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Me after my first trip of the season to Lowes Gardening centre

Agility requires distributed decision making Distributed decision making requires trust Trust requires demonstrating ability & expertise Expertise requires continuous education & training Want agility? Heavily invest in training & educating your teams

The quality of a system, digital or otherwise, should not only be measured by its ability to function under 'normal' circumstances, but rather how well it responds to suboptimal circumstances or unexpected situations, such as sudden surges in usage.

This Micro-Acquisition Pilot - Closeout and Lessons Learned Report for aforementioned pilot at ESDC is fantastic. More reports like this please sara-sabr.github.io/ITStrategy/ma-… #gcdigital

My ~5 month old starting his life long journey into the wonders of technology Have to start him now if he's to have that 15 years of experience required for entry level IT positions👶🖥️ Current words typed per minute: -5 Gotta start somewhere!

As with all things, one size does not fit all. We dwell in the land of trade offs

A great blogpost from my colleague, One technique that I like to use to move faster is to decouple releases and deployments. They are fundamentally different activities and should be treated as such, one is updating the system, the other is the enablement of new functionality

I fell in love with serverless when I found that, thanks to autoscaling and a pay as you go model, it was perfect for both small & large organizations After listening to a podcast I learned another benefit -- more environmentally friendly open.spotify.com/episode/0YQeZN… ❤️ serverless

Stop Starting and Start Finishing! The fewer cars you have on the road, the faster they can travel. Reducing work in progress, reduces time to learning & value. This de-risks delivery, enables pivoting, and maximizes value #BVSSH

"Frameworks are a tool; not a way of life" Great quote from Clean Architecture amazon.ca/Clean-Architec… Reminds me of a line I heard from Mike Williamson (@[email protected]) once, 'fall in love with the problem, not the tool/tech' (or some such paraphrasing)

We're looking to accelerate the people, and the data at the heart of public health decision making. This is a great opportunity to make a difference on something that makes a difference.

Great blog post by Mark Schwartz aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterpri… The age old question: to centralize, or decentralize? Spoiler. The answer is to decentralize (by default)

An issue with front loading planning is that you are making the most decisions when you have the least information #agile

“Stating its ‘requirements’ is simply the business’s way of communicating with IT. But, unfortunately, the term ‘requirements’ is one that closes off discussion...” —A Seat at the Table, Chapter 5 #ASeatAtTheTable #ASeatAtTheTableBook #ReadAlong

I hacked a gaming company this year. Here's how I did it: