Lean Thinking, Experience and Experiments
in Enterprise Knowledgework and Services
Recent Recipes
Canonical good practices that consistently work in nearly all large scale knowledgework contexts.
Better Backlog Prioritization Draft
I’m delighted to announce the launch of Better Backlog Prioritisation – a compilation of methods used to prioritise a backlog.
read more“Big 5” dangers for your software company
The definition of “big 5” is traditionally the 5 most dangerous african animals to hunt on foot.
For software development I have defined it as the 5 greatest dangers of running your software company.
The Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock of Teams
Once a software delivery system grows beyond about 20 people, program-level structure emerges and requires management for system-level optimisation for collaboration and trust.
read moreRecent Patterns
Good practices that are well tried and found repeatedly successful, but have more contextual variability.
Colocated Teams, Distributed Organisations
Non-colocated teams can work; it’s just harder, particularly with newly formed teams or inexperienced people.
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Now Is Not The Time for #NoProjects
Why Do Smart People Resist Positive Change?
I’m increasingly convinced that all transformation initiatives should only be staffed and impact those who have actively and consciously opted into the change.
read moreRecent Experiments
Ways of working that should work, but context may render them ineffective. Some have been tried, some are suggestions based on thinking only.
Bi-Modal Delivery is Inevitable. Get Over It.
GIVEN: Big Bang change is ineffective & painful
WHEN: We deliver integrated capabilities during transformation
THEN: Bi-Modal is inevitable
Coffee Rules for Curating Collaboration
Two simple, concrete changes that use coffee to build and engrain good collaborative habits.
Learning Proposal: Leading the Software Intensive Value Stream
Can we prevent the next generation of IT disasters with core learning of some key principles by would-be CIOs?
read moreRecent Writing
Focus Your Retrospective on the Wildly Important
Set an intermediate challenge, whose achievement will tell you that you’re winning. And then improve like hell towards it.
read moreSpeaking at Lean Agile Scotland 2018
My subject is Transformation by Invitation
in which I reflect a little on how organisational change goes, and how we might do it better.
Unwinding Back to Trust
Better ways of working unwind the journey towards formal relationships. Building personal trust increases collaboration.
read moreColocated Teams, Distributed Organisations
Non-colocated teams can work; it’s just harder, particularly with newly formed teams or inexperienced people.
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