Charlas interesantes sobre agilidad

Estas son algunas charlas relacionadas con la agilidad que he visto últimamente:

• Aprender a distinguir el problema de las soluciones Carlos Blé. Completamente alineado con esta charla... interesantes pistas para pensar en el dominio del problema de forma que se mantengan abiertas gran cantidad de opciones para las soluciones. Complementaria a mi charla El arte del patadón pa'lante
• Una historia sobre Clean Architecture con Ruby Dani Latorre Interesante charla siguiendo los principios de DDD y de Interaction Driven Design. Ejemplo de arquitectura limpia y sencilla de gran flexibilidad y que permite generar código muy sencillo de testear y evolucionar.
• Priorizando productos con el modelo Kano Fernando Palomo. Ya conocia el modelo Kano, pero no he visto experiencias de aplicación y la verdad es que esta charla lo explica muy bien y da un ejemplo de como usarlo de forma muy sencilla y directa.
• Alineando valores con prácticas técnicas Rubén Eguiluz, Alberto Pérez e Isidro López. Ejemplo práctico de como se puede unificar una cultura ágil fuerte con una búsqueda de la excelencia técnica mediate el uso de los principios y prácticas de XP. Como exmiembro de este equipo, esta charla me llena de orgullo y puedo confirmar que todo lo que se comenta es rigurosamente cierto :-)
• Generando tests Rafael de Castro. Interesante charla que explica de forma muy sencilla la técnica de property based testing. Muy instructiva.
• Comunidades de necesidad vs comunidades de soluciones Antonio de la Torre. Interesante charla sobre cultura agile en la que se superponen la curva de adopción, las comunidades de práctica y de soluciones e incluso el modelo Cynefin. Muy interesante. Basada en muchas de las ideas de Chris Matts

Interesting talks and podcast episodes

From the talks/podcast I've seen or heard lately, these are the most interesting I have found:

• hbr-ideacast 557-restoring-sanity-to-the-office Intreview to Basecamp CEO Jason Fried 
• Evolutionary Architecture with Neal Ford  software engineering daily
• Cloud for startup sucess  Julien Lepine
• Evolutionary Software Architectures  Neal Ford
• Cognitive Cynefin: How Language and Bias Keep Us Complicated Liz Keogh —  (there is another version of the same talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0awdNcFbpE)
• The Long Road Sandro Mancuso
• The Build Trap Melissa Perri
• The happy secret to better work Shawn Achor 
• No estimates: how you can predict the release date of your project without estimating Vasco Duarte
• Introducing Eventstorming  Alberto Brandolini
• Why everyone should care about TDD in CAS Vitoria 2016 Steve Freeman

Book Review: Drive (Daniel H. Pink)

Drive

The Surpising truth about what motivate us

by Daniel H. Pink

I think that this book is fundamental to understanding how “work” is changing and what motivates us in a knowledge-work environment.

The jobs from the industrial age are disappearing and each day the number of jobs that require a lot of knowledge and creativity are increasing. So the tools and structures created for the previous era have no sense anymore. In fact I think that some of these tools and ideas are counterproductive.

This book explains human motivation very well and how science is discovering and validating these ideas. It also explains the differences between these ideas and the ideas that are the basis for the actual management techniques used by the vast majority of the companies. It also describes some examples of successful companies that use a more modern approach based on these verified ideas.

An indispensable book to understand the human motivations discovered through science: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose.

It also describes some companies that have been successfully adapted and that use this knowledge about motivation to be more successful.

Indispensable for anyone interested in human relations, world environment and in how to improve our organizations.

I am very pleased to see that a lot of companies in my environment (software development, IT, etc) understand these principles and use this knowledge to generate a more “rich” environment.

Book highly recommended

In case anyone prefers a very quick summary you may also find interesting the following TED talk of its author:

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation

Interesting talks I saw these days (work organization, complexity, leadership, product, trust, collaboration)

These are the most interesting talks I saw these last days: 

• As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify Yves Morieux. Cooperation, trust and other "imprescindible" skills for the actual work... and how this idea of classical management is a great skill for a kind of work that now is completly obsolete.
• GOTO 2016 The Future of Software Engineering Mary Poppendieck
• GOTO 2016 Who do You Trust? Beware of Your Brain Linda Rising
• What Google Learned about Creating Effective Teams Matt Sakaguchi. A must... the base for good teams.
• Why 40 Hours is Enough: Lessons from Basecamp Jason Fried
• Organize for Complexity Niels Pflaeging.
• How to Get People to Follow You Simon Sinek (Inside Quest).
• Millennials in the Workplace Simon Sinek (an excerpt from the previous interview at Inside Quest).
• The Build Trap Melissa Perri. Great talk about product development strategy.