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Agile
Why Minimize Management Decision Time
I wrote Unearthing Your Project’s Delays a couple of years ago. I told the story of Cliff, a manager who…
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Agile
Three Ways to Stop Agile Death Marches
Your team says they use Scrum in two-week iterations. And, in order to “finish” everything inside the timebox, you don’t…
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Software Development
Managers Make the Real Product Quality Decisions
In a conversation about product quality, the product owner said, “If the testers found the problems faster, we would be…
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Agile
How Well Do Your Policies Create Desired Outcomes and Trust?
Every organization has policies of some sort. The smaller the organization, the fewer policies you might have. And, the larger…
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Agile
Create More Management Transparency
In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used…
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Agile
Process Agility: An Impossibility?
I’ve seen several cases of process standardization recently. Those processes don’t translate to the current context. The processes don’t have…
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Agile
Radical Remote Tip: No Standups
Every single person in a leadership position struggles with (agile) team transparency. These leaders think the team members work alone.…
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Agile
We Won’t Return to Normal; We Will Discover Normal
Many people talk about “going back to normal.” We aren’t going to return to normal. That old normal is gone,…
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Agile
Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams
Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL)? You can use MBWAL with collocated teams.…
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