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I’ve been working as a manager for the vast majority of my career. Teams I led consisted between a couple to 150 people, most of them being bigger than 20. Throughout that time I’ve had my own office once. And I don’t think it’s been a good idea. I decided to move to the office […]
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I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with Gemba walk. On one hand I just love the idea to go and see. In fact, whenever I have an issue to solve or a question to ask I prefer to move my butt and go meet someone instead of writing an email, chatting on IM or calling. […]
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“Price has no meaning without a measure of the quality being purchased.” ~W. Edwards Deming It always fascinated me how price was the main axis of the game of closing software development deals. Unfortunately, in the vast majority of cases, pricing is used in total isolation from any other criteria, especially quality. It was like […]
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Rightshifting is a nice idea. In its origin it says about improving effectiveness of organizations. When an organization rightshifts it becomes aware of different approaches, methods and techniques that can be used to work better. Eventually, the company adopts some of them and starts treating them as non-optional. Oftentimes, it means that the organization refuses […]
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There is one thing we take almost for granted whenever analyzing how the work is done. It is Little’s Law. It says that: Average Cycle Time = Work in Progress / Throughput This simple formula tells us a lot about ways of optimizing work. And yes, there are a few approaches to achieve this. Obviously, […]
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One of things I’ve learned throughout my career is to assume very little and expect to learn very much whenever changing a job. In terms of learning, there always is a great lesson waiting there for you, no matter what kind of an organization you’re joining. If you happen to join a crappy org this […]
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Have you ever cooked for twenty people? If you have you know how different the process is when compared to preparing a dinner just for you and your spouse. A few days ago I was preparing lunch for folks in my company and I’m still amazed how naturally we use concepts of pull, WIP limits, […]
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You can’t reorganize the way a business thinks by reorganizing the business. ~Stephen Parry I can safely state that every company I worked for was attempting to make an organizational transition during my time there. Motivations varied from simply surviving, through adjusting to a new environment, to improving the whole business. Approaches to run a […]
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One of things you can hear repeatedly from me is why we should limit work in progress (WIP) and how it drives continuous improvement. What’s more, I usually advise using rather aggressive WIP limits. The point is that you should generate enough slack time to create space and incentive for improvements. In other words, the […]
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There was a point in my career when I realized how different the concepts of management and leadership were, and that to be a good manager one had to be a good leader. Since then the idea of leadership, as I understand it, has worked for me very well. I even like to consider my […]
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