In western societies we read from left to right. We are conditioned to look to the top left first. During a recent stand up, a team member pointed out that our kanban board asks us to do almost the opposite. Our work is pulled from left to right. Those work items that are closest… Read More »Working Left to Right
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
Reading David Lowe’s excellent post The Rowing Coach, got me thinking about the differences between a coach and a mentor, and the role someone like an Agile Coach or Scrum Master may take when working with teams or organisations. Should they purely be a coach, solely be a mentor, or… Read More »Coaching v Mentoring
To most of us, the problems with fixing cost, scope and time are obvious. How do we know we can deliver all of the scope, in the time we’ve been given, with the people we have to do it? The short answer, is that in most cases you can’t especially… Read More »Fixed Everything Projects
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
In my recent post; Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools I discussed how there may be difficulties with how we interact with each other. So how might be a good way to talk to one another? Marshall Rosenberg, a well-known psychologist, created a communication process in the early… Read More »A better way to communicate?
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools are supposed to make our lives easier. They provide a one stop shop where we can author and store requirements, manage bugs or issues, manage projects and even manage the build and release of software. Some of them even act as Source Code Management tools… Read More »Do ALM Tools Encourage Communication Waste?
“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!
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