Teaching reflections #10: The same material must be re-discovered across disciplines learntoteach.tech
@jen4web I love this. I've been struggling with applying agile and lean methods in my current team, primarily because we are not shaped like an 'agile software team of 7±2 people', and our work is slightly different in that we deal with a little bit of hardware, a little bit of software, and some low-code platforms. It's not that I don't know that better ways of doing things exist — those people with their tools and techniques metaphorically live next door — but there is a dearth of material as soon as you step away from the software delivery construct.
@adoran2 100% on this. In a former life, I was a TPM for a sysops team, the only infrastructure PM in a 95-person PMO that was otherwise entirely agile software dev PMs. It was like constantly translating between two very different languages and trying to figure out how to map concepts and techniques back and forth.
@petebrown @adoran2 I'm happy to take a stab at any Agile questions you have. Been teaching the stuff for years, and long ago I taught with @jen4web.
@agilelisa @petebrown Thanks so much Lisa. I've been immersed in agile theory for years; the problem I've been wrestling with is optimising a non-software IT team's ways of working.
@adoran2 Pointing to @agilelisa -- she and I have taught courses together and separately for... um... maybe 17 years now? She's fantastic at structures and workflows.
In any case - yes, there are lots of disciplines that use agile, and the method should be adapted to its environment. Software doesn't have a lock on the "right" way!
@petebrown When I wear my web dev hat, I've often said I'm a professional translator, translating human to geek speak :-D