Click to Download Click to Download 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 … Read more
Synopsis: AI & Org Design: AI tools are going to disrupt many existing knowledge-worker roles, including those in product development. This talk and follow-up Q&A explores probable impacts AI will have on the organizational design of development organizations, and will be of interest to those working in and managing development, plus HR/People groups. Download materials
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Download Materials Synopsis: Hear how Agile Manifesto Co-Author Jon Kern approaches software development. Jon will discuss the foundations he considers to be necessary for producing a successful software product. He will also touch on what he has recently discovered as a missing piece to his practice of helping teams become high-performing. Bio: Jon Kern – … Read more
This topic was based on the questions, crowdsourced from the audience, for Professor Snowden. The questions covered: Complexity management vs. complexity reduction. This jives so much with dependency management vs. dependency reduction. Companies tend to skillfully MANAGE complexity and dependencies, with more tools, processes and processors, as opposed to reducing them. Any thoughts on this? … Read more
Industry Announcements That Led To This Discussion. On January 19, both Bloomberg and Reuters, independently, came out with the news about one large American bank holding company that eliminated 1100 Tech Jobs, and by making this decision, directly impacted ‘agile delivery’ roles/agile jobs families. (click the links above for details). Interestingly, a few years ago, … Read more
The following two LeSS guides for technical excellence are captured in LeSS book 1 and 2: Guide: Communicate in Code. This is the best way for developers to exchange information and understand each other’s work. Reading someone’s clean code and not having the need to be given additional interpretation of what the code means is … Read more
