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I failed. It wasn’t very spectacular. Well, if I asked people around they wouldn’t even say it was a failure, but for me it was below-average performance. Thus failure. Did I feel bad? I did. I couldn’t help. I knew I shouldn’t but after all I’m just a human. But then I consider it as […]
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It seems recently I’m telling you a lot stuff about people management and managers in general. If describing the role of manager wasn’t enough you could also read a rant about screwed promotions which we see so often. This all stuff is good (yes, such a shameless self-promotion), but it assumes one optimistic thing: you […]
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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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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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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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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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