Business How to Shift from Selling Products to Selling Services (via Harvard Business Review) You can’t just sell a three-year license of a software product and leave them alone. SaaS typically works by billing for consumption, like water and electricity…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 12
Agile Summary: The Agile Coaching DNA This book was part of my professional development as an Agile coach. This book walks around the landscape of Agile coaching, why it exists, and whom it serves. It’s full of activities any coach…
Summary: The Agile Coaching DNA
I learned about this book from a blog post Marten den Haring shared with me. Given my role as an Agile subject matter expert at Lirio, reading this book is part of my self-guided professional development. For a chapter-by-chapter summary,…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 11
Agile Value Definition in Agile Transformation (via Leading Agile) This article about business value and IT value alignment reminded me of the Steve Maraboli quotation about relationships, “Let’s not forget it’s you and me vs. the problem… NOT you vs….
Working Effectively with Legacy Code – Part 1
This week we covered the preface & introduction, and the first two chapters (Changing Software and Working with Feedback) of Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. Preface & Introduction I had a similar experience getting into writing code…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 10
Civics What if we replaced elected politicians with randomly selected citizens? Sounds like a wonderful idea, and it appears the pilot for the concept was a success. I agree that our current solution has optimized for the wrong criteria, and…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 9
Agile 5 Things That Maximize the Value of Training (via Leading Agile) Know what problem you’re trying to solve. Have that purpose in mind. Make sure the people you send actually want to be there and know why they’re there….
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 8
Agile Eliminating Barriers to Business Agility with Governance (via Leading Agile) Dependencies are how organizational impediments arise. If you have few dependencies between teams, a governance model is too much overhead. However, it may not make sense to break some…
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 11
This week we covered the last two chapters A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). I’ve been coding along in Python on my Github. Our topics today were space constraints and techniques for…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 7
Business The Most Pressing People Questions Facing Companies Today (via Harvard Business Review) How do you balance your human workforce with automation? What are your plans for remote work? How are you helping ensure employee mental health? How are you…