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Agile
Thoughts on the nature of management work
Returning to my Management, my mini-series of blog… (Non-Commissioned Managers, Analysts aren’t managers and Managers who are not managers) Lots…
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Agile
Analysts aren’t managers
Continuing from my last blog, Managers who aren’t managers, I need to say a bit more about people who aren’t…
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Agile
Managers who are not managers
I’m continuing my theme of management from my January blog (“It takes an engineer to manage engineering”) we need to…
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Agile
It takes an engineer to manage engineering
I’ve been meaning to write about the managers and Agile software development for a long time. And, apart from a…
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Software Development
The staffing pyramid
When I see development teams I expect to see more programmers than requirements people (BAs, Product Managers, etc.), and I…
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Agile
Agile adoption by numbers – and some problems
I’ve done a few agile introductions in my time, in fact I’ve started to feel I could almost write a…
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Agile
Large companies and fast cars
A few weeks ago I tweeted: “Large companies trying to be Agile remind me of middle aged men buying sports…
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Agile
Stop empowering people – End disempowerment!
In the last two posts I’ve discussed some problems with of self-organizing teams and highlighted the need to be clearer…
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Agile
Self-organizing, self-directing, self-managing and authority
Quick as a flash Eben Halford on Twitter pointed out the mistake with my last blog (Question for self-organizing teams).…
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