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The Math Behind Agile and Automation
Every once in a while, we encounter individuals on our teams who have a healthy dose of skepticism about these new Agile practices they are learning. For those who tend to be scientifically-minded, or...
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An Agile Vacation: Why Agile Coaches Shouldn’t Take Stickies Abroad
Some of the people on my teams like to play a game called “Tease the Agile Coach by Pretending Everything He Does is Agile.” Last fall I went on a 2-week vacation with my wife in France. When I...
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Agile Myths Busted
Ever run across these guys? People whose lack of experience or fear of change cause them conjure up all kinds of reasons why agile won’t work for their project? Let’s bust those myths! Myth: Agile...
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Growing More Agile: Broadening the Grounds for Self Improvement
We all have our least favorite phrases or questions that come up in day to day coaching. One of mine goes along these lines: “No one has complained about this, so why change? ————– How many of us...
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A Cure for Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s Law – “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” - Cyril Northcote Parkinson Your agile team can be following 99% of the principles and practices behind Scrum, XP,...
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Treat Ideas like Stories and Your Community like Your Team
Many of us are working toward the same objectives – improving our organization’s creativity and effectiveness, transforming our workplaces into environments that make us eager to get to work in the...
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Continuous Planning as an Antidote to the Sunk Cost Fallacy
The Sunk Cost Fallacy, aka “throwing good money after bad”, is the irrational but common human behavior of continuing to do something not because of the return on investment going forward but because...
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Subtractive Transformation (or “How Improving a Company is Like Improving a...
After living overseas for two years and not playing golf the entire time, I returned to the states, joined a golf league, and quickly realized how out of practice I was. I had always had good luck...
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Lean Time Management: Are You a Slave to Someone’s Calendar?
When you get to work in the morning, what is the first thing that you do? I mean, after getting the cup of coffee and cinnamon-swirl danish. Do you check your calendar to see what meetings you have to...
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Intuition & Innovation in the Age of Uncertainty
“My [trading] decisions are really made using a combination of theory and instinct. If you like, you may call it intuition.” – George Soros “The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery....
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An Experiment in Learning, Agile & Lean Startup Style
I always have a backlog of non-fiction books to read. Given the amount of free time that I have every day, I am guessing that it may be years before I get through them. In fact, the rate at which books...
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Extending Cross-Functionality to Programs
There is an excellent rationale for cross-functional teams. For large programs, that rationale can be easily scaled to the program-level. But, for some reason, this isn’t always recognized. TEAM...
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An Agile Vacation: Why Agile Coaches Shouldn’t Take Stickies Abroad
Some of the people on my teams like to play a game called “Tease the Agile Coach by Pretending Everything He Does is Agile.” Last fall I went on a 2-week vacation with my wife in France. When I...
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Ever run across these guys? People whose lack of experience or fear of change cause them conjure up all kinds of reasons why agile won’t work for their project? Let’s bust those myths! Myth: Agile...
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The Math Behind Agile and Automation
Every once in a while, we encounter individuals on our teams who have a healthy dose of skepticism about these new Agile practices they are learning. For those who tend to be scientifically-minded, or...
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An Agile Vacation: Why Agile Coaches Shouldn’t Take Stickies Abroad
Some of the people on my teams like to play a game called “Tease the Agile Coach by Pretending Everything He Does is Agile.” Last fall I went on a 2-week vacation with my wife in France. When I...
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