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November 2023

Backlog course November 2023 table
Sprint Day Date Topics Details Topics
#1 1 15/11/2023 - Topics preesentation
- Books groups formation (3 groups):
(1) The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It by Will Storr,
(2) The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt,
(3) Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck,
(4) The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes by David Robson
- SCRUM Toolbox: mindset, moral emotions, status game, lateral, focus, trap intelligence, time management, scrum
- Meetings: boycotts

- Homework: CIA sabotage, Pareto Principle, Negative and positive Logic
- Week1
- Reading List Agile
- Moral emotions Jonathan Haidt
2 16/11/2023 - What is your impediment?
- Planning poker
- Timetable matching with High/Medium/Low Energy (Time management)
- How to document? Notion, Obsidian, Quarto

- Homework: 3 pillars, 4 foundations, 12 principles
- Planning poker
- Airplanes game
- Foundatios
- Principles
- Pillars
3 17/11/2023 - Iteration: path dependence, pavoland, need? work?, uncertainty cone
- Impediment: what it is, fuda (fear, uncertainty, doubt)
- Time: execution vs. planning, lateral, order, time management
- Pillars (3), Foundations (4), Principles (12 )
- Spaguetti challenge

Homework: Microsoft 2010-20 agile transformation
- Uncertainty cone
- Path Dependence
- The parabole of Turkey
- fud
- Microsoft agile
#2 4 20/11/2023 - User stories, tasks, done and habits
- What is an habit and how to change it?

- 3 pillars, 4 foundations and SCRUM definition

Homework:
User stories, tasks, done and habits
Examples of Foundations bad haibt
- Week 1: Meetings and impediments
- Week 2: User stories, tasks and habits
5 21/11/2023 - 4 foundations
- User stories, tasks, done and habits
- Kanban
- Invest
- Business Model Generation
- Acceptance Criteria vs. Done


Homework:
What is your impediment to mantain your posiiton
Acceptance Criteria vs. Done
- What is kanban?
- What is a kanban board?
- Week 2: User stories, tasks and habits
6 22/11/2023 - How to deliver value
- Writing
- WH-questions

++ Product Backlog: introduction
++ Product backlog: financials, sells, UML, mockUp, Funcitonal Diagrams,..
++ Product Backlog: CD/CI & documentation
++ Four roles in SCRUM:
(1) Scrum Master
(2) Product Owner
(3) Specialist: Operations Chief, Architect, DevOps, Logistic Chief
(4) Team
- How to Merge Two Airlines
- Week 3: Communication and value
7 23/11/2023 - Communication: Writing, WH-questions, Vocabulary
- How to deliver value: Pareto
- Multitasking: Mind’s Limit Found: 4 Things at Once
8 24/11/2023 - The mom test
- Bias: placebo, ikea, halo, anchoring, confirmation
- Books Presentation

Homework:
Habits
I, as a student, want to use daily/weekly metrics tho check the +1% or -!% of my training


#3 9 27/11/2023 - SCRUM: the Guide, concepts and execution, Sprint Zero
- Class projects Review
- Principles
++ Product Owner & Product Backlog: from a piece of paper to Jire
- Guide
- Principles
10 28/11/2023 - Scrum Master
- What is and what is not
- On the same page
- Servent-leader
++ How important is cultural context: world lead industries (Germany, Japan, China)
++ From Zero to One: the most difficult step
++ We must map catalan agile companies

Homework:
Scrum Guide
Principles
I, as a student, want to have some metrics to …

Servent Leader
- Scrum Master
11 29/11/2023 - Mindset
- Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game, Antifragile and the Soviet-Harvard dellusion
- Book Presentation: The trap of intelligence
- React path
++ How to sell: to sell is to guide someone into a new path

++ I, as a student, want to have some metrics to
(1) qty sprint-goal done: exercises, subjects, items
(2) to detect core knowledge in new areas and domains
(3) to be able to explain clearly to other people a core concept
(4) to apply new knowledge and to connect it to old one creating relationships
(5) qty and quality notes & documentation
- Mindset
12 30/11/2023 - Product Owner and Product Backlog
- What is and what is not
- Product Owner and Scrum Master
- Antifragile + Agile + Lateralisation
++ Netflix Architecure: system design

