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„Most software development practices in common use today are seriously outdated and ineffective. This situation arises from lack of initial education, lack of continuing professional development, lack of time for personal improvement, lack of professional standards, treatment of software as a craft rather than as an engineering discipline, and many other reasons. […] The benefits of creating a true profession of…“ 1/
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„When speed becomes the measure of performance it governs the way we experience our lives as well as the quality of our lives. Speed becomes a reason to settle for lower quality and ignore our desires. A friend, Meg Wheatley, told me about a poet who agreed to publish a poem on a very tight deadline. When she asked how he could do that, he said, "All I have to do is lower my standards."“
(Peter Block in „The Answer To How Is Yes“)
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„My point is that urgency is about time. Importance is not. Things that are important are long-term. Things that are urgent are short-term. Structure is long-term. Therefore, it is important. Behavior is short-term. Therefore, it is merely urgent. So, structure, the important stuff, comes first. Behavior is secondary. Your boss might not agree with that priority, but that’s because it’s not your boss’s...“ 1/
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👏 In case you are looking for more #AlexThuBook might be worth a look - or my overall reading list, which is located here:
https://onmoderndev.de/en/reading
🤓📚👋, Alex
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„Hier ist ein konkretes Beispiel für ein solches Prinzip, welches in der Organisationsentwicklung - und insbesondere in der Entwicklung zur Selbstorganisation - von zentraler Bedeutung ist: Es besteht ein dynamisches Gleichgewicht zwischen Struktur im Außen und Struktur im Inneren. Wenn ein Team äußere Organisationsstrukturen und -prozesse reduziert, müssen die Teammitglieder mehr Strukturen in ihrem Inneren aufbauen. Umgekehrt gilt: Wenn ein…“ 1/
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„Hierarchie ist eine Ideologie, genau wie der Homo oeconomicus. Den hat auch noch keiner gesehen.“
(„Hierarchy is an ideology, just as the Homo oeconomicus. Neither were seen by anyone.“)
(Götz W. Werner, Founder)
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„Somehow he [W. Edwards Deming] had said in a sentence what I had struggled to put into four hundred pages. It is amazing, I thought, how clear and direct you can be when you reach the end of your years (Deming was then almost 90). As I took in the totality of what he had written, I slowly started to realize he had unveiled a deeper layer of connections, and a bigger task, than I had previously…“ 1/
(Peter M. Senge in „The Fifth Discipline“)
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„Since any problem is a difference between a perceived state and a desired state, when we change a state to ‚solve‘ a problem, we usually create one or more other problems. […]
EACH SOLUTION IS THE SOURCE OF THE NEXT PROBLEM.
We never get rid of problems. Problems, solutions, and new problems weave an endless chain. The best we can hope for is that the problems we substitute are less troublesome than the ones we ‚solve.‘“
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Nice catch in Carl Sagan‘s „Cosmos“ while reading a section about mankind‘s SETI endeavor - a footnote there states:
„Consider this pronouncement from a British Defence Department spokesman as reported in the London Observer for February 26, 1978: "Any messages transmitted from outer space are the responsibility of the BBC and the Post Office. It is their responsibility to track down illegal broadcasts."
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„Joe Armstrong said about dependencies, "You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle."“ (Dave Thomas in „Simplicity“)
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„Die Chaostheorie beruht im Wesentlichen auf drei Axiomen: Das erste ist, dass chaotische Systeme in ihrem Verhalten zwar streng deterministisch sind (d. h., ihr Verhalten ist vollkommen durch Gesetze und Regeln bestimmt), dass aber - zweites Axiom - ihr Verhalten trotzdem praktisch unberechenbar ist, weil aufgrund der unüberschaubaren Menge und Schnelligkeit von Rückkopplungsprozessen minimale Veränderungen der Ausgangsbedingungen…“ 1/
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„Menschen werden von Motiven getrieben: Jeder Mensch ist Träger einer Vielzahl von Motiven und damit „intrinsisch motiviert". Das Ausmaß der jeweiligen Motive, also deren Dominanz, variiert von Mensch zu Mensch sehr stark. Dass Motive von innen heraus wirken, hat Konsequenzen für Organisationen bzw. Arbeitgeber: sie können nicht motivieren - weil jeder Mensch bereits motiviert ist. Organisationen können nur das Umfeld beeinflussen. Also…“ 1/
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„Welcome to the expert-novice bond—a relationship that predates most of what we consider to be civilization. Experts can’t do what they do without help. Novices want to help, and to learn. So they build a collaborative bond that’s also the engine for building skill. But wait, what about books? School? Workshops? Even Khan Academy or YouTube? Hasn’t our increasingly connected, up-to-date, inexpensive, global academy taken center stage away from…“ 1/
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Come join us today at @jitterted ‘s tech book club… we are starting off with reading Vlad Khononov‘s „Balancing Coupling in Software Design“ 🙋🏻♂️
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„I‘m beginning to think decisiveness is overrated… but I reserve the right to change my mind.“ (Adam Grant in „Think Again“)
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Ok, I have to say it: James Nestor‘s „Breath - The new science of a lost art“ is a mind-warping read 👏📒
https://www.thalia.de/ul/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1059775050
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„The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is.
—G. K. Chesterton,' 20th century writer“… as found in Donella H. Meadows „Thinking in Systems - A Primer“
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„I believe that sw quality is dictated by the system that made it. It isn't decided by process, team, platform, or prog. language, but by the system that integrates those elements into a functioning whole. That means we can improve most sw simply by looking at how elements flow from one part of the system to another and how they interact. We can improve without throwing away what we already know, without adopting this week’s...“ 1/
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„As I learned firsthand, the absence of physical safety can bring injury or death, but the absence of psychological safety can inflict devastating emotional wounds, neutralize performance, paralyze potential, and crater an individual's sense of self-worth. The implication is that organizations that lack psychological safety and compete in highly dynamic markets are galloping their way to extinction.“
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„As the iterations progress, the error bars shrink until there is no point in hoping that the original date has any chance of success. This loss of hope is a major goal of Agile. We practice Agile in order to destroy hope before that hope can kill the project. Hope is the project killer. Hope is what makes a software team mislead managers about their true progress. When a manager asks a team, "How's it going?" it is hope…“ 1/
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„Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.“
(Patrick Lencioni in „The Five Dysfunctions of a Team“)
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@kentbeck in „Tidy First?“
„Es ist vernünftig, sich unsicher zu fühlen, wenn man unsicher arbeitet. Aber es ist vor allem viel besser, sich beim unsicheren Arbeiten auch unsicher zu fühlen, anstatt sich unbekümmert und ahnungslos völlig sicher zu fühlen.“
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„Almost every software development organization has at least one developer who takes tactical programming to the extreme: a tactical tornado. The tactical tornado is a prolific programmer who pumps out code far faster than others but works in a totally tactical fashion. When it comes to implementing a quick feature, nobody gets it done faster than the tactical tornado. In some organizations, management treats tactical tornadoes as heroes. However,…“ 1/
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„Information sometimes represents reality, and sometimes doesn't. But it always connects. This is its fundamental characteristic. Therefore, when examining the role of information in history, although it sometimes makes sense to ask 'How well does it represent reality? Is it true or false?' often the more crucial questions are How well does it connect people? What new network does it create?' It should be emphasised that…“ 1/
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Tristan Harris interviewed by Otto Scharmer for the „Presencing Series 2026“:
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