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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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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…
6 years 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 …
6 years 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…
6 years ago
Thrashing vs Focus
Squirrel describes a client of his that is "thrashing"—trying to do so many different things that they aren't getting anything finished. We reflect o…
6 years ago
Fun as the Key Agile Metric, with Steve Berez
We're joined by Steve Berez, partner at Bain and co-author of Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos. Steve tells us some stories from his 3…
6 years, 1 month ago