When Henrik Kniberg gave their AI agent the ability to update his instructions and keep a diary he found that providing room for more intelligence to AI agents leads to less predictable behavior, including what [appear to be] "judgment calls". Cc: AgileGreeceOrg

Preceding agile software development is often a waterfall process: Strategy → Roadmap → Project, says Itamar Gilad ar AgileGreeceOrg Better Ways. Better to support the involved human judgment with evidence. His proposed GIST framework splits that into Goals Ideas Steps Tasks.

"Use delivered value as a North Star metric for your goals, e.g. sent messages, minutes watched, nights booked, gross mechandise value, weekly learning users." — Itamar Gilad AgileGreeceOrg

“Because only 10–30% of your ideas will be wrong you have to come up with many, find ways to easily evaluate them, validate them, and delivering them while throwing away the bad ones, quickly, objectively, and transparently.” — Itamar Gilad AgileGreeceOrg

“Confidence in product ideas rises from self-conviction, pitch deck, thematic support (fashion), others' opinions, estimates and plans, anecdotal evidence, market data, user/customer evidence, test results, launch data.” — Itamar Gilad Better Ways (Agile Greece Summit)

“Judge your product ideas through the measures of their estimated impact, confidence in them, and ease of their implementation.” — Itamar Gilad Better Ways (Agile Greece Summit)

Nice metaphor by Michael Feathers talking Better Ways (Agile Greece Summit) regarding code health and Conway's law. Just as a disorderly room is a sign of a party that has taken place there, so code can tell you a lot regarding the teams that have worked on it.

“RIDE framework for bringing about change, e.g. for reorganizing teams, adopting a new tool: who Recommends it, who provides Input, who gets to Decide, and who will Execute it” — Heidi Helfand Better Ways (Agile Greece Summit)

Through a series of actual A/B test screens from Microsoft Joakim Sundén demonstrated at Better Ways (Agile Greece Summit) that determining the best designs without experimental data is a hopeless exercise: audience members were most of the time wrong in their guesses.

Extraordinary AI panel at Better Ways (Agile Greece Summit) Henrik Kniberg Michael Feathers and Diomidis Spinellis. Thank you for introducing us to this new world! #betterways2024

Impressive! Almost half of the participants Better Ways (Agile Greece Summit) raised their hands when asked if they suffer from the Tsundoku (積ん読) syndrome: the phenomenon of acquiring books but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them.

Twenty years after we reported how the lawful interception capabilities of Vodafone's Ericsson exchanges were targeted to setup illegal wiretaps on top government officials, history repeats itself. spectrum.ieee.org/the-athens-aff…

I calculated and uploaded to Zenodo a dataset containing the five-year consolidation / disruption index (CD₅) for 44 million works published in the period 1945–2018. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… Details on the process will appear in an IEEE Software Adventures in Code article.

In the beginning of 2023 I expressed my fear that AI would deforest the knowledge’s ecosystem spinellis.gr/blog/20230316/. Now a PNAS Nexus paper shows that large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms (StackOverflow) doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

Unix make vs Apache Airflow spinellis.gr/blog/20241015/

WordPress's recent ban of WP Engine from its plugin server is making front page news in the Financial Times. Story's moral: know and limit your software dependencies and understand their supply chain risks. ft.com/content/0b8c43…