Sharpen the Saw – Take Time to Keep Your Skills Top Notch

Improve your greatest asset You may have heard this tale before: Once a woodcutter strained to saw down a tree.  A young human who was watching asked “Whatcha doing?”  “Are you blind?” the woodcutter replied. “I’m cutting down this tree.”  The observer was unabashed. “You look exhausted! Take a break. …

Technical Debt – Good or Evil?

Bring up the topic of “technical debt” to a software engineer, a product owner, a stakeholder, or heavens above, the gold owner. What happens? Do you get frowns? Smiles? Nervous fidgeting? Technical Debt is such a loaded, misused, and misunderstood term. I imagine in most conversations when the topic comes up we probably aren’t even …

Six Steps Towards Self Learning Teams and Organizations

One of the 12 principles behind the Manifesto for Agile Software Develop is: At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. This adjustment of behavior can take many forms: from stopping a practice that is not fruitful to simply doing more or less …

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