Agile Time Pressure Improves Productivity & Quality…Up to a Point (via Mountain Goat Software) There’s a U-shaped curve for productivity vs. pressure. Not enough pressure, and delivery is late. Too much pressure, and you’ll build something unsustainable (or burn people…
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Professional Development – 2020 – Week 18
Agile If Estimates Were Accurate, We’d Call Them Actuals (via Spikes and Stories) I’m not sure how I feel about this piece. Part of me says his thesis is against estimation because it rarely works. Then he gives a metaphor…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 17
Agile Role of the C-suite in Agile Transformations (via Leading Agile) Clarify strategy and priorities so empowered teams can deliver Balance reporting relationships with skill-based teams Role-model the mindset and behavior changes needed for an Agile culture The 10 Steps…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 16
Business Preparing Your Business for a Post-Pandemic World (via Harvard Business Review) What position can you attain during and after the pandemic? What is your plan for bouncing back? How will your culture and identity change? What new projects do…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 15
Business A More Sustainable Supply Chain (via Harvard Business Review) Supply chains are complex in multi-national corporations (MNCs), and often the lowest tiers have poor social, environmental, or worker safety records. The article offers some best practices companies can adopt…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 14
Business Pricing Policies That Protect Your Brand (via Harvard Business Review) Successful brands typically implement unilateral policies that set the minimum resale price (MRP) or minimum allowable price (MAP). By designing, implementing, and enforcing these policies, brands can keep grey-markets…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 13
Business Will Governments Restrict Foreign Access to Pandemic Supplies? (via Harvard Business Review) In times of crisis — the article cites the Great Depression as an analogy — governments become self-interested, which can worsen the problem. Career How to Make…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 12
Business Building a Culture of Experimentation (via Harvard Business Review) “For every experiment that succeeds, nearly 10 don’t — and in the eyes of many organizations that emphasize efficiency, predictability, and ‘winning,’ those failures are wasteful.” Many companies are reluctant…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 11
Business How Medical Nonprofits Set Winning Strategy (via Harvard Business Review) You need to decide what you’ll focus on and what you’ll not focus on How will you fuel progress? Will you focus on research or execution? Decide who you’ll…
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),…