#lascot — Public Fediverse posts

@kjscotland well, I missed you too, you know!
Myeah, it was painful not attending #lascot this year 😢

@tdpauw missed you at #lascot this year.

Earlier flight cancelled, but I think I’m finally on my way to @LeanAgileScot #lascot

On Sat night one of our friends left her phone in an Uber. Before I heard that, she'd
- used 'find my phone' on her partner's phone, could see hers driving round the city
- tried logging into Uber on his phone, got stuck with a 4-digit code sent to her lost phone

At this point I heard what had happened and got very excited, "I've just heard this exact story in a keynote talk at a conference!"

Used the handy form that got added after @rufflemuffin 's adventure, everyone delighted.

#LAScot

Wrote up my notes from Lean Agile Scotland conference - lots of things I'd like to look into further.

https://neil-vass.com/notes-from-lean-agile-scotland-2023/

#LAScot

Heading home from #lascot. As always, it’s been energising and exhausting. Thanks to @mdalgarno and his team.

Whisky + Cynefin => Whiskynefin 😂

By @kjscotland #lascot

“From clear, through complicated to complex.
We probably need to re-name chaos to oblivion.”
— @wouterla

The live posting of @tdpauw makes me want to go to #lascot very hard

To summarise, focus on
- great people
- market fit
- defensibility

And be
lucky

“The harder I practice the luckier I get”
—- Gary Player

Tom Adeyoola #lascot

“Every startup must build a product that is **at least 10 times better at doing something** than the current prevailing way. Two or three times better will not be good enough …to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in enough volume”
— Ben Horowitz

Tom Adeyoola #lascot

The importance for orgs is not to have great ideas. Any org has ideas. The importance is the ability to kill bad ideas.

Kill puppies!

Tom Adeyoola #lascot

We need to learn learning from failures!

Even the best learn from failure?
Apple, Amazon, Google, …

Tom Adeyoola #lascot

Are your people as diverse as your customers?
If you want to conquer the world make sure your are representative

Tom Adeyoola #lascot

An org culture is not about table football, ping pong and beers. But having great people to work with.

Make room for people to surprise you!
Look for stories in CVs

It is about Values NOT culture fit!
Be mindful about inclusivity

Tom Adeyoola #lascot

What do I mean by people?

Different perspective, experience, skills
Shared values, curiosity, drive

Hire people better than you!!
A type people hire A type people
B type people hire C type people 🤷

Tom Adeyoola #lascot

How to focus on avoiding failure?

- focus on people (staff)
- focus on market
- focus on Intellectual Property (IP) for defensibility

Tom Adeyoola #lascot

Why your ‘Brilliant’ technology fails to have impact, Tom Adeyoola #lascot

We need an idea to solve a real customer issue

Customers always want:
- Quality
- Convenience
- Price

@kjscotland uses the term 'fidelity' to represent the use of iterative development as the core of a successful view of the iron triangle. #lascot

Lessons:

We are responsible
We cannot not have a stance
It’s not black and white
Interrogate our motivation
..

Don’t be an asshole

#lascot

Many teams have silos within the team. Instead of working as a team, there's handovers and separate work per role. @ewebber at #lascot

Oh gosh, that’s so lovely 🥰 (blush, proud, blush) #lascot

(feedback on the feedback wall at @LeanAgileScot)

Cynefin: we don’t know the best solution, so we throw different stuff and see what sticks and that will probably drive us up. One way to walk the complexity.

#lascot

But … complexity, constraints and conflicting goals make decision making hard in practice 🤷
(therefor the best action is no action, which is actually saying we don’t want to think about it)

#lascot

Consequentially, our actions have consequences!
-> choose those actions that promote overall well-being

#lascot

questions to ask …

What world do we want to live in?
Why we care? Empathy, Peace of mind, We really want flourishing masses

#lascot

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should... thoughts on ethical product delivery, Marcel Britsch #lascot

Ethical decisions in product development

=>
Optimise for the well-being of conscious creatures

@ewebber at #lascot talking about a subject close to my heart, about why people don't work together but get stuck in (over -) specialization: "Why can't we all just get along?"

Automated scripting closes the correctness not the goodness!
Therefore it cannot take away testers!!!
Any org thinking they can do without testers coz automated testing is losing a massive amount of value.
#lascot

Quality Engineer: to engineer quality!

to skilfully contrive, organise and influence quality.

Dan Ashby #lascot

Bringing our testing earlier into the process (that is during ideation)

Helps reducing problems in the product ( that is during implementation and support & maintenance).

Dan Ashby #lascot

The slide deck of the @LeanAgileScot pre-conference meetup talk "Shades of Conway's Law" is available online.

I was pleasantly surprised to have so many interested attendees. Thank you!
Thank you also for the kind and gentle feedback afterwards. That was totally unexpected 😊

#lascot #conwayslaw #lean

https://thinkinglabs.io/talks/2022/08/26/shades-of-conways-law.html