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lukadotnet

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Complexity, Lean, Agile/XP practitioner.
Ex-Ferrari F1 racing team. Ex-ThoughtWorks
Change Agent for hire.
Public speaker. Author.
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matthewskelton, to random
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"But how does it scale?" is a common question for organizational transformation initiatives. The answer is that it scales primarily via enthusiasm and learning, not via structure or framework.

Example:

Let's say the required outcome is to move 100 people over 10 kilometers. Do you:

  1. Build a juggernaut that fits 100 people 🚚 - the "framework" approach
  2. Organize a 10km fun run and train people up 🏃 - the nimble, humane approach

The 10km run is the way

lukadotnet,
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@matthewskelton That is not a question, but an obsession with size. A typical male problem ...

You do not scale it, you nurture it and allow it to grow.

You will start by planting a seed and ensuring it will bloom, or it won't even have a chance.

lukadotnet, to random
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How to succeed over difficult problems?

This interview covers my formative experience during the personal computers and internet revolution in navigating uncharted waters, and unfamiliar, unexplored territories like we are doing again with Artificial Intelligence right now.

The interview also introduces the micro-guide to Complexity-thinking as a fundamental tool for the challenge => https://youtu.be/Mb9wrBtu7XI?si=4ysSoJyv1Rrar6tV

/cc @leanpub

#ComplexityThinking
#Complexity
#SystemsThinking
#Agility
#Leadership

matthewskelton, to random
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Is the main purpose of your organisation actually Exec enrichment or truly customer success?

Because the behaviour of many orgs suggests that Exec enrichment is the real purpose.

🐉💰

lukadotnet,
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@matthewskelton

  • Stakeholder capitalism (add value to all the stakeholders, then everything becomes a priority)

  • Shareholder capitalism (making money is all that matters, ignore consequences, avoid change)

  • Customer capitalism (add value to the customers first, adapt to changing needs)

Some ideas from Steve Denning

lukadotnet,
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@rvr

To your point Steve Denning notes that the idea of Stakeholder capitalism emerged during the twentieth century and has risen recently (BRT since 2019, Davos Manifesto 2020) to deal with some of the problems of Shareholders capitalism and to keep balancing conflicting claims among stakeholders (where everything is a priority and stakeholders fight in the budget game).

Unsurprisingly it never worked

@matthewskelton

matthewskelton, to random
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⚠️ Don't try to "install" Team Topologies. Developing new capabilities and awareness takes time and practice. It's iterative.

lukadotnet,
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@matthewskelton language plays an important role in attracting practitioners looking for an installation vs an adoption.

Early XP/Agile was intentionally incomplete expecting practitioners to adapt, evolve, reinvent and invent.

The early Agile community invested in the concept of community described, collected and curated evolving repositories of emerging patterns.

XP tech practices approached different potentially alternative practices as pros/cons based on context instead of silver bullets.

lukadotnet, to random
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I'm speaking at FlowCon France in Paris 6-7 March, on how to make Accountability & Commitment work when creating Complex products & services. This is my session => https://flowcon2024.sched.com/event/1XmqU/should-we-retire-accountability-commitment-and-find-a-better-alternative

It is informed by Complexity-thinking and Promise Theory (for how distributed agents offer and consume services making and keeping or not promises).



lukadotnet,
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At the conference https://www.flowcon.io/ you'll also meet @ziobrando (DDD, ES) and @suksr (human orgs based on DDD, @TeamTopologies , and Wardley's maps), only @matthewskelton (TT) seems missing.
I see interesting hallway conversations coming.

#Conference #Paris #FlowCon #Accountabity #Commitment
#IronTriangle #Complexity #PromiseTheory
#ModernProductManagement

lukadotnet, to random
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GOOD NEWS, BAD/FAKE AGILE IS SHRINKING, MAKING SPACE FOR GOOD AGILE

The new 17th State of Agile Report for 2023 (*) shows a collapse of SAFe market share and, more generally, a decline of all scaled, allegedly Agile, frameworks and other canned recipes. And a growth in not mandating one framework.

This is congruent with flaws/failures of scalded recipes:

lukadotnet, to random
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Instead of a New Year's resolution, this is an old-year retrospective.

In the past year:

  • I have not created another scaled, allegedly agile, framework or any proprietary silver bullet

  • I have not created a new certification

  • I have not affiliated myself with any certifying body

  • I have not added a certification to my LinkedIn profile headline

  • I have not chosen self-promotion over open community contributions.

