Our book club is growing! We’ve added Jamie Phillips and Ryan Cox to our current group (Jameson McGhee, Dennis Stepp, and Houston Miller). Dennis chose An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson as our next read. Here’s…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 10
Agile How to Estimate Story Points With Multiple Teams (via Mountain Goat Software) Two common mistakes: 1) estimates that don’t reflect the abilities of the teams (i.e., estimator is too far from the work to understand how to size it),…
The Unicorn Project – Part 7
This week our book club talked about chapter 19 and the final parts of the book. Chapter 19 Parts Unlimited is fully bought into sharing quarterly innovations. Jameson said the challenge in practical implementations is motivating people to participate in…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 9
Agile Tying the Investment Tier Back to Agile Delivery (via Leading Agile) Many transformations start grass-roots (team level) where there’s delivery. How do we scale to the program level (related projects)? Then to the portfolio level (all org efforts)? Then…
The Unicorn Project – Part 6
This week our book club talked about chapters 16-18. Chapter 16 The CEO is prioritizing having employees share problems they’d like solved, choosing which ones to prioritize, and giving teams the time to solve them. These innovation centers are following…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 8
Business How Do Consumers Feel When Companies Get Political? (via Harvard Business Review) With the rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) the increasingly political polarization, companies may not be able to dodge picking a side on certain issues such as…
Revell F-4G Phantom II: Part 1
The first step in the build is the cockpit. This step took 10 hr 17 min. I broke the work into sections: ejection seats, consoles with cockpit frame, controls and instrument panels. All of the parts used in this step…
The Unicorn Project – Part 5
This week our book club talked about chapters 13-15. Chapter 13 We liked the notion of a “whitespace change” deployment, where you make a change to something trivial like adding extra line breaks, and get everything completely out the door….
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 7
Agile Is tasking developers with creating detailed estimates a waste of company money? (via LinkedIn) Project management techniques work best when the individual chunks of work are of known size and complexity. Having developers come up with estimates that are…
The Unicorn Project – Part 4
This week our book club talked about chapters 10-12. Chapter 10 The analogy to having multiple Hollywood screenwriters trying to smash all of their scripts together at the last minute with very little coordination seemed implausible to Geoff. However, Jameson…