Tag: agile
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Context-switching is the main productivity killer for developers – #1 way to improve developer productivity, 30+ years running: stop interrupting them while they’re coding. // ”Research from UC Irvine shows that developers need an average of 23 minutes to rebuild their focus after an interruption fully.”
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The Product Model and Agile – Yeah, getting to “agile product management” is tough. The Pivotal Labs people seemed to have figured it out, but marrying up weekly app releases with applying the scientific method to your app’s features (product management) is elusive.
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How to break free from your “toxic productivity” cycle – “if you’re not able to carve out even 20 minutes for yourself, then something needs to change in your life.” // Tools that find the priorities are hard: “We hear a lot about how to optimize for productivity, but what we don’t have is the…
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How Toyota is revolutionizing manufacturing with AI | Google Cloud Blog – All your hybrid/multi-cloud stuff like bursting and on-premises access, mixed in with AI uses, including training models. Some notes on introducing agile practices and CI/CD for the AI apps and uses. A Google Cloud customer, too.
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Hey, wait – is employee performance really Gaussian distributed?? – Where there’s a bell curve, beware bullshit. Also, we all know this stack ranking practice is not good, right?
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– Why Developers Are Unresponsive to Traditional Marketing – They just want to try the actual tool without a lot of bullshit. At the very least, they want to see a realistic use of it: actually typing, no business outcomes babbling.
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– From Agile to Radical: conflict – How management can deal with: “There are at least three consequences of unresolved conflict that I’ve experienced in practice: unaddressed business areas, repeated patterns of unproductive behavior and undoing each other’s progress.” // A little bit on European work-culture too.
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– Stop Team Topologies – Don’t use an understandable system to avoid asking why you’re doing anything in the first place. // Or: all the value is in the “it depends.”
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Platforms Engineering – Not a fan: “Platform engineering isn’t gluing a bunch of off-the-shelf tools together. More templates, variables, and YAML isn’t going to make it easier for application developers to deploy faster, reduce cognitive load, and still innovate (a topic for another time). And the CFO isn’t going to fund multiple platform teams–at least…
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How to Keep Learning at Work — Even When You Feel Fried – Enterprise Mindfulness: find out what you want to focus on and personally find valuable, then use your own motivation to structure work that fits your own goals. Also: try to have less toil/cognitive load.
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Cycle Time – Time spent figuring out this nuance is time spent not coding and getting your apps out the door and kicking in the product management feedback cycle. Still, good discussion of the nuances of the phrase.
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Beyond mystic management mind-games
Searching for Cheap Tricks The amount of AI content and conversations out there is getting exhausting. It’s almost as bad as the burbling font of platform engineering content that gets rewritten and published each week. The below RAND paper and commentary got me thinking though: a lot of the AI talk is just talk about…
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Platform engineering problems: can ops actually do product management?
Are you at a large organization doing platform engineering? Have you been building and/or using a platform? How are you introducing product management in your operations group? I want to test a theory that’s come up in my conversations a lot this summer: introducing product management into ops and infrastructure organizations is too difficult. It…
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How to blackmail your boss into adopting platform engineering, DevOps, agile, etc.
This is a good talk listing some tactics for changing how organizations work. It’s targeted at executives. What’s bonkers is that, as the screenshot below, it has just 27 views. In the talk, we have a former group CIO at American Airlines. She’s telling you her tips for how to introduce change in a large…
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How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one – An overview of agile development I co-wrote. The most distinct thing about the Pivotal Labs (now Tanzu Labs) methodology is following XP. The second most distinct thing is balanced teams. The third: actually following the practices.
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The Digital Transformation Card Game – an interview
This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast episode is an interview I did with Jana Werner. If you’re into software, DevOps, agile, product management…all that “digital transformation” stuff, you’ll like it. We go over a deck of cards she’s put together that are meant to provoke executives and managers to start thinking about they could change…
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Most developers have adopted devops, survey says – I’ll have to look at this more, but: “29% of developers used continuous integration to automatically build and test.” This means that 71% of respondents are not automating their builds and tests. // “Grady Booch first proposed the term CI in his 1991 method, although he did…
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How B2B Organizations Can Win With Younger Buyers – What the kids are up to. This feels like a description of youth of all generations. As the kids age in power, they both get tired, have their own kids, or otherwise just get tired and want to delegate, have help, or just coast. Until then:…
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What junior/senior developers and CTOs need to know about internal developer platforms
This is from last Fall at the SHIFT conference, but it still holds up: Relative to your interests Why Are Pants So Big (Again)? – tl;dr: you can wear comfortable jeans again. // “There’s constancy, I thought, and then there’s becoming a relic of yourself” And: “If you zoom out far enough, all the paroxysms…
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devPRops – better put PR in your backlog
Better put PR on the backlog Art for no one, by no one. Art whose only audience is the collective pathos. Incredible. [AI culture problems as art] The Gemini thing: the conversation around AI technology is now based on how it can navigate social and cultural issues, less if it “works.” These social and cultural…
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