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Quote: prove to the outside world who I am

Well, you see. I see myself as someone who <why>. And so it's very important for me to surround myself with all the people and the products and the brands to prove to the outside world who I am. Because I am using these things to tell people who I am. In an attempt to attract people who believe what I believe. So that I can start to form strong bonds of trust....

January 19, 2021

Quote: trust emerges when not driven by self-interest

Trust begins to emerge when we have a sense that another person or organisation is driven by things other than their own self-gain. (src: Book_ Start With Why - Simon Sinek p84 )

January 19, 2021

Quote: we form trust when we share values and beliefs

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

January 19, 2021

Quote: when people take personal risk

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)

January 19, 2021

Quote: win for themselves

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

January 18, 2021

Quote: work hard for themselves

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)

January 18, 2021

Model: Conway's law

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)

January 15, 2021

Opinion: we should stop 'big bang' company restructuring

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....

January 15, 2021

Opinion: Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) scales the wrong way

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....

January 14, 2021

Video: Quality is not an act, it’s a habit - Thoughtworks

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...

January 14, 2021