by Martin Burns | Mar 14, 2014 | Quotes
Learn the story of #booster2014 via my tweets and others I saw and appreciated. Jump to: Wednesday My Talk Thursday Lisa Crispin’s Testing Workshop Evening Session: Fishbowl Friday Gojko Adzic Closing Keynote Summary Thoughts Go to top Wednesday @Maritwitt...
by Martin Burns | Mar 11, 2014 | Announcements
I’m delighted to announce that I will be speaking and leading a workshop on the A3 continuous improvement method at ACE conference in June. If you’re planning on attending, then please think of some real problems that you’re currently facing at work....
by Martin Burns | Mar 10, 2014 | Exploration
Managers are commonly focused on Value-Add in Product Development and how people and teams can increase it. This way of thinking leads to a focus that is harmful to Value Realisation; it incurs a very real Cost of Delay. When we talk about value adding time, we look...
by Martin Burns | Mar 3, 2014 | Review
Reviews of SAFe based on knowledge rather than supposition are increasingly supportive that it has positive intentions, and useful practises. While there are still genuinely held concerns, some of these are based on risks rather than certainties, and assert...
by Martin Burns | Feb 23, 2014 | Exploration
Critising SAFe for ‘scaling agile’ is missing the point. It’s about using means that Agile has developed to improve Product Development Flow in an existing context of significant complexity factors Chris Matts gives a great summary of this context:...
by Martin Burns | Feb 20, 2014 | Announcements
I’m delighted to announce that I’m speaking at Booster Conference in Bergen, 12 March 2014. As I missed the CfP for full presentations in moving jobs and countries, I will be giving a Lightning Talk, looking at some interesting parallel challenges in...
by Martin Burns | Feb 3, 2014 | Exploration, Patterns
To be capable of effectively directing work and leading improvement, management need to have a reality based deep understanding of how value is created and what impediments exist. Often, management will talk about the importance of having engagement from their staff....
by Martin Burns | Jan 30, 2014 | Exploration, Patterns
Management is Non-Value-Add activity. Why do we fund it? To create, sustain and improve a Run Time Environment for Value Add activity. Traditional management is seen as the work of co-ordinating or directing others in a system to achieve best outcome against defined...
by Martin Burns | Jan 27, 2014 | Exploration
In many, if not most, circumstances, insisting that a team must come up with a custom method is harmful. At best, it is a false expectation and at worst designed to create a dependency on consulting skills. For many, if not most, teams, a recipe based approach is...
by Martin Burns | Jan 23, 2014 | Blog, Exploration
[blockquote author=”The Hedgehog Song, The Incredible String Band” float=”left”] Oh, you know all the words, and you sung all the notes, But you never quite learned the song, she sang. I can tell by the sadness in your eyes, That you never...
