Agile Estimates Are Non-Transferrable (via Steve Smith) There are so many factors that go into determining an estimate, including who will actually be doing the work. This article supports that arguments with some examples, and a list of things to…
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Professional Development – 2020 – Week 38
Agile Emerging From Crisis By Putting People Above Profits (via Agile Amped) With recent COVID-19 layoffs, Vaco partnered with GiveCamp Memphis to help charities that can’t do various tech things on their own. They paired people impacted by COVID-19 to…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 37
Agile Product Owner is a Bad Bad Idea (via Maarten Dalmijn) Two heavy hitters — Mary Poppendieck and Mike Cohn — have recently stated that the product owner (PO) role is a proxy between the people doing the work and…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 36
Agile Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.5 Distilled (via Wade Chandler) Part of my professional development as Director of Agile Coaches is to understand what tools and frameworks exist in the Agile space. SAFe is a framework for doing Agile beyond…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 35
Agile Is 2020 a Gold Rush Year for New Scrum Masters? (via Mountain Goat Software) Many businesses need less convincing that Agile frameworks are helpful, so having people to facilitate Agile workflows are in higher demand. Some people may move…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 34
Agile Leadership vs. Management (via Leading Agile) Manage the system, lead the people. Instead of telling people how to move faster, remove the blockers that are slowing the system down. Leadership — the ability to motivate and inspire those around…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 33
Agile Agile Project Management with Kanban (via Wade Chandler) Each vertical swim lane is split into active and done. I get that this creates buffers between states, but (1) why not have to-do/doing/done for each state? What not change the…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 32
Agile Setting Up an Internal Coaching Office (via Agile Amped) Takeaways Understand the five levels of listening Understand what modality to use in the Cynefin framework Build new habits to create change When the whole is less than the sum…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 31
Career What to Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Like You (via Harvard Business Review) Trust issues: clarify their expectations (e.g., “How could I add more value to this job?”), create an all-out campaign to enhance your boss’s perception, have frequent…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 30
Business Learning from the Future (via Harvard Business Review) When we have not analogies to the past, it’s difficult to figure out how things will play out in the future. Where does “good judgment” come from? Business schools use case…