Sunday, August 11, 2024

Do we need to get rid of the “Magic –or Iron– Triangle”?

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Fast, good and cheap – choose any two. – internet proverb Or, according to another source > SPEED, QUALITY, PRICE – Pick any Two >...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

A minimum setup for planning?

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“Without planning we would fall right back to being hunters and gatherers again” -- someone on the internet The gist of it (aka TL;DR)...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Decoding Service Levels: Rethinking SLO, SLE, SLA, and SLM

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Language creates reality, and when in comes to the delivery capabilities of organization the language around service levels sometimes makes ...
Wednesday, November 08, 2023

What’s the «Minimum» in MVP (Minumun Viable Product) anyways?

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“There can only be one!” (Or not?) At least one of my friends gets “all highlander” on people who try to talk about having defined the MVP ...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

How can I rent a 50 foot yacht (or get a job as a scrum master) if I have no experience? You shouldn’t!

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Recently, a successful speaker and trainer –whom I also happen to know personally– posted a (German) article on linkedIn, where he “replied”...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

Coach? Consultant? Trainer?

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Language is a funny thing. As philosopher Wittgenstein said "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." 1 Or, to ta...
Sunday, May 08, 2022

«Creating Feedback Loops» is not about having meetings

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In many modern approaches to work, like The Kanban Method , Lean Startup , Agile Software Development , or DevOps , Feedback is an essenti...
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Sunday, March 13, 2022

Three strategies to ease the meeting pain

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“Since we started the new approach, I hardly ever get any work done, because we have so many meetings.” That is a sentiment, I here quite of...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Unplanned work is killing us – really?

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One of the things I often hear teams complain about is the amount of unplanned work they have to handle. Drowning in irrefutable small requ...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Is the user story overrated? Some story patterns and formats to learn from

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The term “User Story” or simply “Story” as a shorthand for a requirement has become quite widespread these days. But what does it actually m...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

There is no Agile Manifesto

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Just a little reminder: what many people nowadays think is a way of living or even a way of designing whole organisations was originally som...
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Sunday, May 16, 2021

The difference between acceptance criteria and the definition of done

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When it comes to building things, we often want to know when it's really done. Two terms have gained popularity over the last couple of ...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

Options can be expensive -- not only at the stock market

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What do you actually get, when you buy a cinema ticket? (In those ancient times when cinemas were still a thing) You buy yourself an opti...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

How to do physical {Kanban|Task|Scrum} boards virtually

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As I’ve mentioned earlier most of the time it is a good idea to start visualization with a physical board. And very often it is a good ide...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

The benefits of continuous blocker clustering

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If you manage your work by using some kind of visualization, the chances are high that you also visualize your blockages. One of the most...