Thursday, August 09, 2018

Dan North on Agile Transformation

"Transformation is not a transactional activity that starts and ends and has a budget, and it should not be treated as one". It is never finished, in the same way evolution or adaptation is never finished. The goal is rather to break free from the thinking that led to the incumbent system by introducing a new paradigm, and then to use this to achieve a new steady state where the organisation is responding quickly and effectively to external and internal feedback, behaving like a genuine learning organisation.

Lean Agile Procurement

https://www.lean-agile-procurement.com/mission

DAYS instead of Months
NEEDS instead of Wants
ADAPTIVE instead of Fixed
PARTNERSHIP instead of Relationship
FUN instead of pain

Tuesday, August 07, 2018

DevOps Tools


Good visuals by John Cutler on why agile isn't working...

Changes to scrum


  1. Chicken and pigs
  2. Dev teams no longer "commit", they forecast
  3. Grooming replaced by refinement
  4. The three questions in daily scrum are an option, DS can be conducted in various ways as long as in the context of sprint goal.
  5. Team is responsible for daily scrum instead of scrum master

If we already have automation, what's the need for Agents?

“Automation” and “agent” sound similar — but they solve very different classes of problems. Automation = Fixed Instruction → Fixed Outcome ...