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When we share values and beliefs with others, we form trust. (src: Book_ Start With Why - Simon Sinek p88 )

only when individuals can trust the culture or organisation will they take personal risks in order to advance that culture or organisation as a whole. For no other reason than, in the end, it's good for their own personal health and survival. (Book_ Start With Why - Simon Sinek p104)

For the success to last the employees [...] had to want to win for themselves (src: Book_ Start With Why - Simon Sinek p87)

When employees belong, they will guarantee your success. And they won't be working hard and looking for innovative solutions for you, they will do it for themselves. (src: Book_ Start With Why - Simon Sinek p93)

Conway’s law is an adage stating that organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure. “Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.” -- Melvin E. Conway (src: Wikipedia)

There is certainly benefit in re-structuring an organisation. Model_ Conway’s law mentions communication structures in organisations define the resulting architecture of their software Model_ Agile Fluency requires it to reach the third zone “optimizing” So we may want to restructure organisations. But does it have to be “all at once”? “This is the organisation structure we’d like to have.” “After a lot of hard work, we’ve filled in all the boxes with names....

Model_ Agile Fluency = ‘scale out’, making value streams smaller, until they fit into one team. Model_ Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) = ‘scale up’, adding more people to the same value stream. In Model_ Agile Fluency the distinction is clearly visible when we look through the lens of team composition. Model_ Agile Fluency is scaling out. It creates small teams that are self-sufficient. Slicing the value stream smaller where needed. Changing the organisation’s structure....

https://www.meetup.com/ThoughtWorks_Koeln/events/275248029/ Presentation by Jo Will Shalini Saini Table of Contents What is quality (in)famous bugs building quality in waterfall agile tester -> QA practices test pyramid TDD pair programming cross-functional requirements diversity and inclusion -– 1996 - 2008 6 months of testing phase what went wrong? during testing phase - ignored practical cases (manual intervention breaks the process) - load test under actual demand big bang launch...

When you are in an emotional state, your mind creates corresponding thoughts. When you feel angry, you will seek out things that seem ‘reasonable excuses’ to feel angry. When you are happy, you will seek out things that seem ‘reasonable excuses’ to feel happy. I imagine it like this: The entire world is in grey except for things that trigger your emotion. (Isderion, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons)...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zu9mmrsg2Xo How do you know if your why is something you can lead with? (5:45) If you ever made a friend, you know Whys are compatible Tribal connection Not all other people What if you’re not in a position of authority, but you can clearly see the why? (7:10) Organisations are started with a why. Often not articulated. Leaders / entrepreneurs falsely believe the why is clear to everyone. Are we changing the way we try to fit or belong to a group in this covid period?...