Homework:
Create a figure with three Nodes: (1) Rigid - (2) Anti-Fragile - (3) Fragile and its connections, domains, etc …
- Product Owner
- Of two minds: Iain McGilchrist and the tyranny of left hemisphere religion

Everyone wants to be Netflix of their Industry / Netflix Spring Boot Architecture
13 01/12/2023 - Team: self-organized
- Scrum Master & Product Owner
- The Specialist

++ How to make a good decision: quality info, energy high, why
++ Impediments to be creative: auto-boycott, not being antifragile, not energy-mental, not knowledge network, no purpose, believing fake-concepts
++ Markdown and quarto intro

Homework:
Create your own metrics for this week
- Markdown Basics
- Quote Ian McGilchrist impediments are nice
- How to create a quarto web
- From Hilltop to Nixon

December 2023

Backlog course December 2023 table
Sprint Day Date Topics Details Topics
#4 14 04/12/2023 - Four different cognitive load, time-boxing and job-type in SCRUM events:
(1) Planning: listing, pareto, goal, time management, decisionMaking
(2) Executing: creativity, getting thinks done, Albertus’ dilemma, problem-solving, focus
(3) Reviewing: anti-fragile, feedback analysis, listening, communication, selling
(4) Reflecting: metrics, impediments, understanding, optimal solution, decisionMaking, meeting rules
- Does planning help for execution? The complex relationship between planning and execution
- Brain Activity Associated with the Planning Process during the Long-Time

- Survival or Growth Mindset? / 5 Practical Ways to Move from a Survival Mindset to a Growth Mindset as a Childcare Business Owner
15 05/12/2023 - Albertus’ Dilemma
- What is exactly time management?
- Beyond mindset
- Albertus’ Dilemma
- Mind & Time Management
- The State of Developer Ecosystem 2023 / Blog: The State of Developer Ecosystem 2023
- dukkha / Three poisons
- Can we create mental energy?
- Scrum: How to do twice as much in half the time, Jeff Sutherland, TEDxAix
#5 16 11/12/2023 - Before SCRUM
- Team Dynamics: We are not Rationals
- Mindset: survival vs growth
++ smarter not harder: decision making
(0) the illusion of knowledge
(1) agile: impediments, iteration and grow +1%
(3) intuition & creativity
- Before SCRUM
- The soviet union delusion
- Antifragile
- Mindset matters

- S&P 500: $100 in 1957 → $67,136.47 in 2023 / S&P-1 / S&P-2
17 12/12/2023 - Emotions and Thoughts
- Moral Emotions and Rider/Elephant

- Team Dynamics: We are not Rationals
- What is the illusion of knowledge? There is a unique tool, master-key, to solve all questions: knowing everything
- Debate: the main source of knowledge acquisition
- Team Dynamics
- The illusion of knowledge II
18 13/12/2023 - Emotions and Thoughts
- Moral Emotions and Rider/Elephant
Emotions and Thoughts
19 14/12/2023 FCOO03 Inserció Laboral, sensibilització medi ambiental igualtat de gènere

- Decision Making
++ Steps to decision making:
(1) info, purpose, mental-energy
(2) place, time, ritual
(3) decision comes to you via intuition
++ How to create your own Clear Thinking to make good decisions
(1) physical path: nutrition, exercise, stress, mental health
(2) own habits to create context where you make decisions: music, walk, sea or mountain, silence, shower
(3) learn to recognize intuition

- Book: Range & Generalists
- Books presentation: Focus, Master and his Emissary, The Righteous Mind
- Range: Why Generalists triumph in a specialized world
- Range
- List of emotions
- The zone
20 15/12/2023 FCOO03 Inserció Laboral, sensibilització medi ambiental igualtat de gènere

- Beyond SCRUM
- Recommended books
- Finance: basics
- Mental Energy: basics

++ We face impediments to understand our client through iterations and goals.
This understanding in key to decision making and finding out the proper balances:
(1) mindset: fixed, growth, survival
(2) anti-fragile and lateralization
(3) identity, change and moral emotions (status game and rider/elephant)
(4) productivity vs. creativity
- SCRUM test
- Books
- Brain Energy
- The Compound Effect
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