Ron Jeffries: Strawberries Are Best When Small. We want to know ASAP whether whatever we’re doing is good or not so good. Short cycles. And, because we’re doing software, we want to know that about our software. We want that all the time, every day from beginning on, and every moment spent where the software is not good, or we don’t know how good it is, is a bad moment. (more)

a team (esp product team) that includes people performing all the functions necessary to deliver an increment. Should also have the Agility, Context, and Team Agency to do so.

A group, esp a product team that includes all the skills/roles necessary to Gets Things Done. Whole Team (more)

GeePaw Hill agile product development principle: take Many More Much Smaller Steps (more)

GeePawHill: MMMSS - The Pin-Making Floptimization. Today we’ll take up the pin-making floptimization. (more)

GeePawHill: MMMSS - The Shortest-Distance Floptimization. The counter-case to MMMSS is supposed to be a set of optimizations — ways around the odd disorderly-seeming path forced on us by stride-limits. They are compelling, these optimizations. But false. I call them "floptimizations". (more)

GeePawHill: MMMSS - The - Intrinsic Benefit of Steps. Imagine we’re at some point on our way to a horizon goal. There’s a fork in the road and we have three paths in front of us, all of which, we believe, will take us to that goal. (more)

GeePawHill: MMMSS - Many More Much Smaller Steps - First Sketch. The first plank of my take on fixing the trade is MMMSS: If you want more value faster, take Many More Much Smaller Steps. (more)

"The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism" is a widely-cited[1] 1970 paper by economist George Akerlof which examines how the quality of goods traded in a market can degrade in the presence of information asymmetry between buyers and sellers, leaving only "lemons" behind. In American slang, a lemon is a car that is found to be defective after it has been bought. Suppose buyers cannot distinguish between a high-quality car (a "peach") and a "lemon". Then they are only willing to pay a fixed price for a car that averages the value of a "peach" and "lemon" together (pavg). But sellers know whether they hold a peach or a lemon.... Eventually, as enough sellers of "peaches" leave the market, the average willingness-to-pay of buyers will decrease (since the average quality of cars on the market decreased), leading to even more sellers of high-quality cars to leave the market through a positive feedback loop. Thus the uninformed buyer's price creates an adverse selection problem that drives the high-quality cars from the market. Adverse selection is a market mechanism that can lead to a market collapse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

Martin Cagan: The CSPO Pathology. it is no secret that the majority of product teams and product organizations in the world (“the rest”) are not strong (more)

an agile project management process that fails to be an Agile Software Development process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) (more)

Certified Scrum Product Owner -

a Scrum role

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

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: 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: 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)