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AgileIndyConf Slides Posted: Agile Managers Essence of Leadership
I spoke at AgileIndyConf last week. I had a blast. Met lots of great people from Indianapolis, got to hang with people like Christopher Avery (@christopheraver), Ron Jeffries (@ronjeffries), Chet Hendrickson (@chethendrickson), Angela Harms (@angelaharms), Mike Kelly (@ michael_d_kelly), Joe … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, Behind Closed Doors, coaching, influence, leadership, management, servant leadership
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Pragmatic Manager: Great People Create Great Products Posted
My most recent Pragmatic Manager newsletter, Great People Create Great Products is up for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! Do you subscribe to my newsletter? As you can tell, I don’t get around to posting them right away. My subscribers learn … Continue reading
Agile is Not for Everyone
Someone asked me again about self-assessments for their agile transition. That got me thinking about this problem of transitioning to agile. I don’t believe agile is for everyone in every circumstance. Some people claim agile has “crossed the chasm.” Certainly, … Continue reading
Working Long? Rethink Why
Are you working long? My column, Management Myth 10: I can Measure the Work by the Time People Spend at Work is posted today. People who work long hours think they also work hard. They are. But they are often … Continue reading
Posted in project management
Tagged data, experiment, fault feedback ratio, management, management myth, measurement
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We Cannot Choose Between Management And Leadership
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
Why Does Management Care About Velocity?
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
Posted in project management
Tagged agile, cumulative flow, estimation, Manage Your Project Portfolio, management, schedule games, velocity
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Management Myth About Experts Posted
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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Tagged management, management myth, project management, project portfolio management
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Management Myth, Myth of 100% Utilitization Posted
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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Tagged agile, Manage Your Project Portfolio, management, transition to agile
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Leadership, Management, Transitioning to Agile
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
Posted in agile
Tagged congruence, leadership, management, self-directed teams, transition to agile
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Economics, Models, and Money
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
