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The other day I was in the middle of discussion about visuals a team was going to use in a new project. When we came to the point of tracking completion of the project I advised a burn-up chart and intended to move on. The thing that stopped me was the question I was asked: […]
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Almost every time I’m talking about measuring how much time we spend on value-adding tasks, a.k.a. value, and non-value-adding stuff, a.k.a. waste, someone brings an example of refactoring. Should it be considered value, as while we refactor we basically improve code, or rather waste, as it’s just cleaning after mess we introduced in code in […]
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An interesting discussion (that might have happened): I would rather students apply their effort to writing better code than to writing better comments. ~ Bob Martin But… I would rather students apply their efforts to writing less code than writing “better” code. ~ Bob Marshall Because… There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that […]
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Frequent visitors might have noticed a new banner on the sidebar of the blog that says “Kanban Coaching Professional.” It might come as a surprise that I’ve decided to join the Kanban Coaching Professional program. After all, I used the word certifiction (no typo here) repeatedly, shared my concerns about the idea of certifying anything […]
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Tobias Mayer, who I respect very much, recently put his thoughts about ScrumMasters into a blog post. The post that can be summarized best by its title: Delete [ScrumMasters]. The strongest point of the post goes as follows: “I believe the concept of ScrumMaster has done more damage to our industry than it has aided […]
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“It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.” ~ Grace Hopper As a leader of more than a hundred people I often get asked questions that I don’t really know how to answer. Well, I probably could answer pretty easily, although I don’t think “who, the hell, even asks such questions” or […]
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A message that we hear over and over again is that we should optimize the whole and not the parts as local optimizations often (arguably always) result in making the whole operate less efficiently. I don’t want to bring up such stupid examples as counting lines of code (Want some? Here it goes!) or counting […]
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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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