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Roy Osherove in response to my last post on the art of saying no linked to his short (but very good) article on coaching, pointing it is better to use a chance to help people grow instead of simply turning their requests down. Yes Roy, you’re right. To some point at least. I mean I […]
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Kanban is a funny animal. I started my journey with Kanban treating is as a tool. Then I realized it is more of a vehicle which improves things around. Now, I extract some ideas standing behind the method and use them independently in different situations. Since Kanban is as easy as possible – I use […]
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I hear that one from time to time: “people are our most valuable resource.” Well, they are not. People aren’t your most valuable resource. People aren’t goddamn resource at all. People are, well, people. Individuals. Folks who somehow like to be treated as real persons and not precious pieces of junk otherwise known as servers […]
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These days every blog discussing agile topics should have a big hairy article on Scrum versus Kanban, so here it is. Well, just joking. Actually many people, way wiser than me, approached that subject some time ago already presenting different arguments. If you want to hear some of the strongest opinions out there check Ken […]
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As I’ve already started working on my session for ACE Conference 2011 I tinker at different improvements introduced by Kanban and the way they pop out. Actually if I had to point a single, most surprising for me, feature of Kanban I’d point exactly the way it fosters improvements. When we were starting with Kanban […]
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This time a quick look at different types of project management styles. Since I’m dealing with many different teams and many different project managers I hear plenty of opinions about PMs and approaches they employ in their work. Somehow those opinions tend to support one of three general pictures: the good, the bad or the […]
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Lech brought an interesting subject recently: isn’t running an R&D project with heavy-weight, structured approach extremely difficult? We use to think that we need very flexible approaches for projects which aren’t defined very well, thus agile being frequently a tool of choice for R&D projects, which bear a lot of unknowns by definition. After all […]
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In one role or another I often help teams to try Kanban out or just to help them to create their task board or Kanban board. There is an interesting pattern I observe. First thing is happening when a team discusses what columns should appear on the board. It is very common, and advised, to […]
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I touched money and motivation subject recently. Since the post generated quite a discussion it seems the subject is important for many. It also seems many people disagree with the opinion that money doesn’t really motivate which is nice since it gives me excuse to beat the dead horse again. In short my points were: […]
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Shim Marom’s post on (low) value of industry reports launched an interesting discussion in comment section, which I took part in by the way. The point we reached was how we define whether the project is completed or not. And here we come to the definition of done, term which I learned from Glen Alleman. […]
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