Ken Ritchie

Agility Coach/Trainer. CSM, CSPO, PMI-ACP, PMP, ICP-ACC, SAFe SPC, 6σGB, TKP. Org Mindset Lean-Agile Enterprise Coach. Teamwork Facilitator. ENFP Dad ;-)

[Ken Ritchie @classmaker]

Back to the Future, at #Agile2013, 10 words, from @arlobelshee.

[Arlo Belshee @arlobelshee]

Agile in 10 words: Work tiny. Prove it. Get done. Learn constantly. Work together. Note: the tech is first.

[Ken Ritchie @classmaker]

@Kevinmo5211146 17 years experience, not age.
“…a pilot with 17 years of experience…”
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[Ken Ritchie @classmaker]

@rhobackbob 17 years experience, not age.
“…a pilot with 17 years of experience…”
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[Ken Ritchie @classmaker]

“Most teams archive too much. We err on the side of archiving everything, because we can. But when we archive everything, we make the things we truly need harder to find.” - @ttorres

https://t.co/YYagp8loUz

#prodmgmt #ux #engineering

[Ken Ritchie @classmaker]

@NicolaLindgren And always remember,
“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!”
~Edsger W. Dijkstra (EWD)

[Ken Ritchie @classmaker]

I love this book! An amazing book on getting mentors was released last week, Mentor to Millions. I was told it's 99 cents on Kindle until the end of TODAY. https://t.co/PJbL2SnPHV

[Ken Ritchie @classmaker]

@jessefewell Hey folks, if you don’t know Jesse you don’t know what you are missing! He is an agile game-changer. Follow @jessefewell and you’ll be informed and inspired!

I’m eager to put the knowledge from Jesse’s new book #untappedagility to work and share it with my colleagues!

[Gitte Klitgaard - out of here - find me on bluesky @NativeWired]

With all the people working remote, you may want to remember to take care of the social part of work as well.
We sometimes undervalue the need for that.

One example can be to pair up and have coffee/tea breaks together over video.
That feels good when you are home alone :)

[Ken Ritchie @classmaker]

@NativeWired @neil_killick Try the magic of *cadence* : a recurring whole-team slot; then add just enough agenda just in time. No more hunting! ;-)

[Ken Ritchie @classmaker]

Try the magic of *cadence* : a recurring whole-team slot; then add just enough agenda just in time. No more hunting! ;-)

[Gitte Klitgaard - out of here - find me on bluesky @NativeWired]

I feel like I just spent my whole day looking for slots in people's calendars, so we can talk....
For a whole team it seems impossible

[Not Fake Adam Kalsey @akalsey]

@johannarothman @neil_killick You often have to buy yourself some space away from the crazy pressure before you can exercise patience.

Pick one thing, empower the team, shield them from the pressure. Use this success to gain trust from the pressure source.

Flip that trust into more patience.

[Neil Killick @neil_killick]

It's simple really —
☑️ Hire smart, motivated people
☑️ Tell them what needs to be achieved, not what you want them to do
☑️ Provide the tools, support and space they require
☑️ Step forward when they need you to, otherwise stand back
☑️ Be patient
☑️ Watch the magic happen

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

The word “unit” in “unit-testing” usually just means “small”. Other than that, the word has no agreed definition. Some TDDers call them micro-tests to stress the smallness. I prefer “programmer tests” because, using TDD, they are written by programmers for programmers.

[George Dinwiddie ([email protected]) @gdinwiddie]

A jelled Agile software development team can be like this, also.

[IT Revolution @ITRevBooks]

1/ The Phoenix Project #ebook is *free* today (Dec 19) on @amazon & other bookseller sites.

If there’s someone you think should read it, now’s your chance. Retweet + tag your friends, colleagues, bosses.

Link: https://t.co/bOsooqMOw6

(A Thread) @RealGeneKim @kevinbehr @gspaff

[estherderby 🌻 @estherderby]

@ruthmalan @BreneBrown @skamille I wish everyone in a leadership/mgmt position who is in a position to measure stuff would read Measuring & Managing Performance in Organizations (fondly MMPO) by Austin + what ever @t_magennis has posted about metrics. And his book on this topic, when it comes to life.

[Ken Ritchie @classmaker]

Bravo!!! When I make my heavenly escape you my lift my cold, dead pinky off that real, live ESC key. Until then, I’m on it! ;-)

[Ken Ritchie @classmaker]

@mike_cre @unclebobmartin ETA forecast (and actual) subject to change ;-)

[Ken Ritchie @classmaker]

Indeed, we (re)plan often, even daily: just enough, just in time!

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

The notion that there is no planning in Agile is remarkably ignorant. Planning is the core practice of Agile.

Observe, Plan, Execute, Evaluate. Over and over and over.

[Jeff Sutherland @jeffsutherland]

An awsome statement of Agile Values https://t.co/U0U3yGKacQ

[Ken Ritchie @classmaker]

@WoodyZuill Yup! Do the inverse of Mel “Conway’s Law” (Brooks)