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120: Expect The Unexpected with Andy Hunt
01:55 - Andy’s Superpower: Explaining blindingly obvious things to people that they don’t see.
08:13 - Iterative Development and Continuous Learning: Becoming Comfortable with Uncertainty
14:23 - Doing Things Differently
20:41 - Writing and Timeboxing
Conglommora Found (Sequel)
Feedback, Context, and Learning
27:39 - Why should continuous be the goal?
34:24 - Adaptability
39:28 - Making Groups More Effective
45:13 - Andy’s Software Development Journey
Reflections:
Janelle: Shifting from a place of complaining about the constraints of the world, to figuring out strategies for solving these problems and figuring out templates for alternatives: Setting up alternative markets and economic systems that can support alternative ways of working.
Jessica: We can’t predict the future. We can’t know everything. We can’t give an accurate estimate of a number. But we can know something: we can know propensities to some degree, we can estimate in a range, and then we can choose whether to spend time researching to narrow that range.
Avdi: The importance of slack time in teams and organizations.
Andy: Experimentation. Learning. Context. Feedback. Rinse and repeat.
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