Toots from 2024-10-10
One loophole of data-driven decision making is that what counts as evidence rather than noise is …
One loophole of data-driven decision making is that what counts as evidence rather than noise is socially constructed.
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“Any successful software will be changed as the needs of its users change. Most of the lifetime…
“Any successful software will be changed as the needs of its users change. Most of the lifetime of any successful piece of software will be in the ownership phase. During ownership our costs will be the cost of change. So to reduce overall costs, we need to reduce the cost to change our software.”
https://ian-cooper.writeas.com/is-ai-a-silver-bullet
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“Well. The tools are built by and for people who hate meetings, and often who aren’t very goo…
“Well. The tools are built by and for people who hate meetings, and often who aren’t very good at them. Instead, I want tools for people whose job is built around meetings, and who know they must be excellent at them.”
https://lukekanies.com/writing/those-great-new-calendar-tools-probably-wont-help-you/
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This is an epic breakdown that is spot on. The rise of Proper Noun Agile intersects with the McKi…
This is an epic breakdown that is spot on. The rise of Proper Noun Agile intersects with the McKinseyfication of knowledge work. Neither help great teams make great products.
“Instead I believe that Scrum and the assorted mutations that it has acquired simply reflect a broader lack of understanding of the systems that drive knowledge work, and the industry has simply adopted the methodology that slots most neatly into our most widely-held misconceptions.”
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/tossed-salads-and-scrumbled-eggs/