A journey of friends
As 2011 draws to a close is with considerable sadness that I bid farewell to both Carlo and Marius, who have both chosen to pursue new opportunities. Marius has taken a big leap, deciding to settle in Vancouver. Here is his story in his own …
Using Open Space as a retrospective format
I was lucky enough to attend the Orlando Scrum Gathering in March this year, and even luckier to hear Harrison Owen talk about Open Space and then to have him facilitate the Open Space at the Gathering. As he was introducing the days event, I …
TED talk on motivation
Watch and listen as Dan Pink tells us what we already know in our hearts: extrinsic motivators are ineffective for complex work!
Running, tested features revisited
Five years ago, almost to the day, Ron Jeffries wrote a great post entitled “A Metric Leading to Agility“. In it he coined the term “Running Tested Features”. More recently he has talked about another helpful metric for teams transitioning to Agile. It is “Running …
The end of an era
As Lean enthusiasts might be tempted to celebrate the demise of General Motors and the assumption by Toyota of the #1 auto maker rank, James P. Womack* gives us pause to think about the end of an era. *Author of “The Machine That Changed the …
