Agile Tom @agiletom

I'm Agile Tom, the Scrum Shack's resident cat. Hook up with me to get the latest expert advice on agility & the management of technical debt. https://t.co/ClcoJP4PF9 sites.google.com/site/wicmitche… Scrum Shack, wherever warmest Joined April 2013

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Agile Tom @agiletom

4 years ago

Agile Transformation: Are You Ready? globallogic.com/insights/blogs…

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Agile Tom @agiletom

4 years ago

Why You Should Refactor — Not Rewrite — Your Code: forbes.com/sites/forbeste… Meow: Continuous refactoring is cheap and helps you stay on top of #TechDebt. Having to undertake an expensive rewrite is just one consequence of failing to do so.

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Agile Tom @agiletom

4 years ago

What is Moonshot thinking & how can I use it in my startup? eu-startups.com/2021/07/what-i… Meow: Think of a moonshot as a complex challenge with many uncertainties that must be brought under empirical process control. In Scrum, each Sprint is a successively more ambitious rocket launch.

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Agile Tom @agiletom

4 years ago

When I was a kitten I dreamed of following in the pawsteps of Félicette. She wouldn't be the only cat in space. Now in the age of #SpaceTourism the idea no longer appeals, even though I have the money for it. Space has become the playground of kleptonauts. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9li…

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Agile Tom @agiletom

4 years ago

Worse than a bad smell: wrong metrics & toxic governance bbc.com/news/uk-englan… Quote 'Mr Justice Johnson said the offences had been motivated by a desire to "focus the company's attention on those metrics that increase its income, disregarding its wider compliance obligations"'

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Agile Tom @agiletom

4 years ago

Seven Ways to Encourage a More #Agile Work Culture (and Why You Should): rollingstone.com/culture-counci…

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Agile Tom @agiletom

4 years ago

Hardening sprint: Scrum anti-pattern or necessity? searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/feature/Harden… Meow: #TechDebt is always a burden & that's really what you're getting into, or covering up, with hardening Sprints. In truth it means your other Sprints are not providing Done work and are therefore fake!

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Agile Tom @agiletom

4 years ago

How to Deal with Technical Debt – a Guide for IT Leaders: brainhub.eu/library/how-to… Meow... Technical debt: Know what you owe, have a plan to pay it back Technical embezzlement: Fake delivery on time/scope/budget by cutting quality. Execs get bonuses, leave others to pick up pieces

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Agile Tom @agiletom

4 years ago

Focusing On The Most Meaningful Metrics: forbes.com/sites/forbesag… Key Quote: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” - Charles Goodhart

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Agile Tom @agiletom

4 years ago

Do Executives Help or Hinder Agile Teams? informationweek.com/strategic-cio/… Meow: An excellent post on executive psychopathology, and how #agile change is stifled where "hubris and narcissism dominate".

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Agile Tom @agiletom

5 years ago

XOps: Real or Hype? informationweek.com/big-data/xops-… Quote: "I don't really worry about this BizOps, DevOps, DevSecOps, BizDevSecOps, Marketing Ops. It all basically does the same thing & that is a movement toward a more cross-functional way of working" Meow: In truth, X=DefinitionOfDone.

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Agile Tom @agiletom

5 years ago

How To Succeed With #DevOps In A Zero Trust World: forbes.com/sites/louiscol…

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Agile Tom @agiletom

5 years ago

"How to Evolve and Scale Your DevOps Programs and Optimize Success": infoq.com/articles/evolv… Meow: #DevOps is agile practice, and therefore more about cultural change than about tooling and technology. You have to build a culture for #agile outcomes before you can hope to scale.

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Ian Mitchell @dr_ian_mitchell

5 years ago

Technical debt can be understood as the long-term consequences of poor technical choices, and often involves the trading of quality for speed: spacenews.com/nasa-to-skip-r…

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Agile Tom @agiletom

5 years ago

WEF releases "#Agile Regulation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Toolkit for Regulators" weforum.org/pages/agile-re… Quote: "In one UK study, just 29% of the businesses surveyed thought that regulation enabled innovative products & services to be brought to market efficiently"

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Agile Tom @agiletom

5 years ago

Why Predictability is More Important than Speed in Agile Marketing martechtoday.com/why-predictabi… Meow: Predictability is an agile outcome. Agilists get the difference between trying & failing to be predictive via scheduling, and gaining true predictability via empirical process control