Inspiring the World with Innovation
David Anderson distills his software management learnings down into four bullets: Focus on Quality Reduce Work-in-progress Balance capacity against demand Prioritize He names this set a recipe for success. Here’s what the recipe mean to me. Focus on Quality For me, focusing on quality means pushing quality upstream, and choosing quality over scope or quantity. …
These are five questions I find help understand where a team is at in terms of their ability to achieve their goals effectively: We have capability do we have capacity? We have capacity do we have capability? We have capacity and capability, do we have throughput? We have capability, capacity and throughput, do we have …
“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.” — Vincent Van Gogh I find myself mentoring on Agile practices and Agile methodology on a regular basis. More and more teams are needing to stay connected with customers, respond to change, and flow value along the …
I’ve been asked to do a lot of Agile retrospectives around Microsoft over the years. I don’t know how it started, but it started several years ago when somebody recommended that I lead a retrospective for their team, and then it caught fire from there. In this post, I’ll share a simple recipe you can …
You can think of a role as a group of related tasks, activities, and responsibilities. By knowing the responsibilities and core types of activities up front, you can help make sure you have the right people on the team so that you can achieve project success in a healthy and sustainable way. Design, Development and …
