Video: SWARMing: Scaling Without A Religious Methodology - Katherine Kirk & Dan North

SWARMing: Scaling Without A Religious Methodology - Katherine Kirk & Dan North (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q87wNNiygaM)

lead time: time between ‘I have a need’ and ’thank you’

…oh crap… I’ll wait till you get back to me

“we need to do the method better!” “we need to do it more!”

2 simple concepts trigger leadership and help go from large to small scale delivery

aka 3 characteristics of context

what if we work with the model? dissatisfaction as feedback for learning

""" What’s happening, that these elements are going wrong? we need to do the method better? we need to do it more? """

degradation: dysfunction: eg. body illness expiry

any method: will degrade and expire

things we need things we do

education: eg. don rinontsen’s product development flow is really hard ; safe is intro to how flow works practice time: 3-5 years investment influence: access to ppl who can change structure, privilege communications: external help leadership: - consistent: if you rotate CTO every x months, don’t bother - invested: not a side project - resilient: up and down the org

[ ] don rinontsen’s product development flow

assume positive intent pathological behaior is from the system ToC: you can’t know the next one, until this one is done

see what is there

1. vidualize: value stream mapping - work, queue, blockers, dependency, interdepency
2. stabilize, even if it’s bad, as long as it’s consistent
3. optimize

based on data, learn

there is no “The Answer” start with a method, but expect degradation

you’ll tire out

with degradation, change

There is hope: “we can understand the universe, we just can’t beat it”