Barnaby Golden

Agile coach (He/Him)

[Barnaby Golden @BarnabyGolden]

"Ask the team" is the answer to 95% of questions about Scrum.

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@davefarley77 100% agree with that. Even better is to build your systems in a way that makes measuring outcomes easier.

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@davefarley77 I suspect an organisation's attitude towards this will reflect how much they value investing in their employees.

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@davefarley77 I wonder if we had been better off naming those techniques and frameworks more literally, focusing more on the outcomes? By using short, ambiguous terms we opened the door for interpretation.

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@rgpoulussen Brilliant picture

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@womensart1 Lovely!

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@womensart1 Lovely!

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@davefarley77 Presenting on a topic that you don't fully believe in. Like when you are rolling out a new metric/approach being pushed from senior management.

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@davefarley77 A challenge is that organisations prefer easily quantifiable measures of candidates. Something like problem-solving is difficult to measure (and likely difficult to test for). That leads to a demand for tick-box skills at the expense of more subtle skills.

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@davefarley77 I agree with your overall point, but I do think we must recognise that a UI enabling team will become an external dependency for the Stream Aligned Team and so will complicate planning and estimating.

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@davefarley77 Believing you can accurately estimate how long a piece of work will take

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@davefarley77 Legacy code bug

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@davefarley77 That being in a supportive team is by far the most important thing about a job.

[Henrik Kniberg @henrikkniberg]

Some people worry that coding with chatgpt is cheating and inhibits your learning. Not in my experience. Sitting next to my 13-year old son now, he is building a game in unity and having a blast - "I've never had so much fun coding!!!" GPT is accelerating his learning by a ton.

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@davefarley77 Senior managers telling engineers how to do their jobs

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@ttorres I really like the continuous discovery approach, but I fear it will meet a lot of resistance. Making decisions about the product is fun and rewarding, so it can be a challenge to persuade senior people in an organisation to give up doing it.

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@nathanand Find an out of the way hill somewhere and do lots of practice at hill starts. If you can do a hill start, the rest is easy. Also, a tiny blip of the throttle before engaging first gear can help with some cars.

[Jayme Edwards @jaymeedwards]

Calling developers a “team” when they:

- Are independently measured.

- Must create tickets to help each other.

- Feel like asking for help is failure.

- Need PRs approved by specific people.

- Pull rank when decisions are made.

…is delusional.

#mobprogramming

[Kent Beck 🌻 @KentBeck]

Software design is preparation for change.

[Barnaby Golden @BarnabyGolden]

@rgpoulussen Interesting to contrast this with the war in Ukraine, which has high precision artillery, drones and highly effective soldier operated anti-tank weapons.

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@GinaGoesOutside The Murderbot Diaries are great