Has the team’s daily stand-up lost a bit of freshness? How might you know? See if you can detect any of the following indicators:
No one seems to be listening to anyone else
Someone is giving waaaaaay too much detail
People are just reporting status: “I’ve been doing my job”
Lack of peer accountability
General dearth of energy
What exactly is bikeshedding? A recent conversation brought a renewed vigor to my use of the term “bikeshedding.” The term was coined c. 1957 by C. Northcote Parkinson to illuminate a discovery he made – that groups of people tended to make a futile investment of time and energy on disputes over …
This is an open invitation to participate in an Agile Uprising (soon to be established) tradition of closing out each year with a series. In 2017 we released the 12 Days of Agile – a dozen podcasts, each chatting about one of the Agile Manifesto Principles (clever, ay?) Then we ignored the …
Have you been part of a team that was faced with a “What shall we do now?” dilemma as the result of a significant change (chaos) introduced into their system? Perhaps it was a really messy problem. Some team members wanting to rush forward and do something, anything. Some felt like they had …
We often hear “Lean” and “Agile” together in the same breath. Are they the same? Or different? Lean originates from Lean Manufacturing, the Toyota Production System, aka the Toyota Kata. Lean is a set of principles for achieving quality, speed & customer alignment. (Hmm… hope that sounds familiar and very …
