I’m a big fan of Manager Tools. I’ve been listening to the podcast and recommending it to anyone, manager or not, for the last five years. A recurring topic in the podcast is Manager Tools co-founder Mark Horstman’s laws: It’s all about people More communication is better. And there are more, and I invite you
In my last post “What’s next for Agile?”, I talked about alignment between the development team and the business, from the customer focus perspective. As I was watching “Agile is dead, long live agile” presentation by Jeff Sutherland, from Oredev 2010, I felt I needed to add something. When does agile work? According to Jeff,
Is man destined to choose the quick and dirty road, throwing away long term benefits? While the answer is probably yes (we’re all lazy like that), two dissimilar events in the last week made me think – maybe that’s not the right question. Maybe we need to check how long term are we talking about.
So a minute after I’m tossed into the ClearCase mix here’s what happens: We are opening a channel to our partners in the company’s headquarters to work on the server. ClearCase being what it is, it looked like a small task but grew into a large one. Most of the chages were done by TesCom,
So now we’re after the second (and final) part of the management review. The second meeting was different than the first one. On the first one, the PMs were active (in a defensive way, mind you). This time they were more quiet. I know the feeling from past meetings like this: I want out, the
And I presented the different statistics and everyone asked for forgiveness and changed their way immediately. Not. (Did you expect otherwise?) There’s a general feeling that things are not going well (discussing the results with the PMs prior to the meeting helped alleviate “unpleasant” surprises, and everyone knew what’s going to be displayed). The mood
I listen to podcasts on my commute which is currently ~1.5 hrs a day. In addition, another 3 hours during workout. A small calculation I did a few weeks ago – In the year and a half I’ve been doing this, I learned the equivalent of a very stacked semester! That’s a lot. First and
We had a strategic meeting today, where I was asked to present how we can sell our software process expertise to clients within the company. This means that we would consult how to build a software development process in one of the departments in the global company. I presented the basic agile process as a
Roy wrote about tips for a successful team lead. These are things you can start implementing tomorrow morning. I think the Demo is great to create a constraint for the team. James Shore talked about that in his pre-published agile book. I would also add time-boxing with short iterations. When the time to release is