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Agile at Scale is bullshit by design

28 Tuesday May 2019

Posted by Martyn Jones in agile, agile@scale, All Data, Architecture, Assets, awareness, behaviour, business strategy, Creativity, Dogma, IT strategy, Strategy, structured intellectual capital, Value

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Bruxelles 28th May 2019

To begin at the beginning

To paraphrase the great Bob Hoffman. Just when you thought that if evangelists for Agile were to generate one more ounce of bullshit the entire fucking solar system would explode, what do they do? Exceed expectations.

And how did they do that? Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Agile at Scale with all the miscellaneous, spiced-up and vainglorious crap-on-the-side that accompanies it.

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Books with influence: Dialectic of Enlightenment

25 Thursday Dec 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Books with influence, Creativity

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Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. “What we had set out to do,” the authors write in the Preface, “was nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism.”

From the 2007 Edition.

As a collection of philosophical and social musings, reflections and ideas planted firmly in the spirit and events and flux of the 1930s and 40s, Dialectic of Enlightenment, with its broad range of sketches, provides an accessible route to some of the thought of the times, and in a form that is easy to comprehend, think about and delve deeper into. I think that the problems associated with the reading of Dialectic of Enlightenment tend to be related to the fact that it is either treated as a coherent and cohesive master work, which it is not, that it is treated as highly accessible and therefore highly trivial, which it is not, and that frequently the subtle nuances of the works of thoughts and fragmentary ideas of the continental authors, especially when not originally written in English, tend to get lost in the translation.

What I also like about Dialectic of Enlightenment is that it is a subtle guide for the baffled by the perplexed, a handbook of philosophical survival, of political, social and mental health, a compendium of reassurance, and a book of ‘yes, we also think that our present paths will lead us to nowhere good’.

But the book is not without its detractors. There are some who have trouble with Dialectic of Enlightenment, for what it is, for what they want it to represent – but doesn’t, for what it tells us, for what it leaves for us to contemplate. That is, what it represents, what it represented and the uncomfortable messages it still sends no longer pleases so many.

The comfortably content have no such problems; they can just hate it, despise it and rubbish it, without actually understanding it or reading it. Even shallow thinkers are subject to dilemmas, but the ‘no thought zone’ of the ‘wilfully ignorant’ apart from perhaps being the most comfortable place on earth, is also one of its more sinister aspects.

Today, everyone’s opinion is treated equally, with the same validity, with the same value, with the same level of indifference or respectful disrespect, but at the end of the day, it is not the powerful, reasonable, logical and humane argument that wins, but the arguments that most closely flow with the system, for the benefit of the system and without upsetting the system to any large degree.

In this way we are suckered into accepting the status quo.

Just look at how we cannot think ourselves out of a paper bag. This is problem brought about in part by having no alternative to the current parties and their policies and leaders and interests, and that the only alternative would be for violent revolt, which most of us are strongly against. So we just accept what there is, without seeing the elephant in the room is saying “get off your arse and use the system to deinstall itself, and to install a more humane and reasonable system in its place”… too much like hard thinking and hard work I suppose, and no one is going to ‘provide’ that service over the internet or at the hyper-hyper store or mall.

The POMO nonsense of ‘everything goes’,  ‘do your own thing, baby’ and ‘everything can mean anything’ is just that, self-entrapping crap that will ensure that quite a few people will rage against the effects of the central problems and causes of those problems by first exaggerating peripheral, marginal and frequently superfluous issues.

As Isaac Asimov so succinctly put it “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

In summary, these are some of the things I get from reading Horkheimer and Adorno’s sketches, a sense of ‘we are not alone’ when we think this way, but nonetheless, aspirations aside, this is what we have.


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Silly Season! Data Warehousing is Hadoop is Big Data?

12 Sunday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Architecture, Ask Martyn, Banking, Best principles, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Creativity, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Knowledge, Peeves

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Let’s get this baby off the ground

This weekend I read a piece on the Information Management website by Steve Miller with the title of Big Data vs. the Data Warehouse. It’s an old piece, from March 2014.

It was in response to a piece penned by Bill Inmon, titled Big Data or Data Warehouse? Turbocharge Your Porsche – Buy an Elephant, in which he singled out for criticism the ad campaign of a big-data and Hadoop promoter.

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Nothing achievable is impossible: Challenges, Self-worth and Strategies

09 Thursday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Ask Martyn, Best principles, Creativity, Excellence, Methodology

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I came into IT at the tail end of the seventies when I joined one of the original computing pioneers.

It was a conservative company lead by veterans, engineers, accountants and sales, with many ties to the US administration, the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies.

My interests at the time were in philosophy, politics and economics. I liked to meet people and talk, and also liked to help people solve real-life business problems, so I was always engaged with the corporate staff and executive management rather than with the real hard-core technicians and engineers.

The thing is, I had no idea what constrained IT, so I never had that baggage when thinking about solutions.

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Big Data and the 7 Habits of a Highly Successful Catalan Sheepdog

06 Monday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Best principles, Big Data, Creativity, Executive, Knowledge, Management

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Hi, I’m Ricky Jonesy-Innit, boss of Becci Boo Investments.

Last week we said goodbye to our best commodity trader.

He’d been with us for years.

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Creativity and Corporate IT: Plumbers not Artists

06 Monday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Architecture, Best principles, Creativity, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Excellence, Management, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Strategy

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Behavioural Economics, business strategy, Creativity, IT Strategy, Organisational Autism, Strategy

Like many people around the world I have certain expectations.

When I want some artwork done for a sales campaign, yes, I expect the people that I commission to show a lot of creativity.

When I want to read a novel, go to the theatre or simply chill-out watching a movie, yes, I do expect some degree of creativity.

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Creativity – Three Stories

05 Sunday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Best principles, Creativity, Dogma, Knowledge, Management

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Here are three stories that illustrate the connection between creativity and what we do in business. Jacks’ Retail Story, talks about the expansion of retail business; Jill’s Colour Book Story highlights a hugely pervasive tendency, even in these times; and, Martyn’s Summer Story argues that there is a strategic time and place for some things.

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