This week our book club talked about chapters 4 through 6. Chapter 4 The Phoenix Project is launching anyway despite no one having confidence in any shape or form. There’s a serious lack of communication about how this should work,…
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Professional Development – 2020 – Week 4
Agile Why Agile Methodologies Miss The Mark For AI & ML Projects (via Google News) The title is aligned with my current company and role — using machine learning in an Agile environment. I also pride myself in occasionally reading…
The Unicorn Project – Part 1
Having read The Phoenix Project last year, our book club has chosen The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data for our next read. We’ve (Houston Miller, Jameson McGhee, and me) added…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 3
Agile Iteration Planning We’re trying to establish sizes of stories, so I wanted to see what SAFe prescribes. Story points are mentioned, but it seems like you could use whatever unit you wanted — hours, points, etc. — so long…
Making Work Visible – Part 8
This week we wrapped up the book by discussing the art of the meeting, beastly practices, and the conclusion. The Art of the Meeting Lean Coffee has some of the feel of an Agile retrospective, but it’s about more than…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 2
Agile Modernization Case Study at CSG (via Agile Amped) It’s risky to go dark for 18 months and $100M to modernize Take a piece of the system over time using version control, infra automation, testing, CI, feature flags, code porting,…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 1
Career Don’t Quit Until You Ask Yourself These Questions (via Lifehacker) What aspect of this situation is making me want to quit? What’s the problem here? Can I fix the problem? If I can’t fix the problem, will it improve…
Year in Review: 2019
Although it takes effort and discipline to capture the content for these yearly reviews, I continue to be amazed by how much I accomplish personally and professionally each year. The areas I focused on (in no particular order) include community…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 52
Career What Happens When Your Career Becomes Your Whole Identity (via Harvard Business Review) Things that lead to enmeshment of your identity with your career are (1) being rewarded for working longer hours, (2) career achievements are highly values in…
Making Work Visible – Part 7
This week we talked about metrics, making time thieves visible, and the operations review. Your Metrics or Your Money The idea of using a probabilistic approach instead of a hard estimate is something Geoff had seen in Waltzing with Bears:…