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Episode Ten – Metrics and Scrum Bashing

What A Lot Of Things

English - March 24, 2022 08:00 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MB
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Previous Episode: Episode Nine – The Great Post Office Scandal and Moxie Marlinspike's Web3 Article
Next Episode: Episode Eleven – Testers vs Toxic Culture and Personal Knowledge Management

Ian and Ash talk about the (mis)use of metrics, including the big four and happiness indices plus how proud Ash was of his Certified Scrum Master qualification but now bashes Scrum with everyone else.

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Here I Belong by Matt HartleyDouglas Adams: How to stop worrying and learn to love the InternetRFC 821 - Simple Mail Transport Protocol (not RFC 822, as Ian thought, which is closely related being about the format of the files containing the messages that get transmitted over SMTP). Still, not the perfect accompaniment to a discussion about Ian’s rightness.Myth: If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It DORA (Google DevOps Research & Assessment (Team)) MetricsHow to measure developer productivity - and how not to by Isaac SacolickScrums Allegiance WebsiteI've sold agile to to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North HaverbrookOwl asking Winnie the Pooh to leave his house for saying Agile Scrum