I'm experimenting with audio and video. So I started a podcast called, “60 Seconds of Johanna's WIP.”
Listen here:
If you want to listen through your podcast app, go to 60 Seconds of Johanna's WIP September 29, 2023.
I will also add those videos to my YouTube channel.
The plan—and I use that term quite loosely—is to release 60 seconds of something I'm writing every week. I hope to maintain that cadence of always publishing on Thursday evenings. I will see how often life gets in the way.
Here's something funny. In the writing community, we talk about WIP as a “Work in Progress,” but all the unfinished writing is a WIP. In the agile/lean communities, we talk about WIP as all the work in progress for the person, team, and organization.
A small difference.
I'm committing to myself to do these recordings until the end of the year, and then reassess. Do let me know if you have an opinion.
The Transcript:
The transcript:
I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is 60 Seconds of WIP for September 29, 2023, where I read an excerpt that I hope is just a minute of some book in progress.
This excerpt is from the Project Lifecycles book:
… every week or two, I read a blog post somewhere about how “agile” is terrible. That's because many organizations use a two-week iteration as a death march for the team. The teams rightly feel they must deliver a finished product every two weeks. And they don't have time to think about and make critical decisions, such as for the UI or the architecture.
Worse, because teams are in a death march, they don't have time to integrate customer feedback into their product development. And don't get me started on trying to measure individual “productivity” or “velocity.”
None of that is an agile approach. It's jamming traditional thinking into “agile” ideas—that proverbial square box into a round hole. These organizations create fake agility, and the teams pay for it.
No wonder people think “agile” is a bad word. That's agility in name, not in action.