BrendenJan 29, 2023

“Slack in development teams leaves room for sickness, for onboarding, for helping other teams. It leaves room for checking production to see whether the feature we released last week had any unexpected effects. It lets us do our best work. Resilience comes with healthier systems and healthier people.”

Great Sunday read by @jessitron

https://jessitron.com/2023/01/16/resilience-and-waste-in-software-teams/

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Resilience and Waste in Software Teams

Resilience is coping with unexpected events and environmental change. To have resilience, you need slack. Slack in software development lets people do the little tasks that keep the work moving smo…

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Show threadUrs Enzler 🐉Jan 29, 2023
@brenden or get rid of plans for artificial deadlines like iteration/Sprint boundaries and work on the most valuable thing.
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@UrsEnzler

Definitely! As long as the priority is handled in a way that doesn't mean the team is constantly context switching back and forth between valuable things.

Jan 29, 2023 at 6:31pmWeb
Show threadUrs Enzler 🐉Jan 29, 2023
@brenden yes! If the team starts something, it normally should finish it before starting something new. Exceptions may occur, but should be an exception 😀