The the following key “AVOID” points were made:
- Avoid endless ticketing systems and [JIRA] “ticket-driven development”
- Avoid seeing “agile” now == Half-assed Scrum plus Jira tickets
- Avoid small tasks disconnected with context
- Avoid bogus “snake oil” tools & methods
- Avoid disconnected leadership, stakeholders, product owners, etc.
- Avoid destructive Social Media platforms
- Avoid disinformation and manipulation
- Avoid naive adoption of Large Language Models (chatGPT, et al. It ain’t AI.)
- Avoid individual-goal oriented only
- Avoid people being micro-managed, threatened, to deliver
- Avoid people need to be told what to do
- Avoid people have no intrinsic incentive to work, need $$ rewards
- Avoid people viewed as resources (not as assets)
For more “AVOID” and some important “TRY” recommendations, please download the materials.