“Doing things you don’t enjoy reduces your effectiveness.” – Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry in Personal Kanban I agree: aren’t you much more effective when you are doing things that you find fulfilling and are doing them with people you like? I know I am. I also agree that… Read More »Subjective Well-Being
We all make predictions and are encouraged to do so: from everyday decisions on whether a situation will harm us, to conscious estimates on how the stock markets will act. In my world, teams are regularly asked to predict when something will be ready for market or how big a… Read More »Predictions
When was the last time that you sat down with a team from another company and discussed how each of you tackled a similar problem? How often do you knowledge-share with other firms to learn from one another? Chances are you never have. Most companies seem to prefer to remain… Read More »Share and share alike
Does having too much money discourage a company from being agile? Why are cash-starved start-ups often much better at it? Over the years I’ve found that larger companies struggle at being agile whilst it is almost second nature to start-ups. Within big organisations, blame is often directed towards “old-school managers”.… Read More »Do big companies have too much money to be agile?
The blog post read: “For my teams, as they cannot fully shield themselves from changes in a Sprint, the 20% reserve allows them to [adapt]/deal with most changes, and keep their Sprint commitments.” The team was breaking work down into hours, then keeping a “slush fund” of spare hours to… Read More »Sprint Goals
What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager? A simple question, but not simple to answer; opinions are divided and approaches vary from company to company. Following a discussion at London Agile Discussion Group and further reading, here are my generalised summaries. The Product Owner The… Read More »Product Owner | Product Manager
Lean Coffee is a gathering of a small number of people who want to discuss lean in an informal setting. The first Lean Coffee was in Seattle in 2009 (organised by Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith), but the idea has spread around the world. The format is similar to an… Read More »Lean Coffee
Do you still use physical cards in planning poker? Or maybe you use an app? Either way, the question has to be “why?” A past colleague of mine recently emailed me to say that he’d found such apps, and I asked why he didn’t use hands? “It’s quicker and a… Read More »Show me the hand
Would you be shocked if I told you that, during the Korean War, prisoners of war from the United States gave away military secrets, informed on fellow prisoners, and even publically denounced their country? Would you be even more surprised if I told you they did so without being beaten… Read More »Commitment and Consistency
After relaying Hakan Forss’ Red Brick Cancer presentation from LKUK13 to some colleagues, we got into a discussion about ‘resource efficiency’ and ‘flow efficiency’ in reference to coffee shops. (Names changed to protect identity) The first company, CelestialDollars, takes each person’s order and their money, then pushes the orders through… Read More »Coffee shop flow
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