The "user story" and ALL preiteration artifacts should express the mission NOT the solution.
If some kind of documentation of an algorithm/formula/workflow is needed, it is a deliverable of the story and there is an acceptance criterion saying hey however you end up doing this it has to be documented.
People like the VP, the data scientist, the CEO, the helpdesk tech, the account manager... can have non-code deliverables as part of the story. So the "scrum master" is marshalling resources from throughout the company in order to accomplish the iteration.
The dev team is no longer some set of resources being managed by the PM in order to accomplish business goals. The dev team instead brings capabilities that they have developed during their own internal iterations and projects and time... to the table to help get the job done in concert with team members from all of the departments.
Full circle: this is not a dev pipeline into which is fed what the customer wants and the business needs. The PM/design team doesn't determine "what is to be done" and feed it to the devs. The business faces challenges and the customers want things... and teams are formed to solve problems during iterations. So the articulation of the problem properly, and the discovery of the solution, the trying of multiple possible solutions, the first working, releasable implementation of the solution: these are all done with full visibility of the whole team, during the iteration. Not before.
Arkowitz
Thursday, September 6, 2012
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Check out my friend Bing's site bingtohelp.yolasite.com. She is looking for suggestions on how to help with world hunger. You can read about why in her "about-me" page; her contact is on the site.
Monday, November 7, 2011
circumnavigating the tidal pool
The Jefferson Memorial brought me to tears. The clarity of the statement against tyranny over the mind resonated with me powerfully.
Moving on to the FDR Memorial... and there it was. The glaring perversion of Jefferson's vision. "Free from want"
(The first memorial I visited yesterday was Lincoln, ultimate symbol of the rise of the Federal Govt.; I will leave a discussion of what Jefferson would have thought of him for later... hint: we are all now equally enslaved by a bigger system.)
What? Free from want? Is this a freedom?
The freedoms which were on the table before were freedoms of choice and of opportunity, freedom being the LACK OF EXTERNAL CONTROL OVER THE INDIVIDUAL.
Is there any way to provide a freedom from want without imposing CONTROL OVER THE INDIVIDUAL? Can someone explain this to me?
Moving on to the FDR Memorial... and there it was. The glaring perversion of Jefferson's vision. "Free from want"
(The first memorial I visited yesterday was Lincoln, ultimate symbol of the rise of the Federal Govt.; I will leave a discussion of what Jefferson would have thought of him for later... hint: we are all now equally enslaved by a bigger system.)
What? Free from want? Is this a freedom?
The freedoms which were on the table before were freedoms of choice and of opportunity, freedom being the LACK OF EXTERNAL CONTROL OVER THE INDIVIDUAL.
Is there any way to provide a freedom from want without imposing CONTROL OVER THE INDIVIDUAL? Can someone explain this to me?
Saturday, October 8, 2011
excellence
It is not excellence we seek as architects.
It is beauty.
Beauty begins within the core of what we do.
It is beauty.
Beauty begins within the core of what we do.
Monday, August 1, 2011
limit
There is a limit to the endless combining of all things with all things.
No matter how vast the set of permutations of the keys becomes, it is a finite number.
Spirit, creative, is limitless and can animate the otherwise lifeless matter.
The junction of the spirit with the flesh is the engine which makes captivity within matter pleasurable; endurable.
Jah be praised! Gaze on this vale of tears with an appreciation for the sanctity of all life! It is a beautiful place!
No matter how vast the set of permutations of the keys becomes, it is a finite number.
Spirit, creative, is limitless and can animate the otherwise lifeless matter.
The junction of the spirit with the flesh is the engine which makes captivity within matter pleasurable; endurable.
Jah be praised! Gaze on this vale of tears with an appreciation for the sanctity of all life! It is a beautiful place!
Sunday, July 31, 2011
three layers
I was very serious about painting for some years. The first fifteen or so paintings I produced in my first studio in railroad square back when I was twenty-one all focused on a 3d object which consisted of a pyramid with a cube stacked on it, with a sphere stacked on that. The relationship of this object to its surroundings - earth, sky, and space (and light) basically, is what I was exploring.
The pyramid was the body, the cube the mind, and the sphere the spirit.
Now I have become interested in a new isomorphic analogy. Rather than describing the individual, however, it attempts to describe the world. It is the jungle, the system, and the path.
The jungle is nature. No matter how we romanticize nature, it is a ruthless place where survival of the fittest rules.
The system is our civilization. Government, power lines, the internet, the media... things of the mind, of money, of technology. Rastafari have it correct, it is Babylon System.
The path is a narrow way through these other layers, which is discovered by the spirit.
The pyramid was the body, the cube the mind, and the sphere the spirit.
Now I have become interested in a new isomorphic analogy. Rather than describing the individual, however, it attempts to describe the world. It is the jungle, the system, and the path.
The jungle is nature. No matter how we romanticize nature, it is a ruthless place where survival of the fittest rules.
The system is our civilization. Government, power lines, the internet, the media... things of the mind, of money, of technology. Rastafari have it correct, it is Babylon System.
The path is a narrow way through these other layers, which is discovered by the spirit.
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