Jun 2, 2019
SPaMCAST 549 features our essay Seven Issues Testers Experience Being Agile. Recently I attended the QAI Quest Conference in Chicago, during the conference I got to talk with lots of people from across the development spectrum. From the conversations and workshops, I identified seven common threads that test and quality focused personal experience being or trying to be agile. In order to be agile, not just do agile, we need to tackle these seven issues
We also have the completion of Susan Parente’s three-installment discussion of distributed agile. In this installment of Not a Scrumdamentalist, Susan discusses tools and whether they are the hurdle some people make them out to be.
Re-Read Saturday News
This week we re-read Chapter 6 of Thinking, Fast and Slow, Norms, Surprises, and Causes. The chapter continues the deep dive into System 1 thinking. As noted before, System 1 thinking continually is active nearly all of the time making snap decisions based on associated that it has constructed. In Chapter 6 Kahneman asserts that the main role of system one “is to maintain and update a model of your personal world, which represents what is normal in it.” The Associative Machine (Chapter 5) defines one mechanism the brain uses to construct a model of the world around us.
If you do not have a favorite, dog-eared copy of Thinking, Fast and Slow, please buy a copy. Using the links in this blog entry helps support the blog and its alter-ego, The Software Process and Measurement Cast. Buy a copy on Amazon, It’s time to get reading!
The installments:
Week 1: Logistics and Introduction - http://bit.ly/2UL4D6h
Week 2: The Characters Of The Story - http://bit.ly/2PwItyX
Week 3: Attention and Effort - http://bit.ly/2H45x5A
Week 4: The Lazy Controller - http://bit.ly/2LE3MQQ
Week 5: The Associative Machine - http://bit.ly/2JQgp8I
Week 6: Cognitive Ease - http://bit.ly/2VTuqVu
Week 7: Norms, Surprises, and Causes - http://bit.ly/2Molok2
Next SPaMCAST
SPaMCAST 550 will feature our interview with Michael (Mike) Lynn. Mike and I talked about leadership and agile. Leadership is important any time two or more people get together to pursue a goal. Mike shares his expertise, experience, and wisdom to help shine a light on the relationship between agile and leadership. We will also be halfway to show 1100 next week!