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Assumptions are based on assumptions. It’s assumptions all the way down.

New blog post: "The Four Keys To Rapid Response Software Development.” growsmethod.com/articles/four_…

Why Deadlines Don’t Work growsmethod.com/2019/02/19/Dea…

Not too late to join the study hall for reading “The Fearless Organization” by Amy Edmondson. Look in the study hall category at forum.growsmethod.com

Hey! Would you like to participate in a UX study for our new website and workshop offerings? It will take one hour, and I’ll send you a signed copy of Pragmatic Thinking & Learning as thanks. Email me at [email protected], first 10 win!

The GROWs Method forum is getting ready to vote for their next read here: forum.growsmethod.com/t/shall-we-con… . Swing by, vote, and join us in 2020.

I just want to share that the book "The Pragmatic Programmer" was the book which changed my career in a very good way as a Software Engineer. Many thanks to the authors PragmaticAndy Dave Thomas . Which books changed your life as a developer?

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Rudeness and incivility lowers performance and can lead to fatal errors. OTOH, respect boosts both performance & profits. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Having problems with software development? This may explain why. There's more than edit/build/deploy!

Thinking about a "transformation" at work? Currently in the middle of one that isn't going well? Did the people involved Agree To Try? growsmethod.com/practices/Agre…

If you can't get people to Agree to Try, you need to Create Psychological Safety. Check out the pain points and assessment. growsmethod.com/practices/Crea…

If * Teams complain about the scarcity of information in their work * Dev/QA teams constantly feud over a particular requirement * Developers are told what to do, and never seem to do the right thing Remove Proxies to People growsmethod.com/practices/Remo…

Becoming an expert involves 10000 hours ... AND Repeated experience in the domain building patterns. AND a Valid Environment for learning AND Timely feedback AND Deliberate practice in your uncomfortable zone. youtube.com/watch?v=5eW6Ea… #expert #learning

Watch PragmaticAndy talk about the realities of developing software in this keynote from Agile India 2022. Hint: we're the problem ;)

Mark your calendars! We're doing a rare public workshop of our GROWS Project Simulator on 11/15. Get together with your team and see what happens when you make the right decisions, the hard decisions, and the wrong decisions. Details and sign up coming shortly.

GROWS says to remove proxies to things. A certification is a proxy for competency. It is not competency itself. It’s often not even a very good proxy, either.

Join Don Gray for live Q&A on The GROWS™ Method on Monday: crowdcast.io/e/don- gray-grows-method

Having certificates has nothing to do with being agile. At all. Nor does knowledge of Jira/Rally/VersionOne/etc.