Learn! Or How to Get a Better Job
A couple of days ago I had a chance to speak at a local meetup. It probably won’t come as a surprise that I was speaking on Kanban. In fact, it was a test run of one of my presentations I was...
View ArticleWhy You Should Know What EVM Is
I like recruiting developers. I mean I like it unless I overdose it but that’s a completely different story. Since I don’t verify candidates’ technical knowledge for years already, I usually focus on...
View ArticleLearn. Adapt. Experiment. Repeat.
One of recurring themes in my discussions on different methods and practices we use in our professional lives is: understand why and how the thing works so you can safely adjust it or substitute it...
View ArticleLean Kanban Southern Europe 2012
As a speaker I have sort of love hate relationship with events which are based mainly, or only, on speaker invitation, i.e. there’s no call for papers. On one hand it is usually ennobling to be...
View ArticleBetter Conferences or Better Learning?
Bob Marshall recently published his ideas how to improve conferences. Pretty radical ideas I’d say. Basically what Bob proposes is to move from traditional one-way communication to bi- or...
View ArticleHow Much Work In Progress Do You Have?
One of common patterns of adopting Kanban is that teams start just with visualization and, for whatever reasons, resist applying Work In Progress limits at the very beginning. While, and let me stress...
View ArticleAce Conference 2012
With each consecutive year I attend, and speak at, more and more different conferences and conference-like events. One of side effects of that is I have more insight how such events can be organized,...
View ArticleRadar Charts and Maturity of Kanban Implementations
One of outcomes of Hakan Forss’ session on depth of Kanban practices at the Kanban Leadership Retreat was the use of radar charts to show the maturity of a Kanban implementation. The whole discussion...
View ArticleRetrospectives Reloaded
I’ve read and heard a lot advice on running better retrospectives. I’d even go that far to say that if you speak at agile event and you want an instant hit “how to run a good retro” should be very...
View ArticleWhy People Don’t Learn
Josh Bradley in a comment under one of my older posts made me realize an interesting thing. Let me do the weirdest thing ever and quote myself a few times. “In general, people don’t care if you want...
View ArticleRecipes Are (Almost) Useless
One of the least useful pieces of advice you may ever get on management would go along the lines: “we’ve done such and such and it worked freaking miracles for us, thus you should do the same.” In...
View ArticlePractices, Principles, Values
I was never a fan of recipes. Even less so when I heard that I have to apply them by the book. What I found over years was that books rarely, if ever, describe a context that is close enough to mine....
View ArticleExperiment!
I have a question for you: when was the last time you did an experiment on work you do? I mean if you are a developer when did you try something new: new practice, new way of doing things, maybe new...
View ArticleLearn! Or How to Get a Better Job
A couple of days ago I had a chance to speak at a local meetup. It probably won’t come as a surprise that I was speaking on Kanban. In fact, it was a test run of one of my presentations I was...
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