And not because I could not, but because I have chosen to.

lukadotnet, to random Italian
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Dopo un lungo lavoro da Agosto, ecco pubblicata la 1ma edizione del mio nuovo libro ❤️ 'Domina i problemi difficili abbracciando il Complexity-Thinking' 🎉 🥂 🎉 🥂 => https://leanpub.com/risolviproblemidifficiliabbracciandoilcomplexity-thinking/

Grazie alle prefazioni di Paolo Aversa e Marco Fainello e per le interviste e i consigli di praticanti illustri: Sunil Mundra, Daniel Mezick, Sonja Blignaut, Chris Matts, John Coleman, Valerie McLean, Tiani Jones, e Carol Mase.

lukadotnet,
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REMINDER Domani Merc 31 Gen ore 18:00 il Meetup gratutito online sul tema => https://www.meetup.com/scrum-agile-milano-sam/events/298067973/

Evento promosso con il supporto di PMI Southern Italy - https://www.pmi-sic.org/eventi/complexity-thinking-quello-che-ancora-manca-alla-tua-organizzazione/

lukadotnet,
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L'evento ha avuto luogo. IL VIDEO molto bello => https://youtu.be/w4niIoI2QHw?si=vlmfUj34nKJWDRYM

IL LIBRO include la lista di podcast/video/blobs/bibliobrafia di esperti della complessitá, prefazioni & interviste di practitioner famosi che non vuoi perdere => https://leanpub.com/risolviproblemidifficiliabbracciandoilcomplexity-thinking/

lukadotnet,
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@AAMfP mi fa piacere la cosa ti interesssava. Ho riguardato il video a x1.5 e ti confesso mi è piaciuto pure rivederlo 🙂

Per eventuali domande ti perdi la saggezza degli altri partecipanti come Marco Fainello in primis, ma posso provare a risponderti io qui in caso

lukadotnet, to random
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<< The funny thing about being wrong ... is that right up until you realize it, it feels exactly the same as being right >> — Hunter Fox

lukadotnet, to random
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Ever wondered when/how to effectively move a task/responsibility outside the team? To a Global/shared Function, a Subject Matter Expert, an external contractor, an Agency, a Team Topologies’ Platform team or a Complicated subsystem team.

Here are some thoughts => https://www.smharter.com/blog/2024/01/01/when-how-to-move-effectively-tasks-responsibilities-outside-the-team/

What is your experience? When did it work well for you? When it did not?

lukadotnet,
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Do you have a UX team? A DevOps team? A Platform team? A last-mile UAT team? A Release team? A Support team? Do they work as a boost or a bottleneck for you?

This is an exploration of when/how they are beneficial

#DevOps #PlatformEngineering #ReleaseEngineering #Outsourcing

lukadotnet,
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@AAMfP do you know what makes your platform team so inefficient? what was the original intent when it was formed?

Do you find your experience congruent with the reasoning and guidelines emerging from this post ? => https://www.smharter.com/blog/2024/01/01/when-how-to-move-effectively-tasks-responsibilities-outside-the-team/

lukadotnet,
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@AAMfP
> but I'd give them time to
> improve.

I find it hard to get a platform team right and I don't see it as an end-state (new things may be moved to the platform team and things they already take care of may face sudden fast evolutions that require them to be moved back to a team for a while, etc)

So instead of the "it will get worse before it gets better" for a platform team I would look for “First, make the change easy, then make the easy change” so that it never hurts or gets worse

lukadotnet,
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@AAMfP
good idea.

would help if in the meanwhile the ownership and responsibilities are shared between the platform team and the client teams?
So that client teams will have the autonomy to go ahead without being blocked by the platform team and the platform team will have the time and capacity to set things up?

lukadotnet, to AncientHistory
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Here is the draft of a list of historical events (past articles, papers, books, posts, conference topics) from before 1990 up to our days.

The list tries to picture the Agile origins and its original essence. Especially for those who got into Agile in 2010 or later (feel free to share the list with them).

But if you were there earlier, comment on the doc and improve the list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10YZt7Tv_03r0xDcvRCNApzPfkYg57dLVhv-dt16KyQM/edit?usp=sharing

#Agile #Archeology #History

lukadotnet,
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@AAMfP given that adding too many items to the list will obscure its content, don't you think that startign from teh towyota way the reader may then find the yoyota kata books too wihtout mentioning it?

or should bey be mentioned too?

thoughts on balancy list readablility with completness for this case?

lukadotnet,
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@AAMfP I thik I can mention them explicitly as relevant pubblications following the toyota way (in the comments below that item). would that make sense?

lukadotnet,
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@AAMfP I have just added the mention, thanks !

lukadotnet, to random
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To me, the Hexagonal architecture together with Design Patterns, TDD + continuous refactoring + emergent design, Mock Objects + IoC + DI, and legacy codebases refactoring techniques, was the 1st minimal complete set of sw design thinking tools & techniques to effectively grow high-quality reliable OO code and systems that are easy to understand, modify, extend, and evolve.

Was it the same for you? Or?

lukadotnet, to random
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Which certification factories (*) do you see out there?

(*) commercial organisations whose purpose has become to sustain the primary income source of certified trainers who would not otherwise sell training classes without the certification. And whose primary purpose has shifted away from knowledge sharing, fulfilling education and learning needs of its professional community and and doing good by it

#Agile #Kanban #ScaledAgile #Lean #BusinessAgility

lukadotnet,
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@scrumschau that's one. Are there others or is it really the only one?

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