Tag Archives: management

We Cannot Choose Between Management And Leadership

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Johanna

I subscribe to a number of services that look for pithy quotes from Big Names, authors, and other people who are looking for publicity. I saw one about moving from manager to leader. Ok, so these are writers or reporters, … Continue reading →

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Why Does Management Care About Velocity?

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Johanna

I’ve been talking to people whose management cares about their velocity. “My management wants us to double our velocity.” Or, “My management wants us to do more in a sprint.” Or, “My management wants to know when we will be … Continue reading →

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Management Myth About Experts Posted

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Johanna

I have another management myth column posted over at Techwell: Management Myth #2: Only ‘The Expert’ Can Perform This Work. What do you think? Please comment over there.

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Management Myth, Myth of 100% Utilitization Posted

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Johanna

I have an article posted at Techwell, Management Myth #1: The Myth of 100% Utilization. This myth has always been a problem. It’s even more of a problem now as more organizations transition to agile. People need time to think. … Continue reading →

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Leadership, Management, Transitioning to Agile

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Johanna

I’ve been working with several management teams who want me to train them or their project managers to take over the agile training. It’s not unreasonable from their perspective—it’s how they’ve transitioned to all the other process improvement approaches over … Continue reading →

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Economics, Models, and Money

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Johanna

Israel Gat had a great Agile Cutter Advisor recently, the Friction of Agile (registration required). He discussed the friction of agile going up in geographically distributed teams because of the dis-economies of assimilation (the space-time continuum problem, and the issue … Continue reading →

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Reducing Your Own WIP and Yves’ Who Is Series

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Johanna

As a business owner, I have to remember to manage my own WIP, work in progress. Yves Hanoulle recently wrote about his own encounter with his wip limits, and what he decided to do it with respect to his “Who … Continue reading →

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New Manager, New Product Owner, Too Much Work

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Johanna

I recently spoke with a colleague who’s a little confused. John was just promoted to being the development manager in a small organization. He’s used to doing lots of work—whatever needs to be done, he does. Now, he’s managing 6 … Continue reading →

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Technical Debt: Do Managers (Unintentionally) Force Bad Code?

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Johanna

I still have estimation on the mind. I saw The Impact of Accidental Complexity on Estimates and I was wondering about the effect of management on bad code. Do managers sometimes force developers to write bad code by allowing technical … Continue reading →

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The Challenge of a Lightning Talk

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Johanna

I’m at Belgium Testing Days, and in about 90 minutes, I’ll be giving a lightning talk as part of a keynote. I  love lightning talks because I love to talk and I love the challenge of a 5-minute, go-for-broke, get-it-organized, … Continue reading →

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