[FRIAM] organizations

[Roger Critchlow]

I think you're overstating the hazard here.  For ordinary people, with
ordinary management, attempting to complete an ordinary software project,
let them scrum and they'll do better than they will with an ordinary tyrant
micromanaging the project.  If you have a heroic software problem and a
budget appropriate to the problem, then by all means bring in the big guns
and do trial by technical criticism.  But even then, there are standards of
conduct that are understood to apply.   Coming into the meetings like
Donald Trump would make for an edgier debate than you're talking about, no?

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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 2:04 AM, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
wrote:

> Two groups that start with the premise that the whole (a team) is more
> than the sum of its parts and will FOREVER advocate social collaboration
> tools and behavioral guidelines ad nauseam to make sure that the social but
> otherwise ordinary team members will always be able to delay coherent
> technical planning, or (worse!) edgy debates where any proposition could be
> shown to be poorly motivated or false.
>
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>
> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Roger
> Critchlow
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 19, 2017 11:36 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] organizations
>
>
>
> I dunno, you think there's a connection between
> diversity/intersectionality and agile design?  They always harp on hearing
> the quiet voice that's telling the important truth.  Seems like agile's
> main point is that the clients really want something much simpler than they
> can be talked into, but you have to convince all the coders that that is
> true, or else they'll build, or fail to build, something much more
> complicated than necessary.  So you organize as a team of lemmings and
> crowd source the design to death.
>
>
>
> When life gives you lemmings, scrum.  (Life is usually going to give you
> lemmings.)
>
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>
> -- rec --
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>
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:11 AM, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
> wrote:
>
> “It's fun, too, to wander around github figuring out who 18F is, what they
> do, and why they might make an issue of how they want to work together with
> each other and their clients.”
>
>
>
> Heh. I think a bot generated their pages from a dictionary of agile-speak.
>
>
>
> Marcus
>
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