a Scrum role

GeePaw Hill tweetstorm on software design. I was recently asked to prepare some content around the topic of software design. There are a lot of ideas out there about "good" software design and "bad", and about rules or the lack thereof. It's a rich topic, a lifetime game. (more)

Ron Jeffries: DarkScrum: Mitigating Sprint Problems. Let’s look a bit more at how we might deal with oppressive use of the Sprint in a Dark Scrum™ situation. (more)

Ron Jeffries: Strawberries 2: Increment. Rhythm. Brackets. Today’s topic, well, topics, are the Increment, Rhythm, and Brackets. They go together (more)

Ron Jeffries: Story Points Revisited. *I certainly deplore their misuse; (more)

Ron Jeffries: DarkScrum: Some valuable improvements. I don’t want to come off all negative. So let’s talk a bit about what I’d like to see done (more)

Ron Jeffries: Dark Scrum: The Case Against the Sprint. We’ve already talked about the fact that Sprints are not necessary to teams who are working well: pulling one story, and swarming on it, then another and another, works better, my friends and I believe, than Sprints. (There are good reasons to continue a regular cadence of planning, and certainly of review and retrospection.) But that’s not much of a case. What else ya got? (more)

Ron Jeffries: Strawberries 4: Big Tasty Bites. GeePaw Hill is workin on an idea. I urged him to publish his thoughts ((2022-01-16) Geepaw Hill Software Design Triplet) I believe that Hill is zeroing in on some important Strawberries. (more)

Ron Jeffries: Jam Session. One of our members, who shall by the group’s convention remain nameless, began the evening with a bit of a rant regarding Jerry Weinberg’s Law of Raspberry Jam: “The wider you spread it, the thinner it gets”. (more)

Ron Jeffries: Strawberries 3: Simple Design. Among the eminent Kent Beck’s many contributions are his four rules of simple design. My preferred formulation is this one: (more)

Ron Jeffries: Strawberries 5: Strawberry Pie. Of all the mistakes I’ve made in software product development over six decades, the most damaging was not having working software available to ship before the patience of “the big guys” ran out. (more)

Gordon Brander: All you need is links. When Tim Berners Lee talks about how he designed the web, he uses an analogy from physics, describing his process as a quest to find “fundamental laws” which can generate a desired system: "The art was to define the few basic, common rules of “protocol” that would allow one computer to talk to another, in such a way that when all computers everywhere did it, the system would thrive, no break down.: (more)

Ron Jeffries: A Scrum Rant. A Twitter exchange yesterday and today has given me today’s topic. The Twitter exchange was with Ryan Ripley, with whom I am nearly in agreement. (more)

Ron Jeffries: The Agile Expanse. Scrum, LeSS, SAFe, … It’s all bullshit. There shouldn’t be any methods.* (branding) (more)

Ron Jeffries: Certifiers Gonna Cert. ...who the customers of the Scrum Alliance are... The Scrum Alliance receives essentially all of its revenue from selling certifications, most of them CSM (ScrumMaster) certifications....the bulk of the fees for the courses are paid by the would-be certificant’s company. (enterprise) (more)

Progressive? Or Authoritarian enforcement of SmallWorld? (more)

Neal Stephenson book ISBN:9780061474095 (more)

Could refer to a Daemon/Robot that interacts with a Real Time Instant Messaging space (more)

Like social media, but higher emphasis on deeper interaction (Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts) (more)

Book of life. LifeBox (more)