In the previous post I applied the decals. This post covers weathering the main body of the aircraft. Aside: I’ve decided to take a break from posting videos of the build. Although more visually compelling, it takes more effort than…
Making Work Visible – Part 7
This week we talked about metrics, making time thieves visible, and the operations review. Your Metrics or Your Money The idea of using a probabilistic approach instead of a hard estimate is something Geoff had seen in Waltzing with Bears:…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 51
Agile What I Want for an Agile Christmas (via Mountain Goat Software) From the Scrum master… more focus on principles and values instead of prescriptive rules; sell the idea instead of telling people what to do From the product owner……
Making Work Visible – Part 6
This week we talked about preventing negligence and useful board design examples. Preventing Negligence Each of us has experienced the “let’s add this other fix while the hood is up” situation. The author mentioned a circumstance where there were tickets…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 50
Agile What are Systems of Delivery and Systems of Transformation – And Why Do You Need Both? (via Leading Agile) Systems of delivery are Agile processes (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, SAFe) that help you see what’s working and not working. That…
Making Work Visible – Part 5
This week we talked about exposing unplanned work and prioritizing work. The Perfect Crime: Unplanned Work Find a system of tracking every time you get interrupted. This could be putting a sticky note on the board for every task you…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 49
Business Three Ways to Be a More Effective Fundraiser (via TED) The entire video is full of tips on how to fund what’s important to you, and helping to reframe the conversations and your role in them. Understand your feelings…
Making Work Visible – Part 4
This week we talked about ambushing the problem of too much WIP and exposing dependencies. Ambush the Ringleader We spent a fair amount of discussion around the value of swimlanes on a kanban board. All of us have used the…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 48
Business Why Google’s Move into Patient Information Is a Big Deal (via Harvard Business Review) There’s too much patient data and medical knowledge/research to keep up with, so Ascension is partnering with someone who has the IT and machine learning…
Summary: The Manager’s Path
A colleague gave me this book earlier this year (2019), and it’s been on my to-read list since June 2017. I read it cover-to-cover, then went back to compile all of my margin notes and underlined parts. The latter part…