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Interesting post on the decline of agile coaches roles. I observe as well that something is going on. To me, it is a mix. Lack of experience/poor adaptation of agile leads to poor results; these days there are "agile natives", hence less demand for coaching; currently everybody seems to search for redundancies and eliminate them. It is tempting to fire people who work on the organization.

Curious to see where this leads us since the rot cause for agile movement is still there - the intrinsic complexity of knowledge work.

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A colleague the other day associated “drumbeat” with slave ships. I like this interpretation better.

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Very interesting read on team dynamics, decision making, formal and informal structures etc. Pointed to via the invaluable book “The Manager’s Path” by Camille Fournier.

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What is happening with employee retention right now? An attempt to explain the current situation by McKinsey. Thanks for sharing on XING @Sabrina Zeplin

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Random find while looking for some inspiration on career levels. A bit overheated and here and there unfair, but a lot of wisdom in it.

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Brilliant! There are so many familiar aspects in that, it is crazy. One thing which particularly resonates with me a lot is that quote by Jason Yip

“If you have inconsistent ways of working, it’s more difficult for people to move. If it’s more difficult for people to move, it’s more likely you have inconsistent ways of working. It will just reinforce until all of a sudden, you’re not really working for the same company anymore. You’re working for these kind of weird subcultures.“

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Random morning finding. Need to think about how much I agree to this but it resonates.

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Really cool read about how (social) media are developing!

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Here and there a bit verbose and/or trivial, especially after the remote-forcing Corona times. However for me it triggered some important thoughts about documentation, asynchronous communication and culture that I would not have had that easily without. Highly recommended.

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OKRs always sound quite easy and common sense, but implementing it, especially coming from a feature roadmap approach, is tough, I can assure you.

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Random finding, lol.

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Was not aware yet of this gem. In fact saw that happen _a lot_

Never stop learning...

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Look what gem I found! Varoufakis worked for Valve? Didn’t know that.

Anyway as a lot of people I think he mixes organizational structure too much with operational structure. I do not see how a certain kind of hierarchy prohibits self-organization completely. I believe it is more a question of culture and processes. And from own experience I do not see how self-organization in terms of absence of explicit leader roles is the silver bullet for all problems and all contexts.

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Reflecting about how two-pizza rule and building something like AWS fits together, found this nice read.

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Thanks for the pointer to Martin Rusch. Very interesting, they seem to have loved React Native yet they decided to drop it in the end. The thing which bothers me most here is the idea of letting pretty much everybody run and debug React, iOS and Android dev environments in parallel. As long as React Native does not wrap native 100% this might be way to complex for bigger projects I think.

Interesting: next step was a backend-driven UI composition...

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Oh my. Interesting thoughts on SAFe. Never saw it running in reality, always thinking it is complicated. Did not see this as counterattack from the classical top-down project management world, but Marty’s arguments are quite reasonable :)