Imagine bringing humanity to work

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2019-11-30 01:32

Imagine a workplace where you can bring your whole authentic self to work: where you don't have to hide your beliefs or your sexuality or your ethics.

Imagine a workplace where the same standards of social interaction apply as anywhere else, where any behaviour that is unacceptable in any other social context is also unacceptable at work, such as shouting, bullying, patronizing.

The Summoner

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2019-11-29 23:57

Huddled against the cold she peers out into the night. On a far distant hill, a tiny glimmering light of a fire. She squints until she is sure she has really seen it, and then runs down the track to tell the others

Limitations of the industrial manufacturing paradigm, including Lean and ToC.

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2019-11-13 22:44

Be careful how we apply industrial manufacturing paradigms, including Lean and Theory of Constraints(ToC), to IT. Linear stream flow models only work in IT (or, I suspect, manufacturing), at a close scale. Zoom out and they fail us, its not linear any more, not even to an approximation.

I can't get excited about ITIL4

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2019-11-05 22:45

I just can't get excited about ITIL4. No, you didn't miss any blog posts: I haven't written anything yet.

Separating out work and personnel management

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2019-10-18 08:16

I believe the future is to separate work management from personnel ("people") management. This isn't my idea. It has been around forever in various forms. We have tried these ideas in the past. I worked in a matrixed organisation in 1985-7.

Agile hasn't jumped the shark, it has just escaped the pond.

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2019-10-11 22:11

Boy, Agile Enterprise didn't take long to leap over the hype curve into the trough of disillusionment. Agile software has been hammered for some time, and now it's organisational Agile's turn.

Kill the restructure

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2019-09-26 04:05

I'm getting grumpy about the use of structural reorgs to chase ”transformation".
They don't work.
They break existing teams.
They damage morale.
They sow confusion.
And they turn one set of siloes into a different set of siloes.
I wrote recently about the dysfunctions of transformation, and restructuring is one of the worst.

Forget the Fullstack

Submitted by skeptic on Sun, 2019-09-15 02:07

Perfect people don't exist.
Start where you are. Work with who you have. Let the teams do "team Tetris" to self assemble into functional units with all the skills they need.

The wonderful free resources from DevOps Forum are the best. Thankyou Gene Kim!

Bringing Humanity to Work

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2019-09-14 08:00

Hear us present on the online conference Shine19 on 30th october at 04:00GMT about
Bringing Humanity to Work
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