Sometimes while reading along song lyrics, I get some silly inspiration. One of these days, recently I listened to Breaking the Law from Judas Priest and got the following idea for an Agile version of the lyrics.
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Remembering Jerry Weinberg: Perfect Software… and other illusions about testing
It’s been four years since – sadly – Gerald M. “Jerry” Weinberg passed away. Ever since then, I struggled with some public mourning about him, until recently I had just the right idea. On a weekly basis, I will publish a review of a book I read that Jerry either wrote himself or is about some of his work. For this week, I picked Perfect Software… and other illusions about testing, co-authored with James Bach, and published by Dorset House in 2008.
Imagine…
Imagine a world of work in which we no longer fight about agile or not agile, Scrum or not Scrum, Kanban or not Kanban.
Imagine a team that continuously adds value while providing the needed information for the business to have the company thrive.
Imagine what would be possible in such a world, and what would stop working.
I think at the heart of agile software development once stood this imagination, resulting in all the different things we see in the agile cosmos today.
Unfortunately, this imagination sort of has been replaced by all the discussions we have around this vs. that. To maybe bring back these initial driving thoughts, I send you off to the weekend with your own imagination, hoping that you will bring back that agile essence next week.
Release trains – let’s critique the metaphor
A couple of years back, while I was involved in a group that eventually created the ScALeD principles, we were of course discussing the benefits of the different scaling approaches out there. One of the participants – I think it was Andreas Schliep – mentioned to me that the release train concept in the scaling approach that Mike Beedle always referred to as S_Fe was pretty clever. Since I spent some amount of time on trains in the past twelve years, I tend to disagree. Let’s see how I perceive the release train metaphor based on my experiences in the German train infrastructure.
Remembering Jerry Weinberg: More Secrets of Consulting
It’s been four years since – sadly – Gerald M. “Jerry” Weinberg passed away. Ever since then, I struggled with some public mourning about him, until recently I had just the right idea. On a weekly basis, I will publish a review of a book I read that Jerry either wrote himself or is about some of his work. Today, we continue the topic of consulting as I picked More Secrets of Consulting – The Consultant’s Tool Kit published by Dorset House in 2002.
Who knows what is good or bad?
At times, I find myself judging things around me. As I consistently identified as INTJ in the MBTI tests I took, this comes as no wonder for me. However, judging a situation can be a dimension in the MBTI preferences that I may want to work on, as I keep on re-discovering the wisdom of Taoism in my life. Let me explain with a quote from a Tao book.
Continue reading Who knows what is good or bad?Celebrate failure
A colleague of mine shared something online that got my brain working. Just earlier I pointed out a lesson to another coach that I learned from Diana Larsen regarding errors or failures.
Let’s dig into this.
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Remembering Jerry Weinberg: The Secrets of Consulting
It’s been four years since – sadly – Gerald M. “Jerry” Weinberg passed away. Ever since then, I struggled with some public mourning about him, until recently I had just the right idea. On a weekly basis, I will publish a review of a book I read that Jerry either wrote himself or is about some of his work. Today, I picked the classic The Secrets of Consulting – A guide to giving & getting advice successfully published by Dorset House in 1985.
What worried me about running, tested features
I recall when I read the #noestimates book, there was a concept that felt strange to me – and it still does. Without spoiling too much, at one point the concept of running, tested feature (RTF) is introduced. Let’s explore my thoughts together.
Continue reading What worried me about running, tested featuresAgile Songs – Let there by Scrum
Sometimes while reading along song lyrics, I get some silly inspiration. One of these days, recently I listened to Let there by Rock by AC/DC and got the following idea for an Agile version of the lyrics.
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