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“Who are our customers?”

After the first 2 days on the project this should be clear, shouldn’t it? And all the other proposed questions are answered in the first 10 minutes on the first contact with the PO. 10 months later on the project the only thing that matters is what is needed and when.

Agreed. The other plausible, realistic and decent option is that the author of the reaction to my comment does not understand the article at all and does not understand much about who has influence in a company and who’s incentivized to hide, change or create problems. Good luck!

Not sure if heroism is bad.

[1] All teams should have a Jordan, a kobe, a shaquille or a combi. One needs A players and supporting cast. It is not the culture or the org who decides upon the evolution of the heroism. It is the hero who builds a team around him/her. [2] the scrum or agile saga that promotes that all team members should be able to do what all team members do is just excel-minded-nonesense. Cant win championships with only goalkeepers, or only midfielders. Cant prep one to be good in both either during a lifetime.

Probably google wants weat crops that always look alike and are predictable?

https://gcemetery.co/ Google’s reputation is not only in innovation

Not sure if it helps, but if I was in your situation I’d provide a few app updates with a screen to train users on how to install the PWA version and gracefully run away from these problems. Maybe also provide a some sort of a form to get some feedback over the difficulties encountered by users to get there. Good luck!

I blame the software methodologies for this. And the dogmatic LoC per reported hour. Imagine a hacker saying: i need 5 story points to figure out for the REST API how the bootloader works.

The experience i have with scrum is similar to what the procrustean bed suggests. Funny thing -to me - is that usain bolt did not use scrum to win, neither did federer. You can’t go to the moon with scrum. But I do see value in it as long as I drop 80% of what it proposes. Scrum is just a passion killer. We shoud use the ideas from the No Estimates and Accelerate books

Chessbrah on youtube

A book and a half per year? Neither asimov nor herbert could do that. Maybe jules verne? No. Even if tech is different than SF, I strongly doubt the quality of such high book/y delivery

Great list but missing dave farley's books on continuous delivery and modern software development.

Is see clean code but references about hexagonal architecture could be way more impactful, IMHO

To finish according to... scrum's definition of done ?

A technical person with good people skills is the solution. The combi is not rare. It is not payed properly, but defineyely not rare.

I had many non technical managers stuck in their ideas from '70s or from condoms production lines. Non technical managers should either adapt to the industry's dynamics or go elsewhere. They burn a lot of time of the team.

But an unexperienced team does require a manager, of any kind.

Farming is not rocket science. It has been done fot hundreds of thousands of years. Countries The Netherlands exports to should build their own farming areas. The duch farmers will be offloaded from the burden of having to feed the world from "een kleine stukje aarde".

No mention about philips? My philips sensors are expensive but they do not drain the battery. I use them daily for 2.5 years now and did not change the batteries. They are very easy to mount on walls and they have a magnet.

Well, honestly I prefer that money is spent on documenting potentially deprecated subjects than paying agile coaches and non technical scrum masters

I find it very hard to code in languages with no type check. Looking at all other domains, the tools make people better (medicine, constructions, etc). I can't code in vi, sorry, nor can I write a unittest w/o a good editor :)

I prefer to use the term 'Hexagonal architecture based software' instead of 'monolith'

I think this should be tought in schools

I like the list. But, Lisp?

Hexagonal architecture helps much more than SOLID helps. Applying hexagonal results in SOLID code with much less burden. Why? Because SOLID is all about the S and the S is much easier to grasp in hexagonal then it is in theory. Moreover how can one achieve the S but not the OLID? How can one achoive the O without the LID? It probably takes a lot of effort but they are all very imterconnected.