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Thoughts from Agile India 2025 — the finale

I recently presented at and attended Agile India 2025, the last one.

Mar 29

Mar 29

DIY leadership development: Learn how the business works

Understand how the business works in terms of business model, key products, and key business processes.

Mar 18

DIY leadership development: Learn how the business works

Mar 18

Platform migration size vs Predictability of migration effort vs Platform customer satisfaction

The larger the platform migration, the more predictable it needs to be to maintain customer satisfaction. Small migrations are both…

Mar 16

2x2 matrix of size of platform migration vs predictability of migration effort required. Large migrations that are less predictable lead to low platform customer satisfaction. Large migrations that are more predictable lead to better platform customer satisfaction. Small migrations are inherently more predictable and lead to better platform customer satisfaction.

Mar 16

Bad idea: “Artificial Intelligence” automatically improves productivity.

AI improves productivity by enabling automation of what could not be previously automated.

Feb 7

Productivity = Value of Impact / Cost of Effort. Automation reduces cost of effort. AI (presumably) enables automation of more creative tasks.

Feb 7

Bad idea: Platforms automatically improve productivity.

As I’ve said previously, productivity is the ratio of the value of Impact to the cost of Effort.

Jan 25

3 product teams have a capability called “Foo” and a Platform Team has a capability called “Shared Foo”. Arrows pointing from product teams to platform team to consolidate costs. Another product team saying “We could use a Foo…” and an arrow pointing from platform team to product team to reuse capabilities.

Jan 25

Bad idea: Developer experience is equivalent to productivity

The SPACE paper, referencing an earlier Microsoft paper, argues for the importance of considering perceived productivity. This is…

Jan 9

“Productivity numbers are up! “I hate my life” scores are also up but I’m sure that’s fine…”

Jan 9

4X — Explore, Expand, Extract AND Exit

Kent Beck’s 2016 3X model (Explore, Expand, Extract) is essentially a different way of expressing Theodore Levitt’s 1965 product life…

Jan 1

4X — Explore, Expand, Extract AND Exit

Jan 1

Bad idea: You can’t measure productivity

The key points from Martin Fowler’s 2003 article “Cannot Measure Productivity”:

Dec 14, 2024

“We’ve improved deployment frequency and lead time for change.” “Those sound like great improvements but what about the frequency and lead time for impact?”

Dec 14, 2024

The books I liked in 2024

Dec 13, 2024

Dec 13, 2024

Bad ideas about software product development productivity

I’m collecting bad ideas about software product development productivity:

Dec 12, 2024

Dec 12, 2024

Jason Yip

Jason Yip

Senior Manager Product Engineering at Grainger. Extreme Programming, Agile, Lean guy. Ex-Spotify, ex-ThoughtWorks, ex-CruiseControl

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