Michael Sahota04/17/13
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Temenos is also a philosophy and mindset. In brief, deep bonds and healing result from exploring each other’s personal history (how we became who we are) and visions (who we want to be). We use the conceptual model of a container to help us perceive and understand our relationship with ourself and others.
Peter Pilgrim04/17/13
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Sometimes, just when we are walking about and we feel everything is going smoothly, then the bottom drops out of the bucket, our world suddenly of positivity, in the situation, our lives, family and friends, takes a nose dive to the other side.
Allan Kelly04/16/13
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Companies believe that Developers will somehow comprehend what is needed from a simple statement. In the worst cases this is a condition I refer to as: “Requirements by Project Title”. Just because Developers understand the technology doesn’t mean they understand what is needed.
Roman Pichler04/16/13
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Agile product planning comprises three levels: vision, product strategy, and tactics. The vision is the overarching goal, the product strategy the path to the vision, and the tactics are the steps along the way, as the following diagram illustrates:
Michael Sahota04/16/13
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There is no single path or prescription for high-performance organizational culture. Increasingly companies are abandoning the traditional “modern management” practices developed for manufacturing and are moving to post-modern approaches that reflect the changing face of work and the needs of knowledge workers.
Esther Derby 04/16/13
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Many managers feel too busy to read. Many don’t have good role models within their companies. I meet many people in management roles who have never picked up a serious management book.
Esther Derby 04/15/13
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Managers of self-organizing teams need to discern when it’s time to step in and when to step back, allowing the team to solve the problem on its own. How do you know when a light touch is called for and when action is needed?
David Bland04/15/13
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A Business Model Canvas is an easy to use, lightweight and powerful tool for anyone looking to sketch out business models. It is quickly becoming the preferred strategic management tool for start-up organizations.
Johanna Rothman04/15/13
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Choosing to be a manager without being a leader is like choosing to drive across the country without a map. Choosing to be a leader without having management skills is like choosing to be a fish without gills. You have to know where you’re going, and you have to know how to breathe in your environment.
Olga Kouzina04/14/13
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TargetProcess 2.24.0 includes quite a few small and big improvements. Check what we’ve done to help you work better, faster, more comfortably. These include Fast Search, Relations Network, new Visual Reports, 60 custom fields, History API.
Esther Derby 04/13/13
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Life is too short to let the people we work with fray our nerves. We can’t change those irritating people, but we can recognize the source of our irritation and change our own response.
Tobias Mayer04/13/13
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Procrastinating this evening, I got lost in a long stream of tweets about timeboxing, fascinated at how much disdain was aimed at a simple unit of time, and how it was blamed for sloppy workmanship, poor quality, panic and many other dysfunctional behaviors.
Johanna Rothman04/12/13
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Over on agileconnection, a user asked about a self-assessment tool for measuring agile maturity. That’s not exactly the right question, because agile transition is a journey, not a destination. But, I can understand why he asked the question. I tried to be helpful. I supplied a set of questions to ask.
Zac Gery04/12/13
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In the article, "Psychology and the Agile Methodology," the concept of embracing failure was put under the microscope. In summary, although agile encourages failing fast and often, this can be a difficult concept for people to accept.
Michael Sahota04/12/13
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I’m writing about a talk given by Paul Hodgetts at Agile 2009 called “ScrumMasters Considered Harmful – Where Did We Go Wrong?”
Gil Zilberfeld04/11/13
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TDD makes you think before you write code. In fact, next time somebody asks you what TDD stands for, you answer: Thinking-Driven Development.
Michael Sahota04/11/13
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Relatedness is the heart of high-performing teams and organizations. As stated in the Agile Manifesto, focus on “Individuals and Interactions” is essential. How we relate to ourselves and others is central to creating and maintaining effective and valuable systems.
Ian Mitchell04/11/13
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A great many liberties are taken with Product Ownership. It is not always the case that the most suitable person takes on the role. In this article we look at what a Product Owner is meant to be, some of the antipatterns that arise in practice, and how ownership by proxy is used to try and balance competing real-world commitments and interests.
Johanna Rothman04/11/13
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I still have estimation on the mind. I saw The Impact of Accidental Complexity on Estimates and I was wondering about the effect of management on bad code. Do managers sometimes force developers to write bad code by allowing technical debt?
Venkatesh Kris...04/10/13
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All of you have probably heard the news involving the recent ban on larger soda sizes in New York and the subsequent un-banning. Have you come across situations where project teams have resisted changes suggested by their leader? To add another twist, what if the teams were self-organizing, as in the agile world?
Tom Howlett04/10/13
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The purpose of a Silo is to protect the contents from being disturbed or damaged from external foreign bodies. Creating a Silo is reasonable if you are the farmer protecting your grain from insects but surely they are not necessary in an organisation where we should be supporting each other?
Derik Whittaker04/10/13
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We gave using the git support in TFS the old college try but the friction and issues were just too much so we decided to move our repository over to github. I am not going to go over our issues w/ TFS git here, but I am thinking of creating a separate post for it.
Justin Bozonier04/09/13
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A New Hope Software Craftsmanship, SOLID principles, eXtreme Programming, the list of all the “best practice” guides I’ve learned over the years goes on and on. But they also need to make room for a new style of development being ushered in by the ideas expressed in The Lean Startup.
Johannes Brodwall04/09/13
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How do you start an agile project and ensure room for future enhancements? How can we achieve flexibility at the beginning? This is my answer.
Jurgen Appelo04/09/13
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What scientists call distributed control is usually called empowerment by management consultants. However, some experts don’t like the term. The word seems to suggest that people are “disempowered” by default and need to be “empowered” by their managers.
