37. Conway’s Law
organizations which design systems...
are constrained to produce designs which are copies of
the communication structures of these organizations
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38. how many put as much effort into
designing their communications as
they do their applications and
systems?
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68. Nash Equilibrium
no players have anything to gain by
changing only their own strategy unilaterally.
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69. Pareto Efficiency
an allocation of resources in which it is
impossible to make any one individual better off
without making at least one individual worse off
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70. Pareto Inefficient Nash Equilibrium
possible to make an individual better off
without making any individual worse off
but no one will change their strategy
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100. and not just is words and spirit
but deliberately incentivized
if they are not incentivized, they won’t be real
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101. The real company values, as opposed to
the nice sounding values, are shown by
who gets rewarded, promoted, or let go.
--Patty McCord
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105. on people and their jobs
stone cutting doesn’t work?
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106. Three Stone Cutters
“I’m paid to cut stones”
“I use special techniques to
shape stones in an exceptional
way, here let me show you”
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141. never forget
ARxTA
we believe Agile software development is being dumbed down,
commodified, and is losing its spirit. We seek to replace the current
name with one having two virtues: first, that it capture more exactly
the attitudes of the originally behind Agile; second, that it be
obscure enough that no one will assume they already know what it
means and that - amazingly enough! - they are already doing it.
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142. Resources
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Netflix - culture unleashed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3e1lnixKBM
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dimensions of the learning organization questionnaire (DLOQ) - http://www.partnersforlearning.com/questions2.asp
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Maverick - the worlds most unusual workplace - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maverick_(book)
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The Fifth Discipline - The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Discipline
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Organizational Learning Culture's Influence on Job Satisfaction... - http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/53624/1/Hsu_umn_0130E_10474.pdf
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Yang, B. (2003). Identifying valid and reliable measures for dimensions of a learning culture. Advances in Developing Human Resources
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Fred Ettish - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5maknndsas
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the lessons of vasa http://faculty.up.edu/lulay/failure/vasacasestudy.pdf
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Gossamer Condor
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