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- So what’s with this Pirate thing anyway?
- Stopping The Line
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- Why You Should Stick To Using Whiteboards & Stickies
- Telling Vs Coaching
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- You Are Not A Lathe Operator
- Story Points are Only for the Team
- The Flat-Pack User Experience
- The Hidden Dangers of an Independent Quality Organization
- Rapunzel’s Ivory Tower
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- Where’s My Tools?
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- Transactions for Managing Technical Debt
- The Point of Maximum Learning
- Improving Your Retrospectives
- 5S Your Scrum Board – (Part 2) – In depth
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- Dietary Manipulation (Part 3) – Coffee
- Have We Started Yet?
- Arrrr – Thar Be Treasure in Cambridge!
- Swimlane Sizing – Complete & Fast Backlog Estimation
- Acting on Difficult Advice
- Dietary Manipulation (Part 2) – Carbo-Caution
- Black Holes & Revelations
- Yellow is the new Green
- Intellectual Humility
- The Joy of Peer Reviews (Part 2 – Documentation)
- Agile Is Just A Means To An End
- Express Your Real Motivations
- Escaping the Oubliette (Part 4) – The Litter Patrol
- Distributed Management and Work-Life Integration
- Escaping the Oubliette (Part 3) – Bug Blitz
- SMART Goals and The Elephant Test
- Priority Fatigue
- Building a Case for Change
- Patterns For Collective Code Ownership
- Escaping the Oubliette (Part 2) – Tailing
- Escaping the Oubliette (Part 1a) – Debt Prevention
- Your Baby Might Be Ugly
- Escaping the Oubliette (Part 1) – Topping
- The Joy of Peer Reviews (Part 1 – Code)
- Your Leaders Are Not Gods
- The Oubliette
- Stop Working With Blunt Tools
- Dietary Manipulation – Pizza
- Are You Empowered?
- Freedom To Vent
- Lessons in Application Performance (Part 2)
- Lessons in Application Performance (Part 1)
- Your Leader Sets The Tone For Your Team
- The World Needs Ditch Diggers Too
- Nobody Thanks the Drummer
- Soylent Green Is People
- Why The Manifesto For Half-Arsed Agile Software Development Is Actually Important But Not Enough
- Readiness to Serve
- Blame
- Software Is Just A Means To An End
- Writing Code is NOT a Value-Add Activity
- Cultural Balance
- Stop The Bleeding
- The Egoless Daily Stand-Up
- Learning to Say “No”
- Captain, You’re Wrong!
- Breaking The Seal (Part 2)
- Red Cards
- Agile 20xx – It Takes a Team
- Breaking The Seal (Part 1)
- Communicating in Patterns
- 10 Minute Test Plans
- What’s on Your Radar?
- Just Enough Design
- I’m Drowning in Confetti
- Don’t Open More Barrels Than You Can Consume
- A Decade of What?
- Creative Freedom & Product Ownership
- Ahoy!
Category Archives: People
Convergence & Divergence
It’s been a while since I’ve had time to write but I’m enjoying a brief respite between product releases to collect everything I’ve learned in the last 9 months. I have a few rather significant new ideas I’ve been using that I want to … Continue reading
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Cracking Big Rocks
Things have been rather busy over the last couple of months. I’ve joined a new division at my current company and have the basis for another dozen articles slowly developing but that’s just the start. I have some really exciting … Continue reading
So what’s with this Pirate thing anyway?
Over the last year or so I’ve been asked about this story quite a few times so fitting with my model of reuse and generalization and having re-told it about 3 times in relatively quick succession over the Summer, I felt it … Continue reading
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Telling Vs Coaching
Before I start, a thanks to @fatherjack for being the first person to request a topic from the backlog. If any of you want more of the same, just shout! The Story Up to a certain point in my career, my success … Continue reading
You Are Not A Lathe Operator
This weekend my replacement copy of “The Goal” arrived. (My last copy escaped). I wrote the following article in mid-2009 – some time before I read Goldratt’s “The Goal”. This was eventually published in 2010 internally at the company I … Continue reading
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Tagged collaborate, lean, Theory Of Constraints
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