All posts tagged “Process

Summary: A World without Email

Many of my professional connections had been talking about this book, and a former colleague was a champion of the concepts presented in Deep Work (also by Cal Newport). Given my role as an Agile subject matter expert at Lirio,…

Strategic Planning Terminology

TL;DR — Strategic plans have different nouns that pertain to specific things, and those nouns are easy to confuse. Also, strategic plans aren’t just for companies; they work for individuals, too. Context I have the privilege of being involved with…

Notes on .NET Rocks! 1308 on “DevOps Is Dead”

This post is a placeholder for some notes I jotted down about a recent .NET Rocks! podcast (episode 1308) where the hosts, Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin spoke with guest Wes Higbee about software practices. Notes DevOps is dead on arrival, because we’re just seeing…

Notes on .NET Rocks! 1262 on Agile

This post is a placeholder for some notes I jotted down about a recent .NET Rocks! podcast (episode 1262) where the hosts, Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin spoke with guest Matthew Renze about the economics, psychology, and science of Agile. See also, my…

What Kind of Business?

It’s interesting how you find commonalities you wouldn’t normally consider between two areas. The inspiration for this post combines part of a meeting agenda (i.e., types of business) and an aspect of Kanban (i.e., work in process). Context Formal business meeting agendas, for…