Luca Minudel's Blog, page 2
March 16, 2022
Agile professional: don’t be taken hostage
Imagine you are helping someone with a gambling problem.
As a start, with your support, they lock themself out of the betting websites and apps, to avoid temptation.
But later they ask your help to set up a new account in your name to make a small bet.
Saying yes to that would mean colluding with the very same gambling problem they are trying to solve.
An example of collusion for an Agile professional could be contributing to Agile Imposition, a well know problem found in parts of the Agile indus...
February 9, 2022
A collection of videos + books + people to watch for modern leaders
Gary Hamel is a business thinker. He has been on the faculty of the London Business School for more than 30 years.
In this video Reinventing the Technology of Human Accomplishment (15 mins) he explores the Why and How management and ways of working have evolved and are evolving.
Richard Sheridan is CEO and co-founder of Menlo Innovations and author of Joy, Inc.
In this video Joy, Inc. (20 mins) he talks about the people side of the modern ways of working.
John See...
February 7, 2022
Transcending the CapEx – OpEx dichotomy
In software and digital products development, the traditional, most common, and obsolete approach to CapEx and OpEx revolves around a special event in time, the release of the product. It is a heritage of when the software was stored in mass storage mediums (floppy, CD, DVD), packaged, shipped and sold.
The activities that typically come before the release (new product and/or features development) are considered CapEx, the other activities that typically come after (maintenance, support) ar...
