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Wizard of the Deep posted:It's simple, really KPIs are a derivative measurement of Epic/Enabler Value Streams, which are determined by a combination of the Kanban backlog and functionally-bumpered budgets. Those are described in your Mosaic Portfolio Canvas by Epic Owners and Key Architects. Your Portfolio Coordination autogenerates Programs from your Company of Peers, your pKPIs, and an ad-hoc CI/CD Pipeline. Source your drat quotes.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:It's simple, really KPIs are a derivative measurement of Epic/Enabler Value Streams, which are determined by a combination of the Kanban backlog and functionally-bumpered budgets. Those are described in your Mosaic Portfolio Canvas by Epic Owners and Key Architects. Your Portfolio Coordination autogenerates Programs from your Company of Peers, your pKPIs, and an ad-hoc CI/CD Pipeline. Thanks! Makes perfect sense now! How did I not see this before?!
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Heffer posted:Its scaling "agile" stuff up to an enterprise level. Jesus christ I am so glad I don't work in a large enterprise.
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nullfunction posted:Source your drat quotes. Sorry, that was from an Agile Schooling Seminar at my last mega-corp.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:DANGER DO NOT READ I started reading this but my brain locked up and bluescreened. Don't read this if you value what's left of your sanity.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:It's simple, really KPIs are a derivative measurement of Epic/Enabler Value Streams, which are determined by a combination of the Kanban backlog and functionally-bumpered budgets. Those are described in your Mosaic Portfolio Canvas by Epic Owners and Key Architects. Your Portfolio Coordination autogenerates Programs from your Company of Peers, your pKPIs, and an ad-hoc CI/CD Pipeline.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:Sorry, that was from an Agile Schooling Seminar at my last mega-corp. Our agile training consisted of a class where we spent most of the time doing sprints where we would iteratively design and test a thing (paper airplane in our case), go through a retrospective, plan for the next iteration, and repeat. Most of our teams have adopted agile in the sense of we're doing standups, estimating work, sticking to a fixed cycle, testing and measuring not just the deliverable but also the process as a whole as we go, and honestly that's really all I think most people need. We're accomplishing things more quickly and with higher quality than our old process now that people are over the initial shock and turmoil that comes with a big change. What people seem to lose sight of is that it's a framework, not a prescription. If some piece of it doesn't work for your team, change that piece until things flow. Everyone's got a price I guess but if you told me the above slide and wall of text is how your company does it I'd probably laugh myself out of the interview.
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I guess what I'm saying is agile is only as bad as you are.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Thank you it all makes so much more sense now.
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nullfunction posted:Our agile training consisted of a class where we spent most of the time doing sprints where we would iteratively design and test a thing (paper airplane in our case), go through a retrospective, plan for the next iteration, and repeat. Congrats, you’re being agile as opposed to Doing Agile.
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I still don't understand what "Agile" is and why they bid on what they're going to do rather than just having their supervisors tell them what to do?
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Schadenboner posted:I still don't understand what "Agile" is and why they bid on what they're going to do rather than just having their supervisors tell them what to do? Its to Accelerate developer Velocity by making them move Fast by making them Sprint during their Rapid iterations for CONTINUOUS delivery
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Methanar posted:Its to Accelerate developer Velocity by making them move Fast by making them Sprint during their Rapid iterations for CONTINUOUS delivery I just make computar work good and network go fast. How is lean formed? How enterprise become agile?
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Heffer posted:That RFP is at least 18 months out from being generally available, so pick your poison. So LOL I had to be cagey because we're a public institution and internally the decision was known but that decision had not been made public, but our Board of Regents has now approved the contract so I can say publicly that we are ditching ServiceNow, and moving to TeamDynamix. So I would need to figure out if TeamDynamix has request item type functionality.
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Heffer posted:Lean development is a pale echo of Lean manufacturing. Lean manufacturing came from Toyota's corporate principles that led them to success in the late 80s, early 90s. If your current Execs grew up as managers during that time period, they were probably indoctrinated with the fear that the Japanese are going to take over all our industries, and that we should copy all their processes to catch up. So they see "Lean" mentioned now, they see "Good Thing What Make Company Better", ignoring the fact that the Lean principles are targeted at manufacturing, and focus on improving performance, reducing waste, and removing defects. Not really a creative process at all. It can be applied to software development (and probably other parts of IT too). If you look at your Kanban board or Sprint as a value stream you'd like to have as little stories as "work in progress" at the same time so people focus on finishing/shipping 1 specific story to add value as fast as possible. Having someone work on 5 stories at the same time means they will all take longer to complete and have a longer time before your work adds value. It also means your feedback loop will be longer and thus you're not failing (and adapting) quickly. Lean also looks at removing bottlenecks and making sure operations run as smoothly as possible. Any improvement that's not directed at the current bottleneck is not an actual improvement as it means work will just pile up quicker at the bottleneck. That said, almost nobody knows how to do this properly which leads to "agile/devops/scrum/whatever does not work (for us)". Usually due to management not buying in or deciding they know better and overrule the methodologies principles. That usually ends in a downward spiral as such interruptions lead to poor results which can be used as 'proof' that agile doesn't work and thus requires them to interfere even more which of course leads to even worse results. Altogether it's a perfect way to make perfectly fine functioning teams feel and perform terribly.
