Food for Agile Thought #192: Ditch Scrum? Friday Deploy Freezes, Boing 737 MAX 8, Issues w/ Northstar Metrics
Stefan Wolpers
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Food for Agile Thought’s issue #192 asks: Should your organization ditch Scrum? Moreover, we address Friday deploy freezes and how systems thinking can help to overcome agile anti-patterns.
We also reveal issues w/ Northstar metrics; we analyze innovation in the era of the learning organization, and we delve into the Boing 737 MAX 8 disaster.
Lastly, we thank Peter Gfader for speaking out loud in support of physical boards and index cards. Finally! ??
Did you miss last week’s Food for Agile Thought’s issue #191?
?? The Essential Read
Charity Majors: Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies
Charity Majors reflects on why Friday freezes are no longer seen as a badge of responsibility and honor but rather a source of mild embarrassment.
Source: Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies
Author: Charity Majors
Agile & Ditch Scrum?
Peter Gfader: Cage Fight: Electronic VS Physical Boards
Peter Gfader points at the utility of ‘big-ass-boards’ to track work and visualize stuff.
Source: Cage Fight: Electronic VS Physical Boards
Author: Peter Gfader
Jurgen De Smet (via AgileByExample): ABE light 2019: Why Should Most Organisations Ditch Scrum!
Jurgen De Smet helps you evaluate if your organization should ditch Scrum or not.
Source: AgileByExample: ABE light 2019: Why Should Most Organisations Ditch Scrum!
Author: Jurgen De Smet
(via InfoQ): Agile Anti-Patterns: A Systems Thinking Approach
David Johnston advocates using systems thinking to classify problems w/ agile transitions and identify their solutions.
Source: InfoQ: Agile Anti-Patterns: A Systems Thinking Approach
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Product & Lean
Vince Law (via Medium): WTF is Your Metric Doing to Your Customers?
Vince Law analyzes how to avoid the unintended consequences of the one metric that rules them all — your Northstar metric.
Source: Medium: WTF is Your Metric Doing to Your Customers?
Author: Vince Law
Harold Jarche: What is innovation?
Harold Jarche puts his core observations about innovation together into a cohesive narrative.
Source: What is innovation?
Author: Harold Jarche
Robin Dymond: Boeing 737 MAX 8: Would Agile Foundations Have Prevented Such Fatal Flaws?
Did Boeing’s development of the 737 MAX 8 avoid Agile principles? Robin Dymond believes so.
Source: Boeing 737 MAX 8: Would Agile Foundations Have Prevented Such Fatal Flaws?
Author: Robin Dymond
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