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mlevison.bsky.social
I help repair Bad Scrum and Fake Agile. I want to help teams be effective, fun places - not feature factories.
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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Attempting to create pictures that map the pain points that Scrum teams suffer. Goal is to use a common structure, showing that most of the problems in our work have similar causes. First attempt Sprint Planning from Hell: https://lnkd.in/esemY-Ak Conclusion most problems in Scrum are outside of

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I mean, if we’re just randomly naming stuff… 😜

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2288 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

Money talks

submitted 6 days ago • 2306 comments

Ready to discover a new approach to testing SwiftUI? 🚀 https://qualitycoding.org/swiftui-testing-challenge/

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

WE'LL ALWAYS HOLD THE DOOR FOR EACH OTHER - VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

If I learned one thing from Roman history it's that senators, as a rule, are cowards.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

We move from Technical issues that affect quality to Collaboration and Sprint Execution. Work in Isolation over Collaboration Many Scrum teams think that working in isolated silos is the expectation. Perhaps it's a side effect of the infamous Feature Factory, tickets++. 1/11 #EffectiveScrum

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Very much worth the 5-10 min read, to get perspective on the forces currently in action

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I promised this post a week ago. Failure bow. Forecast over promises. I've already covered many issues that affect software quality - see: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marklevison_yesterday-we-looked-at-how-poor-understanding-activity-7293324567647858688-Y8l9 and https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ma

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

submitted 11 days ago • 2311 comments

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 60 comments

Just learned that there's an X account using a photo of me and slight misspelling of my name. It's leaving harassing and threatening replies to other accounts. So that's fun.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

That's all

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Yesterday, we looked at how poor understanding of User Stories, kills quality. Today it's Flow. Flow is an almost magical state, where do our best work. Scrum should help improve a team's flow. Refinement gives us a clear understanding of next Sprint's work 1 of 8 #EffectiveScrum

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