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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, and not only coaching, consulting…
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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 the beginning of each sprint…
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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 of July! Yay! Wait, wait,…
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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 in details what is happening…
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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 happens instantly so I can…
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I find it pretty common that teams who adopt Kanban try to draw the ideal process on their boards. Not exactly the one they really follow, but the one they’d like to. It is thinking taken from prescriptive methods – since we have this ideal process we want to implement let’s just draw it so we know where we are…
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One of my favorite and yet most surprising things I learned about Kanban over the years is how it steers change of behavior among mature teams. It shouldn’t be a surprise that at Kanban Leadership Retreat (#klrat) I ended up facilitating a session covering this area. Those of you familiar with #klrat format would understand me when I say I…
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We are professionals, we take pride of our work and we pursue continuous improvement. Most of all we learn. One thing we’ve learned is that pursuing 100% utilization is a myth and a harmful one. Another thing we’ve learned is value of slack time. Building on that, hereby we declare ourselves Slackers. And here is our Manifesto (you can sign it…
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If you visit Software Project Management on occasions you likely know that 100% utilization is a myth. A nice and simple experiment that shows impact of full utilization on effectiveness and at the same time presents value of WIP limits is a ball flow game. The rules are simple: You get a group of people to process 20 balls. Processing…
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As a manager of 130-something people I often have these chats on what opportunities people have to grow within the organization. You know, with such crowd you can pretty safely assume that people do want to grow, to change their role, to get promoted. So they eventually land on a sofa in my office to discuss their future. On one…
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