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The Software Process and Measurement Cast provides a forum to explore the varied world of software process improvement and measurement.  The SPaMCast covers topics that deal the challenges how work is done in information technology organizations as they grow and evolve.  The show combines commentaries, interviews and your feedback to serve up ideas, options, opinions, advice and even occasionally facts. 

 

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SPaMCAST 787 - The Impact Of Starting Too Much Work, Everyone Has Book In Them, Essays and Conversations

Dec 24, 2023

This week we continue in the minefield of why starting everything you are asked to do is problematic that we began in SPaMCAST 785. Framing the discussion is a text from a friend of the cast which highlights those requests that you just can’t say no to. Lots of rationalizations and negative impacts.

We will also have a visit from Susan Parente and her Not A Scrumdamentalist column. In this installment, we discuss the idea that everyone has a book in them. 

Re-Read Saturday News

Vacanti begins Chapter 3 of Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability, by reminding the reader: “A predictable process behaves in a way we expect it to.” Further a predictable process exhibits only routine variation which means learning to distinguish signal and noise.

Buy a copy and get reading - Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability.  The current re-read entry

Week 1: Re-read Logistics and Preface – https://bit.ly/4adgxsC

Week 2: Wilt The Stilt and Definition of Variation – https://bit.ly/4aldwGN

Week 3: Variation and Predictability  - https://bit.ly/3tAVWhq 

 

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https://bit.ly/3MdmvQa 

Next SPaMCAST 

SPaMCAST 788 we will feature the annual SPaMCAST panel. As always the conversation will be rollicking. The topics will cover AI, working in the office, and a look into 2024.