Scaled Agile processes and stories, with Raxit Ramani

We've got Raxit Ramani, a highly experienced Agile Coach and Project Manager talking about Scaled Agile, SAFe, Stories of things being wrong, and how different government bodies have operated in the past.

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• Michael is still pale after a weekend in the sun. He didn't shed a tear after being in the Spa's floation tank
• Mark dropped a treadmill on his foot.
• Raxit had a good job interview
• You only need one server, given it is sufficiently powerful...

Quickfire Questions

• Your opinion of Agile, in one word.
• Personal preference: Public sector or private sector work?
• What’s the biggest crime against Jira?
• Worst excuse you’ve ever heard for missing a sprint goal or PI goal, or just not having a bit of work done?
• Longest you’ve ever seen a story carried over in the next, and the next, and the next sprint?
• You join a team, day 1, they show you their organisation stuff, and they do all planning in excel. Do you go with the flow, or immediately advocate something else? Why?
• Biggest red flag that someone isn’t really agile?
• What’s a task you dread doing throughout the PI increment?
• Most valuable certifications?

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Big topic for the week

• How would you describe to a new developer, the definition of modern agile software development? What’s it all about?
• You’ve done a scrum master / agile lead type role before. How does a department know when it’s ready to start thinking about a scaled agile framework?
• What sort of problems might they notice first that agile hasn’t seemed to solve for them, even though they’re doing scrum and/or kanban well?
• If 5 or so teams have identified the problem, how do they get business buy-in to get someone in to help with a scaled agile framework?
• Have you seen a scaled agile implementation fail? What are the biggest mis-steps in scaled agile failing? How would you even know it’s failing?
• What sort of stuff gets measured? Are there KPIs?
• Does it make any impact on individual contributors? Or is this just something that helps their managers and product owners be better organised?
• Do top software companies do this?
• Are there any scenarios you’ve seen people implement this, and it was just the wrong idea?

News

• Google chrome sale from DOJ (MacRumors)
• Google donates to Trump inauguration (CNBC)
• Artists release album “Is This What We Want?”, protesting AI (The Guardian)
• HR managers creates 22 fake employees and cashes their pay check for 10 years (TownFlex.com)

Recommendations

SAFe & Scaled Agile

• Scaled Agile Website
• The Art of Avoiding a Trainwreck (Abe Books)
• Learning Agile (O'Reilly)

Tech

• Ghostty vs. Warp, and oh-my-posh

Music

• Courting - Lust for Life, Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story' :: British Alt Rock album :: Apple Music · Spotify · YouTube
• Mercury Rev :: American Rock Band :: Apple Music · Spotify · YouTube
• Fat White Family - Champagne Holocaust :: British Alt Rock album :: Apple Music · Spotify · YouTube
• The Limiñanas :: French Rock band:: Apple Music · Spotify · YouTube
• DJ Counselling - Caring EP :: House album :: Apple Music · Spotify · YouTube

TV

• Drive to Survive (Netflix)
• Zero Day (Netflix)
• Daredevil: Born Again (Disney+)