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On occasions I deal with an issue small enough that it barely deserves a full-blown blog post, yet it is hard to pack it into 140 characters of a tweet. However, when I’m advising on such an issue for yet another time it is a clear signal that sharing an idea how to deal with […]
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One of outcomes of Hakan Forss’ session on depth of Kanban practices at the Kanban Leadership Retreat was the use of radar charts to show the maturity of a Kanban implementation. The whole discussion started with the realization that different teams adopt Kanban practices in different orders, thus we need a tool to assess them […]
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This is a rant. I’m sorry. We have our mouths full of feedback. We are eager to get feedback on our work. We consider sharing feedback as a crucial part of the work of any leader. Feedback this. Feedback that. Yeah, that’s all true. Except we’re missing one part. When it comes to leaving our […]
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One of signals that something may be wrong with a Kanban implementation is when the Kanban board’s design doesn’t change over time. Of course it is more likely that rapid changes of the board will be happening during early stages of the Kanban implementation, but even in mature teams a board that looks exactly like […]
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Continuing the discussion on differing perspectives of consultants and practitioners, I have asked Scott Berkun a few questions on the subject. I chose Scott because for the past few months he has been coping with both options: while publishing his next book – Mindfire: Big Ideas for curious Minds – he spent a year and […]
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Whenever I’m acting as a coach, a facilitator or a consultant for a team there’s one thing that struck me every time – how much being a practitioner helps me in performing in the role. And when I say a practitioner I think about doing similar work as the teams do on a daily basis, […]
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Often, when I’m working with teams that are familiar with Scrum, they find the concept of cadence new. It is surprising as they are using cadences, except they do it in a specific, fixed way. Let’s start from what most Scrum teams do, or should do. They build their products in sprints or iterations. At […]
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So we had this project which was supposed to end by the end of July. Unfortunately a simple burnup chart, which we used to track progress, seemed rather grim – it was consistently showing very beginning of September as a completion date. A month late. Suddenly, one day it started looking almost perfectly – end […]
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I’ve had a great discussion recently. A starting point was information from Kanban board – basing on my knowledge it wasn’t up to date and, as it appeared later, it wasn’t without a reason. A way of visualizing how situation looked like in a team was sort of tricky. We used the situation to discuss […]
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I’m not a native English speaker, which basically means my English is far from perfect. Not a surprise, eh? Anyway, it happens sometimes when one of natives I’m talking with corrects me or specifically points one of mistakes I keep making. And I’m really thankful for that. I’m thankful most of the time such feedback […]
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