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One afternoon this week I was sitting in a meeting room with a manager in a local company. To help me understand some context, I asked how the company was organised. She jumped up to the whiteboard and...
View Articlejust a number
I received an email a couple of weeks ago, addressed to ‘Dear Resource.’ Yeah, thanks. And while I’m on the subject. I know I’m not the most modern or fashionable bloke in the world, but woe betide the...
View Articlemanaging expectations
Yesterday I used the phrase “In that case, we’ll need to manage their expectations.” I’ve used it a million times before. Today I feel it smells bad. Here’s the background: A new team is just starting...
View Articlea week isn’t long to wait
A very important part of the process of incremental delivery is the weekly commitment. Each week the product owner and the development team should agree on an increment of value. The development team...
View Articlewhat’s wrong with corporate culture?
Through various sources this week I’ve learned about Pam Slim’s great blog Escape from Cubicle Nation. Last week she posted her Open letter to CEOs, COOs, CIOs and CFOs across the corporate world,...
View Articleone size fits none
Dave Nicolette tells what happened when Jon Kern (one of the originators of the Agile Manifesto) gave a talk on agile development to the managers in a large corporation’s IT department. “Jon knows his...
View Articlecarnival of the agilists, 3-may-07
When it comes to agile software development my preference swings heavily towards the influence of lean. The two central principles of lean are eliminate waste and respect people – although the second...
View Articleblame
This week I’ve come across a few articles that clicked together as I read them, and in so doing they reinforced one of my deepest beliefs about software development – or any other profession, for that...
View Article“stand in the circle”
While catching up on my reading of lean blogs today I stumbled on a post by Jon Miller at Gemba Panta Rei, called Give Me 60 Minutes and I’ll Give You a Lean Transformation, in which Jon describes a...
View Articlewhat is your experience of mentoring programmes?
One reason I started this blog is that my left and right brains don’t seem to be connected to each other: I tend not to know what I think until I hear myself stating an opinion, and then I’m often...
View Articlewe vouch for…
One of the highlights of Saturday’s NakedAgilists conference was a discussion of wevouchfor.org. This is a website being developed principally by Laurent Bossavit and Brian Marick, on which members of...
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