Business Don’t Hire Top Talent; Hire for Weaknesses. (via Software Lead Weekly) This post had a thorough set of descriptions to differentiate the talent mindset from the weakness mindset. Why you should invest in undervalued people (via Software Lead Weekly)…
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Professional Development – 2021 – Week 15
Business Research: How to Get Better at Killing Bad Projects (via Harvard Business Review) Many of the stage gates (i.e., no/no-go decisions) may have information that’s unavailable or unreliable. Instead watch the market in which the assumptions rose to bring…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 14
Agile Top-10 Objectives for Agile Coaches (via Marten den Haring) This post has some connections to some very deep topics, especially around organizational structure and culture. I’ve added Laloux’s book to my to-read list. Some areas I’ll be focusing on…
Working Effectively with Legacy Code – Part 2
This week we covered chapters three and four — Sensing and Separation and The Seam Model — of Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. Sensing and Separation This statement strongly resonated with Houston: “One of the big problems…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 13
Business How to Shift from Selling Products to Selling Services (via Harvard Business Review) You can’t just sell a three-year license of a software product and leave them alone. SaaS typically works by billing for consumption, like water and electricity…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 12
Agile Summary: The Agile Coaching DNA This book was part of my professional development as an Agile coach. This book walks around the landscape of Agile coaching, why it exists, and whom it serves. It’s full of activities any coach…
Summary: The Agile Coaching DNA
I learned about this book from a blog post Marten den Haring shared with me. Given my role as an Agile subject matter expert at Lirio, reading this book is part of my self-guided professional development. For a chapter-by-chapter summary,…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 11
Agile Value Definition in Agile Transformation (via Leading Agile) This article about business value and IT value alignment reminded me of the Steve Maraboli quotation about relationships, “Let’s not forget it’s you and me vs. the problem… NOT you vs….
Working Effectively with Legacy Code – Part 1
This week we covered the preface & introduction, and the first two chapters (Changing Software and Working with Feedback) of Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. Preface & Introduction I had a similar experience getting into writing code…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 10
Civics What if we replaced elected politicians with randomly selected citizens? Sounds like a wonderful idea, and it appears the pilot for the concept was a success. I agree that our current solution has optimized for the wrong criteria, and…