Em Wag retweeted
22 Aug 2021
Bad managers think leadership is about power, good managers think leadership is about competently serving their team
#Management #Development #Leadership #DevManagers #DevLeaders
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Em Wag retweeted
Do you have users who are excited about logging in? They brag about how they logged in to their friends. They feel a sense of achievement because they've logged in!
No.
No value == not a story.
I'm going to beat this horse until it sinks in. Workflow steps are NOT stories.
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Em Wag retweeted
12 Jun 2021
How technology managers are falling short on projects and why it’s their fault and not the developer.
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Em Wag retweeted
23 Mar 2021
There's never enough time upfront. There never will be.
In any system that's larger than one or two human beings' memories, you can't have that perfect, clairvoyant, comprehensive, ideal software document.
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Em Wag retweeted
Project Lead is not a role in Scrum. That’s not an inadvertent omission. Teams that are treated as children will never become real self-managing Agile (or Scrum) teams. 4/4
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Em Wag retweeted
19 May 2021
The biggest problem with scrum, and this is almost universal, is that the people who have been doing “scrum” for years have never ever seen scrum done, and have never read the rules of scrum, and frankly don’t understand any of it.
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Em Wag retweeted
Start with the smallest possible thing you can build that barely meets a single need of a handful of users. Build that. Release it. Have a conversation and get feedback. Using that feedback, make a single small modification and release again. Repeat until the users are happy.
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On Scrum and SAFe and every other process that’s trotted out the "easy to learn, difficult to master" chestnut.
That's like saying a hammer is easy to use but difficult to master. No a hammer is relatively easy to master as I learned one summer helping a friend build a house. But building a house is difficult to master. 5/5
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lol, I mean how does this come off as anything but a blatant money grab? Buy PRO to skip updates? Did Microsoft buy docker?
Em Wag retweeted
(And please don’t trot out that "design is necessary" chestnut. Sure it is, but that doesn’t mean you need to do it up front. Design incrementally as you learn.)
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Em Wag retweeted
21 Apr 2021
It’s all very, very simple. If I improve my tools/skills/knowledge, I’m faster next sprint. If I work harder, I’m no faster next sprint. – Tim Ottinger
#agile
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