Raising and lowering the bar - Revision history

PaulJulius at 23:16, 28 March 2025

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Listed a bunch of books

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[[Julian Simpson]]

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 ThoughtWorks' approach of "attitude over aptitude".
-To be a team, you have to share a problem.
+Another book Toyota Kata, by Mike Rother
 If you are willing to hire your friends into the company, then it's probably a good company.
 Remember to look through the lens of the person you are pitching to.

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 Another book: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
-Most people are driven by cognitive biases. For example, when you are driving, everyone else is driving the wrong speed.
+Cognitive biases drive most people. For example, when you are driving, everyone else is driving the wrong speed.
 In the early days of Agile, they used to say, "Change your organization, or change your organization."
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 As a software executive, like a CTO or VP of Engineering, "you want the CEO to believe that you are on their team."
 Long-running feature branches were an example of lowering the bar.
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 A measure (metric) is meant to be a proxy for something.
 Go back to what the measure is really about. For example, hiring 100 developers is a measure. But take that back to, "we need to demonstrate the ability to scale the organization". Which then gives you the ability to discuss other approaches.

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 People get introduced to Blameless Post Mortem
-Julian mentioned that [[Jason Yip]] talked about CI being the "loom," which is in reference to Toyota stopping the line.
+Julian mentioned that [[Jason Yip]] wrote about CI being the "loom," which is in reference to Toyota stopping the line.
 The book Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain by Philip Crosby was mentioned. https://www.amazon.com.au/Quality-Free-Art-Making-Certain/dp/0070145121
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 As a software executive, like a CTO or VP of Engineering, "you want the CEO to believe that you are on their team."

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 People get introduced to Blameless Post Mortem
-[[Jason Yip]] talked about CI being the "loom", which is in reference to Toyota stopping the line.
+Julian mentioned that [[Jason Yip]] talked about CI being the "loom," which is in reference to Toyota stopping the line.
 The book Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain by Philip Crosby was mentioned. https://www.amazon.com.au/Quality-Free-Art-Making-Certain/dp/0070145121

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	"People deserve to work on projects so good that they brag about them at cocktail parties."		"People deserve to work on projects so good that they brag about them at cocktail parties."
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		+	Deming, The Red Bead Experiment https://deming.org/explore/red-bead-experiment/
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		+	The system is setup for the employees to fail. Similar to some of our workplaces where the systems and tools aren't setup for success from the outset.
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		+	An example of a support person who had too "high" a customer satisfaction rating. The person was told to do more actions per hour, and sacrifice the customer's satisfaction.
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		+	Jurgen Appelo's book, see book: https://www.amazon.com/Management-3-0-Developers-Developing-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321712471
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		+	People get introduced to Blameless Post Mortem
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		+	[[Jason Yip]] talked about CI being the "loom", which is in reference to Toyota stopping the line.
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		+	The book Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain by Philip Crosby was mentioned. https://www.amazon.com.au/Quality-Free-Art-Making-Certain/dp/0070145121

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	Ward's wiki was mentioned as an early place where raising the bar was widely discussed.		Ward's wiki was mentioned as an early place where raising the bar was widely discussed.

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	http://www.exampler.com/discipline-and-skill.html		http://www.exampler.com/discipline-and-skill.html
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		+	"People deserve to work on projects so good that they brag about them at cocktail parties."

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		+	Ward's wiki was mentioned as an early place where raising the bar was widely discussed.
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		+	[[Brain Marick]] was mentioned. The Forgotten Values of Agile.
		+	http://www.exampler.com/ease-and-joy.html
		+	http://www.exampler.com/discipline-and-skill.html