Transparency improves customer satisfaction
The link between transparency and trust is well known. You are more likely to trust the quality of the food you are served when eating at a restaurantRead More…
Tag: agile project management
Handling complexity requires psychological safety
I wrote two weeks back about Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) and the benefit of models such as Cynefin and the Theory of Constraints for being able to Read More…
Thriving at the Edge of Chaos – a review
Over the past couple of years I have regularly heard companies, their portfolios and even individual projects referred to as Complex Adaptive Systems Read More…
The perils of myopic metrics and insular improvements
This Dilbert cartoon from December 23, 2019 illustrates a couple of anti-patterns which I’ve sometimes witnessed in companies who are going thrRead More…
What would I want to receive from my team members this holiday season?
With under a week till Christmas 2019, Mike Cohn wrote a good article about what wishes team members might want to have granted this holiday season frRead More…
Might earned VALUE be an oxymoron for projects following a predictive life cycle?
(As is often the case, one of the learners in a course I taught this week provided the inspiration for this article, so thanks Maca!).
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Early experimentation is key to reducing project risk
Inspection and adaptation are two of the pillars of the Scrum framework but all agile methods recognize the wisdom of Deming’s Plan-Do-Study-ActRead More…
Cultural transformations of high-performing teams
While I was delivering a course on agile fundamentals this week, one of the learners in the class asked me how the mindset and behaviors normally assoRead More…
Small is beautiful for product backlog items
One of the reasons for having small work items at the top of a product backlog is so the team is able to complete them within a short amount of time. Read More…
I may be a “Crazy Fool” but I consider the A-Team to be agile!
When teaching agile classes, I’m occasionally asked if I could provide an example of an agile team from cinema or television. While the first AvRead More…