Find me at @davidlaym@devschile.social

Santiago, Chile
Joined April 2008
To be a rock, and not to roll
Dear @MiroHQ team, your product is fantastic and I love it to death, but please stop using the what's new for newsletter stuff. Thanks.
There's ONE THING I see time and again, holding back the agility of orgs & teams. I see this in places years into an #AgileTransformation... For a deeper explanation, watch the full video on YouTube: ⇨ youtu.be/fzqEHwXVpKQ ⇦ #Agile #ScaledAgile #BusinessAgility
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Agile has nothing to do with forced meeting schedules & agendas, fixed team roles, backlogs & backlog management, estimation (even sloppy estimation like points), burn-down charts, twice the work, half the time. Any process that does that & claims it makes you Agile is snake oil.
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I have never seen an actually agile shop adopt SAFe (or any "Scaled Agile" framework) as they grew. They've scaled, lower case. (E.g. Spotify's up to ~1,000 devs), but what they do looks nothing at all like what the hucksters call "Scaled Agile." "Scaled Agile" is snake oil.
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Habría sido bonito, pero Chile es de verdad y no solo un ideal romántico. La democracia está intacta. Toca seguir protegiendola y buscar alternativas para mejorar lo urgente.
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There is NO SUCH THING as a "technical *user* story." A user story is a story that your user tells to you. It describes your user's work, not yours. "Story" is not a code word for "some random programmer task." Tech is an implementation detail for a story, not itself a story.
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El ñuñuki aparte de feo es inseguro – at Providencia, Chile
What has to happen for a car to score zero stars in crash testing
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There is no "product team" in an Agile shop. There is just a dev team that makes product decisions as they work. A product silo is a waterfall phase. You can't sluff that work off onto somebody else. That's not to say product experts don't get together occasionally & discuss.
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"mutation"
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RIP Kathleen Booth, who Invented the first assembly language. She was 100 years old, and I have not seen anything in the news about it, unfortunately. With her husband, they formed the smallest computer group in the UK. Respect!
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Oh no! #Miro just introduced an "estimation" feature that assigns Fibonacci numbers to stickies. @MiroHQ, please please please do not turn Miro into Jira! We don't need another tool that promotes dysfuntion.
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Hoy hice practica de soldadura de SMDs por primera vez. Nada mal para haber tomado 4 tazas de café hoy...
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David Lay retweeted
Bob is trash. Always has been. Anyone who respects him has never been around him, This was worth reading, Jurgen. Well done.
I'm not a fan of canceling people. But that doesn't mean I want to be friends with them. This was worth writing.
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En 1925, Arturo #Alessandri Palma envió al ejército a detener una huelga de obreros salitreros en la provincia de #Tarapacá, provocando una matanza de dos mil trabajadores y sus familias en la oficina #LaCoruña. Descubre más días en efemerides.cl
“When I heard @GretaThunberg say she wants Governments to be Honest about the climate crisis, it dawned on me - hey, I make this series called Honest Government Ads... maybe I can help here. So I wrote this HGA.” — Giordano, @TheJuiceMedia
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"What does @awscloud Service X do?" It's a database that runs containers. "That's not--" I would advise you to be very cautious with how you end that sentence. #MemorableInterview
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Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming of the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.
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Tip para entender la tech durante los próximos años. Si leen "metaverso" entiendan: realidad virtual y/o realidad aumentada con o sin aspectos de redes sociales, gamificación y/o instrucionales o educativos
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Y si, la definición de metaverso casi que requiere las redes sociales, pero hoy en día todo lo que era remotamente vr/ar está renombrado automáticamente a metaverso.