Agile Creating the Right Conditions for Stable Teams (via Leading Agile) Don’t time-slice people across multiple teams. How do they figure out which team gets the work done and who gets starved? Solution: someone has to orchestrate their work. Prefer…
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Professional Development – 2020 – Week 45
Agile How to Be Forever Employable (via Agile Amped) TL;DL — the guest is promoting his new book which tells you how to build your brand as a consultant. As a leader how do you enable the kind of culture…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 44
Communication Successful Remote Teams Communicate in Bursts (via Harvard Business Review) “The authors present new research that suggests remote communication is most effective when teams coordinate to communicate in rapid-fire bursts, followed by periods of uninterrupted ‘deep work time’; when…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 43
Agile How Agile Are You and How Agile Do You Want to Be? (via Leading Agile) There are different styles of work, and how you deal with those needs to change. The practices aren’t enough; you need to consider the…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 42
Agile The Art of Business Value Given my role as an Agile subject matter expert at Lirio, reading this book is part of my self-guided professional development. Value is everyone’s responsibility — not just the business, not just the product…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 41
Agile Are We Really Bad at Estimating? (via Mountain Goat Software) We’re good at estimating tasks we’re familiar with (e.g., commuting, cleaning the house). Suppose a project will take 1000 hours, but you won’t know that until the project is…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 40
Agile 9 Things Wildly Successful Agile Coaches Do (via Agile Amped) Agile Coaching Exchange (ACE) in North America is an organization with an intent to bring coaches together around the mission of building competency and community — http://agilecoachingexchange.com/ (The guest,…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 39
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…
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…