Jason Yip posted recently about scheduling bug fixes. I liked what he had to say. He is a very thoughtful person. I wanted to extend his thoughts with my own… 1) Fixing bugs is unpredictable – you never know how many you will have or how long they will take to fix. Defects in delivered…
[Curation #3] Competency, Principles, Hiring, PM101
Want to be strategic? Be competent first | Adventures in IT – InfoWorld Provocative post about walking before you run. If you can’t execute, your strategy will not help. Agile Complexification Inverter: What are the Principles? I like this way of thinking – principles first, because it helps us stay out of “methodology” land. Too often, we…
Culture of Duz
A while back, Ester Derby posted in reaction to an email advert for a leadership workshop – about how to counter the “culture of entitlement”. She reacted somewhat violently to “leaders are constantly frustrated” by this. She implied or stated that the leaders who are frustrated are somehow responsible for the culture. So I have…
Curation Collection #2
http://pmboos.posterous.com/how-to-initiate-agile-adoption-within-a-large “Q: What change models work? Q: How ot be agents of change? (as coaches)” This was an insightful list of questions related to enterprise agile adoption. I like questions because they are less likely than answers to lead to one-size-fits-all-suits-none solutions. http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html I like the cult of done. I like the manifesto – I…
Ancient Business Books that I have learned from
OK – so everyone should know that I am “the old one”. I have a couple recommendations for books now out of print that were business oriented, but that I frequently hear blog advice that reminds me of things that I learned 20+ years ago in these books. Today Seth Goding posted Expanding the Circle…
Pragmatically Agile
In a conversation recently, I was reminded how being agile is awfully like being pragmatic. We were talking about topics of interest to project managers like estimation and forecasting and measurement. One of the topics discussed was about grooming the backlog, and backlog sequencing strategies: Walking Skeleton vs. feature by feature? Do you build just…
Inaugural Curation Post…
This week I am making good on my intent to post some of what I’ve been reading and found valuable. agile42 | Feature Injection Applied to Service Delivery I spent a bit of time reading about Feature Injection as a different way (than other agile processes) at dealing with requirements. I really am intrigued, and…
Emergent Vs. Inverted Thinking
In agile communities developers, project managers, testers, there is a phobia or paranoia about big ANYTHING up front – that is we should not spend more energy up front than is absolutely needed to get the committed stories/features done in the next iteration. The concept that we use is emergent thinking. Requirements emerge as we…
What is up with This (Blog)?
So I want to talk a bit about this blog and how I have been doing it and something that has changed the way I will blog in the future… **Personal Stuff** Most of the posts on this blog have been born out of my own experience – both good and bad. This blog is…
Competency Vs. Excellence
We can train people to be competent, but excellence is a result of an individual being given the freedom to make mistakes, to learn, and truly incented to grow without fear of retribution – not without accountability but without loss of reputation. Excellence develops when an individual recognizes his own adequacies and inadequacies, and is…