For a while now I have been discombombulated. The cause of my confusion and desperation has been around the issue of management. I am not talking about Leadership. Leaders are people (whether in a position of hierarchy or not) that naturally foster an environment of collaboration, understanding and consensus. No, what I am talking about …
It all started with a problem with the way we were doing software development. Projects took years with “phases” such as Requirements, Design, Development and System Testing taking six months each. We used to create thud factors where our value was determined by how much the table shook as we laid down our documents that …
When massive multiplayer online gamers work together as a team (called “Raids”) to defeat fantasy targets (called “Bosses”) they are repeatedly performing the steps of a Lean Startup – Build, Measure and Learn. For raiders, “build” is working together to achieve the desired outcome of defeating the boss. They have a meta hypothesis – that …
I wrote a little while ago about Gamification in Software Development and how it relates to Agile. Within that blog I said that I would get back to explaining Achievements more. And so here it is. Well, actually there it is. When I originally started to write about Achievements and just how powerful they are …
Moneyball has been credited within the Lean Startup community as a classic example of some of their principles. I thought for those who haven’t had an opportunity to watch it that I would note some of the more powerful statements made in the movie. Some are slightly modified to apply outside of baseball so that …
There is a growing trend within the Scrum community that believe when they are doing software development that it is actually product development. This is not the case. Software development is subset of work that is needed to be done to support product development. In small organizations the deviation between software and product development might …
I have just finished reading “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries for the second time and have been spending some time working with a team using the model. Joyfully it has made me think about opportunities out there and if I ever had my own push to be entrepreneurial what exactly I would consider. As …
I have been pondering since reading Steve Denning’s on Fighting the Kool-Aid of Stock Based Compensation and Umair Haque’s Harvard Business Review’s The Economic Roots of your Life Crisis about perilous journey that we might be on. Take a step back for a moment and consider some cause and effect. When my parents worked it was …
When people think of the term ‘gamer’ it engenders ideas of pasty white teenagers living their days in a zombie like state in the basement of their parents house spending over forty hours a week with their eyes glued to the pixels on their screen smashing keys on their keyboard. Despite this stereotype, 72% of …
Over the weeks we have had considerable deep dives into Scrum and how it has evolved over the last ten years. The first week we looked it at a high level, then we had a look at the roles, ceremonies and artifacts. Now we have the opportunity to see how it has not evolved. It …
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