Paul Shepheard

Husband, dad, technophile, guitarist - tries hard to keep them in that order, doesn’t always succeed. He / him. Views very much my own.

[Paul Shepheard @hamletarable]

Some thoughts on value measures in software driven delivery systems... #impactmetrics https://t.co/V3asBpFfYf

[Paul Shepheard @hamletarable]

@LordBaldrick @VirginMoney Dev Tools -> View Source 🤷‍♂️

[Paul Shepheard @hamletarable]

@LordBaldrick Tools tend to be useful….just sayin’ 🙂

[Paul Shepheard @hamletarable]

I mean, it's not wrong.....

[Paul Shepheard @hamletarable]

@eikonne I think this is true of most things. Knowing how things should be is 5% of the effort…driving the change is where the value is…but no always the limelight. Was it Patty McCord who said “problem finders are cheap”? 🙂

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[Paul Shepheard @hamletarable]

@gojkoadzic But the beauty of my thingy abstraction framework is that you don’t need to know how many things are on top of things....

[Paul Shepheard @hamletarable]

@tastapod @johncutlefish @marick @GabbyPatrick will see you and raise you Crazy 8’s 😁

[Paul Shepheard @hamletarable]

@mattwynne Happy to chat any time, let me know if you want to go into more depth / detail. Hope you’re keeping well - looking forward to meeting up again when we’re out the other side of all this!

[Paul Shepheard @hamletarable]

@mattwynne Specifically, it allowed us to remove the traditional UAT sign off late in the cycle, replaced with sign-off of the behaviours up front. When they are coded and go green, we can push. There are other considerations of course - e.g usability - but these were dealt with mid sprint

[Paul Shepheard @hamletarable]

@khangharoth Strong agree! “But I just like designing and building cars, I don’t have much interest in how they perform over time once they roll off the conveyor belt..” - that kind of thinking isn’t much good to car buyers who need to get places!

[Paul Shepheard @hamletarable]

@tottinge @bguthrie @tastapod @ckeithray @tastapod has been nudging me to write up something more comprehensive than a few tweets for a while! I've not prioritised this yet, but there's clearly some interest in the topic. I write roughly one blog post a year, maybe 2021 is when this one gets written up 😀

[Paul Shepheard @hamletarable]

@bguthrie @tastapod @tottinge @ckeithray However, in that regulated environment, we were able to deploy multiple times a day with no user down time, and it was because we were provably compliant that we were able to do that. It took effort to get there for sure but in the end, a lot more was delivered as a result

[Paul Shepheard @hamletarable]

@bguthrie @tastapod @tottinge @ckeithray As ever, it's all about context. This was in a regulated environment. In others, going fast and only adding the controls you really need after a few crashes may be a better way. A/B testing and great o11y can help limit the blast radius of that approach

[Paul Shepheard @hamletarable]

@gojkoadzic @tastapod and the game completed at the exact time we estimated, so there's that....