Simon Sablowski

Guiding organisations toward strategic alignment, purposeful innovation, and delighted customers

[Alex Brogan @_alexbrogan]

Most companies suck at setting goals.

But Google, Amazon, and Microsoft figured it out ages ago.

Here’s their simple but powerful goal-setting framework (that you can use personally too):

[t3n Magazin @t3n]

Nur wer in der Lage ist, flexibel auf Marktveränderungen zu reagieren, kann langfristig wirtschaften und wachsen – Stichwort Resilienz. Mit den richtigen Methoden und Werkzeugen kann jede Organisation herausfinden, wie es um sie steht. [Anzeige] https://t.co/3K0CRYmY28

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Only 2.6% of the ants in a colony are constantly active 🐜

More than 25% of ants observed are never working, and 71.9% are inactive half of the time.

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

Regarding SAFe being somehow good because it adds structure: I'm told that being in prison also adds structure to your life. I wouldn't recommend it as a standard practice.

[Danijel Višević @visevic]

The consequences of the climate crisis in a nutshell by @jrockstrom:

[John Miller @agileschools]

Would a simpler way to Limit WIP be....only when we finish an item do we start a new item?

[agile42 @agile42]

Here are 4 common Agile frameworks and methods that have emerged in the last few decades ➡️

Scrum
Extreme Programming
Kanban
Design Thinking

To find out about their key elements and some differences between them, read our blog by @simonsablowski ➡️

https://t.co/FVud94B0IP

[Mike Cohn @mikewcohn]

Splitting #userstories. It’s something I get asked about every day. I got asked so much, that I invented the SPIDR acronym to make it easy to remember the 5 simple, but powerful, ways to split user stories.

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

Meanwhile in Russia: genocidal denials of the Ukrainian identity from the host and his guest. They claim that Ukrainians are just mentally ill Russians, whom they will "cure" once Russia wins. They propose destroying all Holodomor memorials. They discuss killing Americans. Watch:

[Melissa Perri @lissijean]

“I can’t point to a single good product company today that uses SAFe” @cagan

#agile #prodmgmt

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

A USER STORY describes a user's work in the domain. It describes a domain-level problem.

A USE CASE describes a broad interaction between a user and the system. It describes a computer program.

Use cases do not describe outcomes. Stories do. If find them much more useful.

[Marko Kovic @marko_kovic]

1/ Hey, kennt ihr Steven Seagal, den Action-Filmstar von anno dazumal? Heute ist er Kreml-Propagandist.

Wie ist es soweit gekommen? Schnallt euch an, es wird wild. 🧵

[Jeff Gothelf @jboogie]

7 Questions to Craft the Perfect Product Story https://t.co/Ur5kxlG1ro

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

Re. "Fail fast." I don't set out to fail. I accept it as part of the learning process, but I don't court it. I'd rather succeed. However, when I work tiny, occasional failure is easily corrected. Maybe, instead of "fail fast," we should be saying "fail small."

[maybrit illner @maybritillner]

Russland zeigt sich offen für Verhandlungen – doch sei Putin nicht an einer Verhandlungslösung sei Putin interessiert, so @MKlein1973 Expertin für russische Militärpolitik. Interesse gebe es nur „an Verhandlungen zur Kapitulation der Ukraine“
➡️https://t.co/20hwsR4t6F
@SWPBerlin

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

No. Things don't take longer. Let's look at one way to make stories smaller. The image in the QT is the first step in breaking up a large story into many small ones. (Something they evidently didn't do.) A "workflow diagram" like that is the first step. 1/5

[agile42 @agile42]

According to a 2022 survey by @flexjobs, toxic company culture is the number one reason people leave their jobs. Here are some signs that yours may need some work and some pointers on how to fix them.

https://t.co/EG3tGV7QcH

[tagesschau @tagesschau]

US-Verschwörungstheoretiker Jones muss fast eine Milliarde Dollar zahlen https://t.co/mdZdHCvw1r #USVerschwörungstheoretiker #Schulmassaker

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

Working at the feature (or "epic") level is a way to defer high-value work for low-value work. All big things contain small things not worth building. Working on those in order to "finish the feature" is waste. Work on the most valuable thing, regardless of "feature," instead.

[Jeff Patton @jeffpatton]

I call it “a meeting” when it’s a waste of time, collaboration when it’s useful; a “requirement” when I disagree, a good idea when I like it; “process” when I hate doing it, the way we work when it makes sense. Probably too cynical. Too many mandatory backlog grooming meetings.