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Model: Dunbar's number - 5, 15, 50, 150

Humans can only manage about 150 relationships Even online (src: Video_ Start With Why - Simon Sinek) inner circle 3-5 very close friends or family members sympathy group 7-10 close friends who care about each other’s fate hunting group 30-50 collegues who care about each other’s fate-how much it takes to achieve a goal clan 100-150 people who maintain stable inter-personal relationships-everybody knows eachother-peer pressure works tribe 500-2500 people who speak the same language or dialect (src: [[video-the-scaling-dilemma-mary-poppendieck....

September 5, 2022

Video: It's not about software anymore - Mary Poppendieck

March, black swan picture taken Call to action: work & school from home by the end of the week [ ] Article: Why your company isn’t profiting from remote productivity create connection between efforts and customer value Hawthorne effect: measuring something ups the numbers for a while because of the attention proxies -> maybe / maybe not? metrics between customer and team direct connection -> see lack of satisfaction...

December 15, 2020

Model: Are you doing Continuous Delivery?

(src: Video_ The Scaling Dilemma - Mary Poppendieck)

July 1, 2019

Model: How to poke your codebase?

how to get it stable? where it’s actually in production How to poke your code base? Book_ Continuous Delivery - Jez Humble, David Farley split deployment vs release with feature toggles (src: Video_ The Scaling Dilemma - Mary Poppendieck)

July 1, 2019

Model: Ideal Team Size - 7+-2 for agile teams

What is the ideal team size? Agile answer is 7+-2 Model_ Dunbar’s number go modular remove dependencies - also in codebase That’s how many it takes to bring a project like this to the market. Book_ Creativity, Inc. - Ed Catmull how Pixar managed to have great teamwork in big team ~200 When you get bigger than 7+-2 you still wanna have one team maybe multiple sub-teams but only 1 team goal nobody succeeds unless that one succeeds...

July 1, 2019

Model: Product vs Project Mindset

Book_ INSPIRED - Marty Cagan (src: Video_ The Scaling Dilemma - Mary Poppendieck)

July 1, 2019

Model: Situational Awareness (aka jidoka)

Situational Awareness Book_ This is LEAN - Niklas Modig & Par Ahlstrom everybody on the team maintains situational awareness (src: Video_ The Scaling Dilemma - Mary Poppendieck) (origin: Book_ This is LEAN - Niklas Modig & Par Ahlstrom) Jidoka Chapter 5 automation with a human touch The loom had a function that was unique at the time: textile production stopped automatically when a thread broke. This made it immediately possible to identify, analyze, and eliminate the problem that had arisen....

July 1, 2019

Quote: Annoyed workers

When workers are annoyed by their job: """ This concept that relentless improvement means the structures are in place the management is in place encouragement is in place the leadership is in place so that when people are annoyed by something in their job, their boss’s job is to help them fix it, not live with it, not ‘well, sorry that’s regulations’ but ‘okay, how about we figure out what the real problem is, maybe that’s not the problem let’s get at the root cause’ ‘how about you come up with an idea about what might make it better’ ‘Maybe we could do some experiments to figure out whether or not that really makes it better’ that’s the job of a manager in an organisation that has Cathedral builders, and really can do constant improvement all the time for decades on end """...

July 1, 2019

Model: Cathedral builders

Book_ Maverick - Ricardo Semler Book_ The Seven-Day Weekend - Ricardo Semler Quote_ Annoyed workers """ This concept that relentless improvement means the structures are in place the management is in place encouragement is in place the leadership is in place so that when people are annoyed by something in their job, their boss’s job is to help them fix it, not live with it, not ‘well, sorry that’s regulations’ but ‘okay, how about we figure out what the real problem is, maybe that’s not the problem let’s get at the root cause’ ‘how about you come up with an idea about what might make it better’ ‘Maybe we could do some experiments to figure out whether or not that really makes it better’ that’s the job of a manager in an organisation that has Cathedral builders, and really can do constant improvement all the time for decades on end """...

June 30, 2019

Model: Mindful Organisation

Model_ Mindful Organisation Book: Managing the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity - Weick and Sutcliffe (src: Video_ The role of leadership in software development - Mary Poppendieck)

June 30, 2019