An example of a ‘cargo cult’ is found on the island of Tannu, east of Australia. In WWII, the US military brought a wealth of equipment and supplies to the small island. Cargo (such as fridges, medicines, clothing, weapons) had never been seen by the islanders before and many of… Read More »Cargo cults and logical fallacies
Is your business fit for purpose? What does that actually mean? And how does it relate to what we do? It’s a topic that is regularly referred to in groups that deal with change. It’s a particular favourite of David J. Anderson’s, who I’ve heard mention it a number of… Read More »Fitness for Purpose
Imagine working in a hospital and accidentally injecting someone with the wrong thing (a toxic antiseptic instead of a harmless dye). Over the next three weeks, as a result of your mistake, they slowly die. This was the fate of a “much loved mother-of-four”, Mary McClinton, in a Seattle hospital… Read More »Life and Death Kanban
I spent yesterday morning at ITV. It’s always interesting to see how another company works. Like most organisations it has some good and bad practices, with some teams being more developed than others. All usual stuff. What stood out was the overall belief in self-organisation. It was evident that team… Read More »Rating ITV
How good are your retrospectives? Could they be better? Do you have the opportunity to watch other teams’ retros? Is there someone who you can invite to critique your meetings? During my time at Net-A-Porter, I was lucky enough to work with some excellent people and we helped each other… Read More »Retro: The Movie
Chris O’Hara is a full-time rowing coach working with Oxford University. The ladies 4 x lightweight scullers (four people, two oars each) are heading to the European Universities Games 2014 in Rotterdam at the end of July, and he is determined they will be at their best. But how does… Read More »The Rowing Coach
“I went back to the office after completing the 2-day Certified ScrumMaster course. People expected me to have answers and solutions, but nobody was offering me any support. I felt lost and alone.” Heard that before? Yes, we had too. So a group of us at a Scrum retreat… Read More »Help is coming!
How do you grade risks? How do you decide which project to start next? You probably grade risks on a scale of high, medium or low and you probably choose projects based on the ‘value’ that they will deliver. The problem is, these simple scales are often thought of as… Read More »Star plots
Following on from last week’s post by James, I thought I would continue the estimation discussion, but from a different angle. Douglas Hubbard (author of How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business) believes that we can calibrate our estimation skills so that we are less likely… Read More »Estimation Calibration
The Agile and Lean communities love an acronym, but will settle for an initialism if they have to. For clarification, an acronym is when a word is formed from the initial letters of words in a phrase, and is then pronounced as a separate word (for example, BAFTA or WYSIWYG).… Read More »Acronym Quiz
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