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FISHMANPET posted:So LOL I had to be cagey because we're a public institution and internally the decision was known but that decision had not been made public, but our Board of Regents has now approved the contract so I can say publicly that we are ditching ServiceNow, and moving to TeamDynamix. So I would need to figure out if TeamDynamix has request item type functionality. we’re ditching service now too but funnily enough right as IT decides to ditch it the last two years they spent marketing it to other functions kicked in so now as we are leaving service now our finance, legal, and compliance people are moving onto it for ticketing. our hr and facilities people both have their own custom bespoke ticketing systems that require IE to access big corps are really really funny
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LochNessMonster posted:It can be applied to software development (and probably other parts of IT too). If you look at your Kanban board or Sprint as a value stream you'd like to have as little stories as "work in progress" at the same time so people focus on finishing/shipping 1 specific story to add value as fast as possible. Having someone work on 5 stories at the same time means they will all take longer to complete and have a longer time before your work adds value. It also means your feedback loop will be longer and thus you're not failing (and adapting) quickly. Lean also looks at removing bottlenecks and making sure operations run as smoothly as possible. Any improvement that's not directed at the current bottleneck is not an actual improvement as it means work will just pile up quicker at the bottleneck. Yep. This is happening in the bank. I covered some guy's vacation on a Work Cell that was chosen as an Agile prototype. We were completely sidetracked by damagement choosing to insert new tasks and requests AFTER Sprint meetings where we all agreed and voted on the tasks we would complete for 1 week sprints. So our little time graph kept going up instead of down as tasks were completed. Personally, I think upper management with very few exceptions needs to go down the toilet. C-level and up. Completely incompetent.
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I stay out of the pipeline. I join our 9am standup and create tickets in JIRA linked to whatever Epic I'm working on, but after that I dont touch agile workflow. The client serving teams use sprints and timelines efficiently. My boss has talked about implementing kanban, story points, and sprints but we havent gotten around to it.
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I'm out of this half-assed Agile hellscape. Real, proper server admin job with no lift requirement at a company to-hire. Not contract.
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TerryLennox posted:Yep. This is happening in the bank. I covered some guy's vacation on a Work Cell that was chosen as an Agile prototype. We were completely sidetracked by damagement choosing to insert new tasks and requests AFTER Sprint meetings where we all agreed and voted on the tasks we would complete for 1 week sprints. So our little time graph kept going up instead of down as tasks were completed. I've worked with a few really good Product Owners and Scrum Masters how are used to this type of behaviour and went to hell and back to protect our sprints against external influence. Working in those teams was bliss, but it also helped we had some pretty senior people who weren't afraid to tell management to stuff it.
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Sickening posted:I just had a network lead mention pots line in a design diagram for a totally new build out. Faxes, modems, elevators, fire alarms and other dumb poo poo that facilities should be managing still have use for pots lines. Also if you need a backup emergency line for 911 they are useful.
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TerryLennox posted:damagement This is a good term.
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Naming things is the hardest problem. Prove me wrong
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We have a 'Product Owner' who assigns work to us every two weeks, and we're allowed to disagree and get ignored. Generally after one week, the priorities have changed. This means we're an Agile Scrum team according to him. Tomorrow's my last day, it's great.
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Mute_Fish posted:
Nice!
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I had to Google half the terms on that image. Had no idea this was a thing. Granted I've never been part of any large team like that though. And if that is what I had to deal with, I wouldn't want to.
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Methanar posted:Naming things is the hardest problem. Here's the hardest problems in computer science: 0. Counting Things B. Naming Things Timing Things
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Wizard of the Deep posted:Here's the hardest problems in computer science: I've definitely heard of a lot of Naming Problems in computer science so I agree with this.
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I remember my first scrum meeting where someone was talking about how everyone needs to get their stories submitted and I didn't know what the gently caress she was talking about and assumed it was like creative writing exercises or something.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware / Software Crap > Working in IT 3.0: The Scrum Dumpster
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Scum Master
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Thanks for reminding me that me and a couple of friends wanted to putz around and learn to code while making a simple game to keep it fun. One of them, first day, nominates themselves scrum muster and suggests we emulate a business. They also really love KPIs. I hope I never work with them.
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ijyt posted:Thanks for reminding me that me and a couple of friends wanted to putz around and learn to code while making a simple game to keep it fun. One of them, first day, nominates themselves scrum muster and suggests we emulate a business. half of this does not go with the other half, I will leave it up to the other readers to deduce what I mean.
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So Azure P2S VPNs suck, right? What do folks use for end-user facing VPNs in Azure.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:Here's the hardest problems in computer science: I want you to know that I respect what you did right there.
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Sickening posted:What is the the complete hard on there for using "lean" so often?
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Jeoh posted:We have a 'Product Owner' who assigns work to us every two weeks, and we're allowed to disagree and get ignored. Generally after one week, the priorities have changed. This means we're an Agile Scrum team according to him. Tomorrow's my last day, it's great. I haven't been there very long, but from my eyes, the team's productivity, alignment, and cross-functional collaboration with other teams has never been higher
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Woof Blitzer posted:Scum Master Scrotum Master. Also, the most difficult thing of all is a question managers will ask you continously: “how long will x take to implement”. With X usually being something they just heard/came up with, so essentially you have no idea what they actually want. It is also non scoped and likely has dependencies on other teams/vendors whose timelines you cannot influence but will definately impact your work.
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The past three pages have made me wince repeatedly like being forced to watch a video of CIA extracting info from a prisoner by ramming bamboo shoots up the peehole.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware / Software Crap > Working in IT 3.0: ramming bamboo shoots up the peehole
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