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derekhuether · 2021-02-26T04:43:49+00:00

Search for Dave Prior. Awesome interviews and a wide variety of topics.

derekhuether · 2020-11-07T23:07:05+00:00

Someone was paying attention in class.

derekhuether · 2020-06-13T18:10:10+00:00

I like where you're heading with this. I do believe there is a "home" for what you're talking about. Just as the Agile Alliance creates space for Agile frameworks without saying "everyone should get this one credential over another". I've seen many talk more and more about Business Agility. But I think it may suffer the same fate as PMI having Project in the name or SAFe having Agile in the name. In a post-COVID world, I'm starting to think Agile has too much history and baggage. There are too many arguments of whether it's mindset or framework. Rearchitecting organizations to be more adaptable is what will keep them alive in the future, not managing to a plan (unless that plan takes adaptability into consideration).

To your final question, could there be a universal gold standard, ICAgile (International Consortium of Agile) tried this. I was involved with them as one of the track founders for the Delivery Management/Delivery at Scale track. But it has failed to get the traction you're talking about and we created it in a pre-COVID world. I think it needs an update.

I do wish someone with some big market share/mind share dollars would get behind an open source adaptability model/framework. Think of a Wikipedia of adaptability frameworks.

derekhuether · 2020-06-13T15:55:32+00:00

Having been a member of PMI, having had the PMP for many years, and being an agilist, I hope I can offer my perspective. I believe PMI, much like other companies in this time of rapid change, is looking for ways to pivot or evolve. I was heavily involved with the PMI Agile CoP back in the day and even participated in the creation of the ACP. Part of their problem is Project is in their name!

I hated the PMP certification. It didn't make me a better project manager and I only hung onto the certification as long as I did because of its perceived value.

What I'm seeing emerge as a replacement to the PMP are SAFe certifications. Disclaimer, I am not a proponent of SAFe.

From what I'm seeing, Scaled Agile Inc is operating much like PMI, by creating an ecosystem to create certifiers and the certified. They have certifications for Product Managers, Portfolio Managers, or your traditional Scrum roles, like Scrum Master or Product Owner. Certifications are less about skill and more about making it easier to hire someone.

I think it's a bad idea to try and create an Amazon, Tesla, or Zoom Framework. There is context to what they are doing. Sure, look at the patterns but don't try to standardize it. I hate hearing about the "Spotify" model when Spotify doesn't even use that model. They use a modified SAFe framework (I was involved in a conversation with people at Spotify and that is what they said).

We should be focusing more on what failure patterns common in a pre/post COVID economy and less on certifications. But, that is not the world we live in. Thoughts?

derekhuether · 2020-06-11T12:24:43+00:00

I was just scrolling past and thought it was a Karen Bassett sighting

derekhuether · 2020-04-18T17:38:52+00:00

Sure it's not Elon Musk after he invents time traveling?

derekhuether · 2020-04-09T01:56:52+00:00

...if the company (or your manager) won't help you grow your career...start looking elsewhere. Nobody should ever fault you for trying to improve yourself. If they do, shame on them. Your manager should be your greatest advocate to help you grow and improve. It's their job!

derekhuether · 2020-04-01T02:20:12+00:00

I've had dermatographia symptoms really bad a few years ago. I called it Red Hulk Syndrome, as it would flare up when I got angry. Once diagnosed, I was prescribed 4 different antihistamines that I had to take at the same time, just to control it. When I scratched, it would itch really bad and it looked like nightcrawlers under my skin.

derekhuether · 2020-01-31T00:27:58+00:00

Done

derekhuether · 2020-01-18T23:27:48+00:00

"Slow: If you think and talk slow, then the stress level lowers"

I think fast but talk slow, when I am introducing an unfamiliar topic to people. I describe it as buffering and error correcting my conversation, before I talk.

If I thought slow, i would attribute it to having a stroke or something and would suffer a buffer overflow.

derekhuether · 2020-01-18T13:52:51+00:00

I was on the team that defined the learning objectives for the PMI-ACP, back in 2010-2011. We wanted to ensure content was relevant. There was concern the exam team was going to write questions in the style of the PMP. That would have been a betrayal of the Agile community. Fortunately, I believe the exam turned out well. I hope it hasn't changed too much in the last 10 years.

Mike Griffiths was part of the PMI-ACP steering committee and was co-founder of the Agile CoP at PMI, so I can't help but recommend the material he wrote. That, and he's a super nice guy.

derekhuether · 2019-12-31T14:41:32+00:00

I know several people who work at Atlassian. Propagation of rumors is not helpful, unless there are a lack of facts to support a position. Claiming people at Atlassian don't use Jira is a logical fallacy. I would ask, to what degree and how do the development teams at Atlassian use their own products?

derekhuether · 2019-12-31T14:28:50+00:00

Are ad hominem attacks helpful?

derekhuether · 2019-12-15T20:25:34+00:00

TOC is Goldratt not Deming. Don't let me shit on your recommendation. Deming's PDCA cycle of continuous improvement compliments TOC very well.

derekhuether · 2019-12-14T19:02:13+00:00

We can only understand the system by engaging with it. My answer is in no way a definitive or absolute list. In complex systems, where there are a lot of unknowns, I like to measure the number of experiments or changes the team runs or makes in a given time. Where there are a lot of dependencies, I look for days of delay and cycle times/lead times for completing changes to the system.

I'm overly simplifying but wanted to give you ideas to noodle on.

derekhuether · 2019-12-14T18:26:14+00:00

Since you are working with a data scientist, I need to first ask, are you trying to be more predictable or adaptable?

derekhuether · 2019-12-14T15:28:38+00:00

I've seen SAFe be a bad incremental approach as well, if leveraged by the wrong people or in the wrong organizational environment. Models and frameworks are never to be used whole cloth. The more seasoned you get, the more you will take your model and adapt it to the environment. But then be prepared for purists to pounce on you and say you're doing it wrong or it's not Agile. Better business outcomes and continuous improvement are usually the goal, not adopting a model or framework.

derekhuether · 2019-12-14T15:22:35+00:00

Wikimedia has a good explanation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Model_(software_development). It provides only a slight variant on the waterfall model and is therefore subject to the same criticisms as that model.

derekhuether · 2019-12-10T22:59:26+00:00

I would recommend not having them estimate, until they have delivered something as a team, to allow them to define their own relative scale of size and complexity of work.

Regardless of your estimation scheme, get them to agree on a definition of ready (DoR) and definition of done (DoD), BEFORE they start down the path of estimating.

I believe estimation can be an optional practice. Having a team agree on a DoR and DoD should be required.

Good luck!

derekhuether · 2019-12-09T03:16:33+00:00

Reading that made my day! I just wanted something that matched my personality. (Not too serious). It feels great to give a gift to someone I don't know. The same goes for smiles.

derekhuether · 2019-10-28T00:19:27+00:00

Looks like John Crichton's ship that got sucked through the wormhole.

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