SPaMCAST 627 - Collaboration, Fit for Use, Essays and Conversations

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Software Process and Measurement Cast 627 features our essay on collaboration.  Collaboration is a word that gets thrown around A LOT in team-oriented environments. I am not sure everyone means the same thing when they use the term.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week we also have a visit from Jon M Quigley and his</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Alpha and Omega of Product Development</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">column. Jon and I talked about the idea of fit for use and its connection to quality.</span></p> <p><strong>Re-Read Saturday News </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week we begin the long-anticipated re-read of</span> <a href= "https://amzn.to/36d6Zz2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Great Big Agile, An OS for Agile Leaders</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> by Jeff Dalton. The book was published by Apress in 2019. The 356 pages (335 pages in Arabic numbers and 21 pages in Roman) are organized into an acknowledgment, foreword, preface, 73 chapters, appendix, glossary, and an index. I called this long-anticipated because the poll before the last re-read, Tame you Work Flow, had such intense competition between three books, I decided to re-read all three.</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Fixing Your Scrum</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">will be next. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This re-read will be a little different. We will not cover all 73 chapters. This is not to say that all 73 are not important; as matter of fact, the chapters we are not going to cover are the ones that I use the most. I divide Great Big Agile into three parts, part 1 covers the Agile Performance Holoarchy (Jeff breaks this into 2 parts) and includes chapters 1 - 7. The second part is a wonderful explanation of 65 agile techniques which spans chapters 8 - 72. I use these chapters as a reference and have given the book to several clients as gifts for just that reason. The third chunk is ch