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Sunday Book Review : Leading Lean Software Development by Mary Poppendieck
Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point by Mary Poppendieck
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Some of the best anecdotal stories on software development that I have read. Great wisdom and content, but failed to push me towards lean [...]
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Deutsch’s Twelve Commandments of Conflict Resolution
If you want to make a difference you better be willing to embrace conflict. In fact, you better be creating and demanding it. How you deal with conflict is where the magic happens.
Here are some key points from Morton Deutsch’s [...]
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A Facilitator’s Best Weapon. Emotional Intelligence.
As a facilitator one of your jobs is to keep things on track. There is a finite amount of time to get the desired objective/output. Sometimes it is important to remember that interactions that seem like they are going no [...]
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How To Have an Effective Internal Agile Coaching Program?
Why are external agile coaches so popular?
I think that they are appealing to management because they have an external view of the organization. Organizations have a hard time understanding their dysfunction, if they are able to recognize it all. Outsiders [...]
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Hacking Standups – I Feel Exposed
At Integrum we regularly find new things to try as a result of our regular team retrospectives. Recently, the team had a lot of discussion about what it takes to make teams great. There was a lot of discussion about [...]
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Four Building Blocks of High Performing (Agile) Teams
Building great teams is hard work. When it comes to Agile teams there four building blocks that have to be present. You might consider it the starting DNA sequence for building a high performing team. If the team lacks any [...]
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How SCRUM Teams Are Like The Three Branches of Government
I like metaphors. I can’t help but think that the roles of a Scrum Team could be compared to the three branches of government.
Executive Branch (Product Owner)
The role of the executive branch is to hold sole authority and responsibility for [...]
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Ruby Revolution Rebuttal
Mark Turner has made a great response titled “Ruby never powered a revolution” to counter my recent post “Ruby is Just a Bunch of Tools“. Excerpts from Mark’s post bold.
“I decided he was wrong.”
Mark, I am never wrong. However, I [...]
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Ruby is Just a Bunch of Tools
I have always liked Unix because of it’s mentality that lots of small tools chained together could be more than an opaque larger tool. In this instance. I mean Rubyists are a bunch of Tools not of the useful kind.
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Sometimes Team Perspective is Needed
The benefit about working on a high performing team is that everyone expects excellence. There is always a drive that it could be better. Nail a perfect 10 and then ask how it could be an 11.
Over time it is [...]
