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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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I took part in a very interesting discussion today. We were talking about criteria we should use to appraise leaders and managers in the organization. The most surprising part, at least for me, was discussion about notion of line manager among disputants. It came out that we considered average functional manager as anything between pure-manager […]
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Recent NPR story about (lack of) value in performance reviews caused a stir. Esther Derby reminded her long-time hate relationship with performance appraisals pointing that not only employees but also a lot of managers hate them. What more reviews are tied to merit pay which is also evil. Well, I think it is oversimplification. We […]
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We have limits on our Kanban board. This isn’t really a news. Sometimes we abuse them. Since Kanban doesn’t force you to stick to the limits always-and-by-all-means it shouldn’t surprise you much either. However the interesting thing is when, why, how and how often we do it. I think I should start with stating that […]
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I have a news for you: IT industry is dominated by men. – Pawel, why don’t you tell us something we don’t know? There should be more women in the industry. Which part of “something we don’t know” you haven’t understood? Fine, you get the message. I just wonder why you don’t hire more women. […]
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A question about starting career in project management is heard pretty often. A question about value of different project management certifications usually follows. There is a bunch of standard answers for these questions. Apply for junior role in project management. Attend a course. Help your PM in her job. Get a certificate (this or another). […]
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