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Tag Archives: priority
Distributed Management and Work-Life Integration
This was posted on my office wall recently… It brought home what the last decade of international teams and ubiquitous business email access has achieved for many of us software professionals. Since the late 1990′s I’ve worked in globally distributed or … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, People, Simple Tools
Tagged culture, distributed, enterprise, priority, sustainable pace, WIP
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Priority Fatigue
This came to me at 5am after a bout of insomnia… In the last few years the concept of technical debt has really taken root. Teams discuss it and use it to ensure important leftovers get cleared, not just business-critical priorities. … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, Simple Patterns
Tagged fatigue, Kanban, pattern, priority, scrum, sustainable pace, technical debt
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The Oubliette
An oubliette is a particularly unpleasant dungeon characterized by a well-like opening. During medievil times these were used “to forget” (oublier -in French) about “unwanted guests”. Imagine how you’d feel stuck at the bottom of an oubliette? It’s probably one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Planning & Estimation, Technical
Tagged empowerment, fatigue, oubliette, priority, technical debt
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Blame
When your project goes wrong because you’re dependent on another team, whose “fault” is it really? When did you identify the risk? What did you do to mitigate it? What relationship did you build with the team you’re dependent on? … Continue reading
Posted in People, Planning & Estimation, Project Management
Tagged blame, collaborate, dependency, goal, priority, team
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Learning to Say “No”
The great thing about working with software development teams is that on the whole they’re a nice bunch of people who just want to get on and do the right thing. The tricky thing in large-scale enterprise product development is … Continue reading
