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In one of recent postings I asked you how big your backlog is. My argument was that trying to enforce small backlog size is counterproductive. Although small backlog is easier to manage throwing things away from it just to keep it small isn’t the best idea. However that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do some backlog […]
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Recently I told you about TEDxKrakow and how great idea it is to get engaged in a project like that if you want to get some experience in project management. No one commented that voluntary projects can’t be exactly the same as typical commercial projects even though I pretty much expected to hear this kind […]
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The other day I was asked to discuss how we can improve the way one of our software development teams works. Well, actually it was rather something like “Pawel, help us to implement Kanban” but, as it soon appeared, it wasn’t that simple. A typical discussion about implementing Kanban Me: So where do we start? […]
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Once your organization start talking about performance reviews you usually hear about some formal system with the same structure for everyone involved. That doesn’t really sound like a good idea, right? Why companies are using this approach then? If you have like a couple hundred people on board C-level exec can’t really say anything reasonable […]
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These days wherever you move you hear a lot of buzz words. People manager, are you? There’s one for you. Oh, you are more into leading projects, I understand. Try with hyper-productivity. You will definitely hear it here and there. Well, maybe it is a way to go? For the sake of this discussion let’s […]
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On my AgileCE presentation on Kaban I said that if your Kanban board doesn’t evolve over time you should treat it as a warning sign. It possibly means you don’t improve workflow. And since there’s no by-the-book implementation of Kanban you should experiment all the time. So what has changed on our board recently? I […]
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My recent post on verifying competence triggered some reactions, one of them being specifically interesting. Bob Marshall pointed that my idea of competence test isn’t congruent with Deming’s teachings, namely 95/5 rule. Deming says that 95% of performance is attributable to the system and only remaining 5% can be attributed to individuals. Does it render […]
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Every now and then we judge people we work with. We go through performance reviews, we recruit and we chat over coffee or beer backbiting our colleagues. We use different metrics to make our judgment, anything from formal appraisal process to gut feelings, which renders the results incomparable. There is however one method you may […]
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I was a part of an interesting dialogue: – Pawel, tell me about your last success. – The last launch went flawlessly which means the way we chose to organize the project proved itself as pretty damn good. – OK, and what about your last failure? – I feel I can’t get through with ideas […]
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I discussed recently changing the process in one of teams in the organization. In theory everything is totally easy. We need to assess current situation, find out what should be changed to improve the way the team works, apply new ideas and support them over some time to make them persistent and then go for […]
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