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Improving Your Estimation Skills by Playing a Planning Game

Underestimation is still the rule, rather than the exception. One bias especially relevant to the estimation process is the planning fallacy. This article explores the planning fallacy and how we are vulnerable to it. It explains how you can reduce your vulnerability to this fallacy through playing a planning game that has been specifically devised to help mitigate it.

Andrew Brown
on Apr 25, 2022
Culture & Methods

Thoughtfully Training SRE Apprentices: Establishing Padawan and Jedi Matches

This article shares how Padawans and Jedis can inspire and teach us how to help people of a wide variety of backgrounds, ages, and experience levels to observe and understand failures in production. It covers practical lessons learned and shares how you can create and rollout a program for SRE Apprentices within your organization. It also shares feedback from the SRE Apprentices themselves.

Tammy Bryant Butow
on Aug 04, 2021
Culture & Methods

Cultivate Team Learning with Xtrem Reading

To thrive in the 21st century, companies have to continually enhance their capabilities to create what they want to create. Becoming a learning organization is key to success in the modern world. Peter Senge defined 5 disciplines of a learning organization. This article introduces workshop techniques that will help you start your journey in the 4th discipline, team learning.

Yoan Thirion
on Jul 09, 2021
Culture & Methods

Augmenting Organizational Agility Through Learnability Quotient (LQ) - an Architect’s Perspective

By creating a robust learning framework for the organization, and involving architects and other key technical leaders, Halodoc improved their organizational agility.

Abhijith Krishnappa
on Jul 08, 2021
Culture & Methods

Validation of Autonomous Systems

This article introduces validation and certification as well as the general approval of autonomous systems and their components, such as those used in automation technology and robotics. It gives an overview of methods for verification and validation of autonomous systems, sketches current tools and show the evolution towards AI-based techniques for influence analysis of continuous changes.

Christof Ebert Michael Weyrich
on Jun 23, 2021
Culture & Methods

Training from the Back of the Room and Systems Thinking in Kanban Workshops: Q&A with Justyna Pindel

In the book Kanban Compass, Justyna Pindel shares her experiences from applying training from the back of the room and systems thinking in her Kanban workshops. She adapted her training approach by connecting with attendees and providing them suitable exercises to maximize learning opportunities.

Ben Linders Justyna Pindel
on Jan 19, 2021
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book AI Crash Course

The book AI Crash Course by Hadelin de Ponteves contains a toolkit of four different AI models: Thompson Sampling, Q-Learning, Deep Q-Learning and Deep Convolutional Q-learning. It teaches the theory of these AI models and provides coding examples for solving industry cases based on these models.

Ben Linders Hadelin de Ponteves
on Mar 19, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Creating your Dojo

Dion Stewart & Joel Tosi have written a book about creating a dojo to help teams get better at delivering software products. A dojo is an immersive learning environment where whole teams improve their practices on a range of skills. Dojos are more effective than traditional classroom learning because the whole team works together in the context of their own product and organization.

Dion Stewart Joel Tosi
on Dec 27, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Mastering Professional Scrum

The book Mastering Professional Scrum explores how using the Scrum values and focusing on continuous improvement can increase the value that Scrum Teams deliver. Stephanie Ockerman and Simon Reindl explain how professional Scrum teams can be focused and committed to delivering a Product Increment every Sprint, and how they leverage empiricism to improve themselves.

Ben Linders Simon Reindl Stephanie Ockerman
on Nov 25, 2019
DevOps

Designing Chaos Experiments, Running Game Days, and Building a Learning Organization: Chaos Conf Q&A

The second Chaos Conf event is taking place in San Francisco over 25-26 September. In preparation for the conference, InfoQ sat down with a number of the presenters, and discussed topics such as the evolution and adoption of chaos engineering, key people and process learning from running chaos experiments, and what the biggest blockers are for mainstream adoption.

Daniel Bryant
on Aug 31, 2019
Culture & Methods

Agile Anti-Patterns: A Systems Thinking Approach

Agile anti-patterns can disguise themselves as "solutions" or "workarounds". This article discusses the importance of recognising and classifying a new generation of agile anti-pattern with a systems thinking approach. It shows how to create and promote a shared language using value streams as an effective means of creating a systems thinking culture amongst agile teams and the wider business.

David Johnston
on May 14, 2019
Culture & Methods

Great Scrum Masters Are Grown, Not Born

Becoming a great Scrum Master is a process of mindset shift and skill development. Scrum Masters are Agile Coaches because they do what coaches at the program level do within the scope of teams. The people on the ground need a full complement of skills because on the ground, with teams, day in and day out, is where the action is.

Lyssa Adkins
on Nov 22, 2018