Agile Estimates Are Non-Transferrable (via Steve Smith) There are so many factors that go into determining an estimate, including who will actually be doing the work. This article supports that arguments with some examples, and a list of things to…
Radical Candor – Part 14
This week we finished Chapter 7 (team). Formatting note: I’m trying to strike a balance of codifying the useful tips the book covers, but we as a group skip because we don’t have anything noteworthy. Sentences in italics are those…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 38
Agile Emerging From Crisis By Putting People Above Profits (via Agile Amped) With recent COVID-19 layoffs, Vaco partnered with GiveCamp Memphis to help charities that can’t do various tech things on their own. They paired people impacted by COVID-19 to…
Thoughts: The Social Dilemma
I recently had a conversation with Emily Moses, and she recommended I watch The Social Dilemma so that we could later have a conversation about it. Although the running time is about ninety minutes, it took me nearly three hours…
Radical Candor – Part 13
This week we continued Chapter 7 (team) with the topics of growth management and hiring. Formatting note: I’m trying to strike a balance of codifying the useful tips the book covers, but we as a group skip because we don’t…
Summary: Do Better Work
This book by Max Yoder was recommended to me by Emily Moses (Chief People Officer at Lirio) shortly after she was hired. Emily and I enjoy reading about company culture and self-improvement, and this was one of the many titles…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 37
Agile Product Owner is a Bad Bad Idea (via Maarten Dalmijn) Two heavy hitters — Mary Poppendieck and Mike Cohn — have recently stated that the product owner (PO) role is a proxy between the people doing the work and…
Radical Candor – Part 12
This week we started Chapter 7 (team). Formatting note: I’m trying to strike a balance of codifying the useful tips the book covers, but we as a group skip because we don’t have anything noteworthy. Sentences in italics are those…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 36
Agile Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.5 Distilled (via Wade Chandler) Part of my professional development as Director of Agile Coaches is to understand what tools and frameworks exist in the Agile space. SAFe is a framework for doing Agile beyond…
Summary: SAFe 4.5 Distilled
Upon starting my role as Director of Agile Coaches at Lirio, I learned that many of the development teams were using parts of Essential SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), as the leaders of those teams had done so at their previous…