All my blogs are highly self-opinionated. This one is going to be even further out there. We have all hopefully had a good look at Daniel Pink’s amazing work on motivation. But despite this knowledge how do most organisations still currently manage motivation and performance? They almost always still have yearly bonuses. Maybe this is …
Indoctrination is the process of inculcating ideas, attitudes, cognitive strategies or a professional methodology (see doctrine). It is often distinguished from education by the fact that the indoctrinated person is expected not to question or critically examine the doctrine they have learned. Wikipedia Do we teach through repeated instructions? Yes, I see this often. Inculcating check. Do we present a vision of a practice or approach being positive or negative? Agile …
It was with some trepidation that I took at look at Seth Godin’s Tribes book. This was primarily due to mixed reports from friends whom had read it. It was so mixed that it was pretty evenly split down the middle 50% loved it, 50% hated it. Those that didn’t rate it felt that it …
Star Trek’s The Borg have a few things going for themselves. The first is that they ignore concepts/cultures/planets that are already well understood. They only seek that of which is new or different. I liken this to Alistair Cockburn’s Oath of Non-Allegiance: I promise not to exclude from consideration any idea based on its source, but to consider …
I was recently reading a thread on the Agile Alliance group on Linked In where Matthew Weaver was asking for some thoughts about why Waterfall is demeaned by those that follow Agile and Scrum. The thread to me got very interested when Scott Ambler brought some metrics to the argument. Challenged: A project is considered challenged …
Over ten years ago I vividly remember the first moment I saw ‘Safe to fail.’ I was working for a large scale telecommunications organisation. Most of us working there were pretty young. With our youth came inexperience. I learnt that through a project re-assignment I was going to have a new manager and was anxious of …
red tape — n obstructive official routine or procedure; time-consuming bureaucracy There are many corporate techniques out there that seek an approach to innovation by removing internal blockages and challenging existing paradigms. In Agile this is no different. Techniques within Kanban deal with removing blockages by visualising the blockers and limiting work in progress to force a …
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