As a programmer, my entire life has been spent getting paid a lot of money to do things I would do for free anyway and hoping no one figures it out.

I don't know that you can have an agile team in an in-agile org. The best case is that you'll waste vast amounts of time-fighting to do basic things. Of course, any team can adopt some of the tools in the Agile toolkit (e.g., TDD, mobbing), and those will help you be more

This is what I mean when I tell people “I don’t get hired to teach you how to be a big company. I get hired to remind you to operate like a startup.” Yes, I hire talented leaders and strong managers. But I also: - Read all the product docs, comment on all the designs - Review

Single best description of AI I’ve ever read, from the great Ted Chiang.

Listening to RDML Hopper from 42 years ago is not much different than listening to Uncle Bob Martin, Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social, or Kevlin Henney today youtube.com/watch?v=_bP14O…

Signal President Says #GenerativeAI Is 'Definitely a Bubble' "You cannot spend a billion dollars per training run when you need to do multiple training runs and then launch a fucking email-writing engine. Something is wrong there." ~ Meredith Whittaker buff.ly/47c9cIN

So, central to the entire viability of Scrum is the notion that the SM coaches *outward* to the rest of the organization. That way, an Agile (we hope) team can infuse what it does to the whole organization and effect org-level changes. I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS HAPPEN! The SM is

Here's Neil Killick's response from over on LinkedIn. Couldn't have said it better myself. When the whole org is marching in lockstep to Scrum, there's no Agile there.

(📣) The President of Brazil has issued a statement about Twitter: “The world isn’t obliged to put up with Elon Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich.” RETWEET if you agree. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Gall's Law is an essential observation about systems (not just software systems, but organizational ones as well, and it applies recursively). It states: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition

"While gen AI can help with a limited number of tasks, it does not merit a multi-trillion-dollar re-evaluation of the nature of humanity...I believe we have already invested far more in LLMs — in terms of time, money, human effort, energy and breathless anticipation — than we

I've an interesting looking-for-emergent-behavior puzzle in Google Docs, and maybe one of you can suggest an approach. I have an outline (one item per line) where I want to attach notes to the line items, but I want those notes to toggle on and off on demand (ideally, all of them

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Does anybody know of a good break-long-post-into-chunks app that works with Bluesky? If it will crosspost (without breaking up the post) to Twitter and LinkedIn, that's icing! And yes, I fully understand the irony of asking for a Bluesky-support application on Twitter 😄. I'm

From a LinkedIn post on keeping up morale on a remote team [t.ly/KQMz5]. I think this advice is appallingly bad—hellish extrovert thinking imposed on unwilling introverts. Most developers I know would run in terror. You cannot "bond" people artificially by making

There's a circle of hell reserved for the creators of websites that don't support an authenticator app for the 2FA logins. It can take 5 minutes or more to log in if you use txt or email, depending on _your_ txt/email servers as well as mine. Sites that only support an email

Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social There are two things that consistently show generate cohesion within a team: - Shared goals - Interdependent skillsets What that means is give the group a challenge that requires multiple skills to accomplish. Lucky for us, that's literally every user story we have. Mobbing just