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Tag Archives: management
Reducing Your Own WIP and Yves’ Who Is Series
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
Posted in agile, lean
Tagged management, program management, project management, transparency
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New Manager, New Product Owner, Too Much Work
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
Posted in agile
Tagged management, one-on-one, product owner, project management, project portfolio, transition to agile
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Technical Debt: Do Managers (Unintentionally) Force Bad Code?
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
The Challenge of a Lightning Talk
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 100% utilization, lightning talk, management, technical debt, testing
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Measure Throughput, Not Utilization
My column on Stickyminds is up: Measure Throughput, Not Utilization. Enjoy!
Assessing Your Team State
I’ve been working with teams and been a part of teams my entire work life. Not so much at university, but certainly when I started working professionally. I’ve been confused by what some people claim are self-organizing teams. To me, … Continue reading
Managers New to Agile May Not Know What to Do
I’ve been working with several clients on their transition to agile. Yes, the technical staff needs training. Yes, they often need coaching on how to choose small chunks, estimate and commit to an iteration’s worth of work, and then to … Continue reading
Functional Managers Acting as Scrum Masters: Not a Good Idea
I often meet people who are transitioning to agile, and they decided to pick Scrum, because it’s a helpful project management framework. Ok, that makes sense. But then they decide that they no longer need project managers, and that the … Continue reading
Agile Managers: The Essence of Leadership
I wrote an article for Cutter IT Journal, called “Agile Managers: The Essence of Leadership.” Cutter has made the entire issue available for free (registration required). See here. If you have comments, please leave them here. I will be posting … Continue reading
Wage Cost and Project Labor Cost
I’ve been working with teams who want to move to agile. Some people on their teams are in another location, where the salaries are cheaper. It’s difficult to get agile started with a geographically distributed team. If everyone’s distributed, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in agile
Tagged dispersed, management, project management, team, transition to agile
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