledge is contained within these two books.

@dr_abela Harpreet returns to IRCC! he was ops Adm for a few years

@dr_abela 100% agree with Wernick on this. There really needs to be a 'come to Jesus' moment for gov and implement some big changes. We need public sector reform.

@ryanripley @estherderby @LearnFiveRules @ds_horowitz I feel like this is targeted towards a certain Chris....

Browsing the table of contents for the 2nd ed of Agile Retrospectives by @estherderby @LearnFiveRules and @ds_horowitz and I didn't see "create a Harry Potter themed retro" anywhere... 🤣 I'm looking forward to the revised book. It's much needed. #agile pragprog.com/titles/dlret2/…

@allenholub Over relying on a Definition of Ready is another waterfall symptom 🦨

If you had any hope that "Agile" wasn't doomed, take a look at these two polls from LinkedIn. In one case, the most popular answer is the one that is the least Agile. User stories are _supposed_ to be fuzzy/unclear. These people want Waterfall specifications, not user stories. In the second one, 30% of the respondents say that SWFe s useful. It isn't useful for anything Agile (though if you're a hugely huge megacorp in utter chaos, I suppose it's better than nothing). At least that one had the mindset answer first, but it's not _just_ a mindset. The whole thing is horrific.

User stories are supposed to be unclear. They're anything from a word to a sentence long with no implementation details. (They describe the user's work, not yours.) They are a reminder to have a conversation just before and during implementation. Fill in the details during Sprint Planning or equivalent—just enough detail to start, not finish. Collect additional details with more conversations as you work. Collecting lots of detail up front is just a waterfall requirements-gathering phase. No agility there.

I recently talked about User Stories on my YouTube channel, and got asked by several people about how I would deal with "Back End Stories", so here is a thread User stories for "Back End" vs User stories for "Front End" a #Thread 1/14

@lissijean @dtilles Will there be an audiobook edition?

The Product Operations book is finally available for purchase on Amazon! @dtilles and I have been working on this baby for over two years. You can purchase now on Amazon (kindle will download on Thurs!) /1 amazon.com/Product-Operat… #productops

10 Lessons from How To Finish Everything You Start

Strategy ⬇️ OKRs ⬇️ Problem statements ⬇️ Solution hypotheses ⬇️ Experiments ⬇️ Evidence ⬇️ Iteration / course correction ⬇️ Agility ⬇️ Customer value

@AmandaBernardo We need gov reform and a re-imagined view of what government can be which will require changing the way we fund mandates, our org structure and roles

If a government falls short of its digital transformation goals, there are several critical risks and consequences at play. Failure to modernize stifles innovation, hindering the development of new services and products. More thoughts 👇🏼 #gc linkedin.com/posts/amandabe…

@fvelasco007 Oh noooooooooooo

@toddscanlan A Work Breakdown Structure

At a meeting today was asked to fill out more than a couple hundred lines in a WBS why are we still doing this in one of the biggest #GC transformation projects what happened to the promise of being #GCDigital ?

@ThePeterMick It's Netflix for cats

Are you working on your startup this weekend? 🚀 Go ahead and pitch it to us below 👇 #buildinpublic