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Changing Behaviour
Jeffrey is inspired by Jon Smart and the DOES Virtual conference to discuss homeostasis as a source of resistance to change, and Squirrel tells a cli…
5 years, 8 months ago
From Taylor to Toyota
Following last week's praise of Taylorism, a suitable approach for making complicated problems simple, this week we look at a similar revolution in d…
5 years, 8 months ago
In Praise of Taylor
Frederick Taylor gets a bad rap - even from us, as we had a lot to say in Agile Conversations about how his methods have been misapplied in "software…
5 years, 8 months ago
Conversational Dojos
Both of us learned to improve our conversations through regular practise with others - and today we describe how you can do that too, by organising a…
5 years, 8 months ago
How to Stop "Harping"
One of Squirrel's clients finds herself "harping on" a particular point in her technical team, and is frustrated that behaviour doesn't change. Squir…
5 years, 9 months ago
Your Team is Bigger Than You Think
Reacting to an insightful comment from Elisabeth Hendrickson, Squirrel and Jeffrey have a minor tussle over how to interpret the idea of "reflecting …
5 years, 9 months ago
A Horrible Story
A client tells Squirrel about a "horrible" meeting where his team accused him of pushing them to overwork and take shortcuts, but we discover it was …
5 years, 9 months ago
Agile Marie Kondo: The Shoe Principle
The Shoe Principle says that if you buy a pair of shoes, you have to get rid of one. We hadn't heard of it until a client brought it up as a way to i…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Two-Shirt Solution For Agile Chaos
Squirrel describes two shirts he makes for clients, the How Shirt and the What Shirt, that provide a brief and memorable description of the roles of …
5 years, 10 months ago
Chris Parsons: The Trouble with Training
We welcome agile thinker and experienced CTO Chris Parsons, whose blog Delivery Doubled makes the case that cookie-cutter agile approaches don't work…
5 years, 10 months ago