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Predictability - Productivity Axis
You can invest a lot of your time in making your software delivery predictable (a la NASA) or in making your team productive (a la early stage startu…
7 years ago
Learning Faster by Failing More
How are you briefing your team? What measurements are you using to help them learn? Today, we discuss cases where giving the team incentives to make …
7 years ago
Briefing and Back Briefing
Today we describe a technique for avoiding micromanagement and promoting autonomy - first pioneered by the Prussian military! We describe how briefin…
7 years ago
Why Can't We Ship Today?
Today we relate three great stories we heard or told at CITCON in Ghent, all starting with different answers to Jeffrey's question, "Why can't we shi…
7 years ago
Values of the Give Up Control Model
After the Mutual Learning and Unilateral Control models, this week we examine one more model for working with your team, perhaps the easiest: giving …
7 years, 1 month ago
Values of the Unilateral Control Model
After our series on mutual learning values, we look at those of an alternative, the Unilateral Control Model, which match our default behaviour but d…
7 years, 1 month ago
Mutual Learning Model: Accountability and Compassion
Third in our series on using the Mutual Learning Model to improve your agile team. We look at accountability as a frightening prospect and as a route…
7 years, 1 month ago
Mutual Learning Model: Transparency and Curiosity
Agile teams do better, we find, when they are transparent ("here's what I did last sprint") and curious ("what business problem are you trying to sol…
7 years, 1 month ago
Mutual Learning Model: Informed Choice
First of a series on using the Mutual Learning Model to get better results in your agile team. Today, why informed choice can help us avoid mistakes …
7 years, 2 months ago
Meeting "The Business"
When your team talks about "what the business wants", do they know who they mean? Do they have evidence for the wishes of this amorphous group? It's …
7 years, 2 months ago