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2013-05-11 15:34:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I have started a Rhein-Main / Frankfurt chapter of the Limited WIP Society, and we will have our first meetup later this month!

2013-05-04 06:15:44 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

2013-03-28 13:54:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I agree, but when I saw the headline I was hoping the answer would be something like "to make the team member's lives better". After all, they do all the hard work, and they seem to give up so much of themselves for organisations already. Now it seems like Kanban is just another thing they are doing for their employer.

2013-03-25 09:24:21 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

This is critical stuff that many people still don't understand. (Although I still prefer trying to continually reduce transaction costs and batch size first, and optimizing batch size for fixed transaction costs second if the transaction costs really are hard to keep down)

2013-03-22 12:10:25 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Only a few days to go!

2013-03-22 12:07:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I suspect there will be a lot more drama and suffering before we finally defeat sexism in tech.

2013-03-22 11:53:06 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 4 +1s)

Very interesting!

2013-03-22 11:43:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

A nice collection of wise quotes here...

2013-03-18 15:17:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Wow this sounds pretty cool.

2013-03-08 09:45:03 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Interesting, but driving out variability just because it makes estimation difficult seems wrong to me. Variability is often more valuable than estimates. Understanding the variability and coming to terms with the limitations of estimation seems like a better approach.

2013-03-07 12:27:26 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

This is pretty much exactly how I do TDD too.

2013-03-07 12:25:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I agree with this article 83%. He made one small mistake. I posted a comment but it is still awaiting moderation.

2013-02-27 09:37:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

To make real substantive change, you need to attack the following dimensions

Organizational Structure: 
Processes, Practices, Policies
Cultural Beliefs
…in exactly that order.

2013-02-23 18:49:28 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Check out what we made!

2013-02-21 09:43:25 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

"Individual performance management is rubbish.  Not only that, it’s patronising and disabling.  I’ve said it before.  When people aren’t performing, it’s extremely probable that it’s not a behavioural problem; it’s the system."

2013-02-20 07:46:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Very interesting. I recently made the jump from loser to clueless, and am working on becoming a sociopath.

2013-02-20 07:39:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

People are always looking for a concrete list of "what to do". This post has a bunch of good ones!

2013-02-20 07:23:25 (2 comments, 5 reshares, 8 +1s)

Awesome: "What is the next level? Improv. That is, instead of planning and then executing, you want to execute, evaluate, and repeat."

2013-02-19 08:48:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Wow sounds like it was a lot more interesting that I thought it might be. The idea of a kybernetic agency sounds interesting.

2013-02-19 07:47:13 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

"the role of the manager must be one of Social Network Catalyst and Caretaker"

I don't think playing facebook games is what they mean either.

Oh and I really have to get myself a random manager t-shirt some time.

2013-02-19 07:05:52 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hard to believe the way we still conduct business but it seems to be changing.

2013-02-19 07:02:54 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-02-18 14:25:43 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Good point!

2013-02-18 13:42:56 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 0 +1s)

Heh amusing.

2013-02-15 06:02:42 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Looking forward to the betacodex white paper.

2013-02-14 10:36:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"The most prevalent problem is equating efforts that use the terms of process improvement but do the opposite of what process improvement is about. They create a bureaucracy and rules that make change difficult. Ineffective improvement processes (or lack of the processes) can stifle innovation."

2013-02-14 09:37:03 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Nice, but when you consider what a leader is, it is a bit of a tautology. It would be slightly more accurate to say "those that change first are the leaders". At least I assume he doesn't mean "appointed managers go first".

2013-02-14 09:35:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"The worst thing about programmers is that most of them (although this is a largely a product of a corporate environment that rewards mediocrity) lack taste and curiosity, and therefore never become competent.!"

2013-02-13 10:51:30 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Sounds like a clever strategy.

2013-02-12 11:13:45 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Great post!

2013-02-12 08:57:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

I have been going through some JavaScript books, but have noticed none of them cover TDD, so this could be good for me.

2013-02-12 08:54:18 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Interesting

2013-02-12 08:52:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

A good refresher for those that don't quite yet get what the sexism discussions are about.

2013-02-11 09:15:44 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

 “If you manage it not, a resource you are”

2013-02-11 08:31:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I recommend these e-books. Get them while they are free, or support Clarke by getting them once they aren't free anymore :-)

2013-02-08 10:37:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Some great principles! There is no reason why one shouldn't have stunning colleagues and big challenges!

2013-02-08 07:16:58 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Some excellent tips for agile contracts

2013-02-08 06:52:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I have been noticing the same thing too. Customers are looking for areas outside IT to catch up.

2013-02-07 13:57:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Good clarification. I also find myself agreeing with this quote:

“Change is about the interaction of competing narratives, whilst change management aims to impose a dominant narrative on others.”

I prefer supporting change to managing it.

2013-02-07 07:25:31 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-02-05 15:34:53 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Not sure how I feel about this article...

"We define agility as a dynamic capability that allows organisations to adapt their substantive capabilities. What this means is that agility is critical for making sure an organisation’s objectives and actions are responsive and relevant to the dynamic conditions of an operating environment where constant change is the norm.We view agility as a multi-dimensional capability that is comprised of three underlying capacities ... that, when aligned, enable an organisation to anticipate the effects of environmental turbulence and adapt effectively."

So nothing about TDD and pair programming then?

Oh and they seem to have a radically different definition of "velocity" too...

2013-02-05 15:11:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I really should start sharing more of these types of stories. Some people still aren't even aware of the problem.

2013-01-31 10:08:33 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Yes. Absolutely. Great post from Uncle Bob!

I can imagine a couple of hundred years ago, the honest decent hardworking barbers and leech-keepers expressing similar complaints against these elitist doctors!

2013-01-31 09:49:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Yeah projects suck!

2013-01-24 09:10:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I will try and tune into some of these via live streaming...

2013-01-23 09:52:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-01-22 13:36:43 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Great post. But I must comment about this bit:

"you could actually implement Kanban in a very bad command-and-control-ish way. But that’s harder with values in place. For example, “visualizing your workflow” is a practice which can be implemented in a very command-and-control-ish way. But if you had the value “respect” tied to this practice, then this would lead you more naturally to a self-organizing way."

Respect was mentioned in the principle as "Respect the current process, roles, responsibilities and titles". In a command & control culture this will be used as a weapon to preserve the more dysfunctional aspects of culture. Respect will be something that implies "employees have to respect managers authority" or something like that.

Although I think people should be respected always, "the current process, roles,responsib... more »

2013-01-11 09:42:52 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Yep it is true. Deming knew it ages ago.

2013-01-09 08:17:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I think we are seeing a turning point in the way we understand Kanban here. For the first time we are seeing consensus form around the idea that is isn't just about random, neutral or unbiased change, but change towards something exciting, new, rewarding, special, different, empowering, and radical.

All of a sudden the mechanism of the change itself seems a lot less significant than what we are actually committing to changing into.

2013-01-08 15:55:06 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

This could be controversial: "ScrumMasters and agile coaches are actually just managers"