Let’s assume you have two teams. One team consists of people who run faster than the people on the other team. Rather, they run significantly faster. Which team will win in a relays race? Why? At our work places, do we strive to make it useful for people to cooperate, so that we can be more productive and stand a greater chance to win? Should we aim for clarity or be ok with fuzziness? Which one will lead to higher productivity? Here’s a fascinating TED talk (text transcript and video).
Organisational change happens at much slower pace than hoped for. It is more painful than anticipated. How to make change less scary? How to remain aware of the past, present and enable change moving forward? Esther Derby distills successful transformation into Six Rules for Change. An interesting read (and video interview).
Agile adoption in the development and IT organisations has gained significant momentum. It’s safe to assume that it has hit mainstream, and has crossed the chasm in Geoffrey Moore’s term. But what about Agile adoption across the enterprise? Has the Agile adoption crossed the chasm across the enterprise? Have a look.
Well, we have yet another canvass – the personal Agility canvass. It makes us think about the value proposition of the Agile initiative and the environment we operate in. It helps is focus on how we are going to interact with others and what fears and concerns are in play? Sounds interesting, right? Here’s how you can use it.
Paper prototypes allow teams to iterate quickly on the design, and find the best-of-breed with minimal investment. It is quick, fun, and easy to learn. Here’s a look at how Mozilla used paper prototyping, combined it with user research and data mining to quickly advance the UX redesign of a major part of its website.
It’s difficult to avoid scope creep. Market changes. Customers change their mind. We understand the product better as the time goes by. Thus scope changes. It’s inevitable. How do we deal with it? Here are four handy tips. Coming from Atlasssian, these come with a healthy dose of Jira. The concepts are applicable whether you use Jira or not.
How do you manage projects using Lean? Or do you even care about projects in the traditional sense in Lean at all? Fitting project based thinking into Lean can be dangerous. How can Flow help us tackle problems steeped in project based thinking? Here’s quick read.
How does devops impact test environments, automated build and deployment? It strives to automate most of it. But does that mean we don’t need testing, or the need for testing skill set reduces? What are the impacts of devops on testing? Have a look.
TEAMS
Why Don’t People Cooperate in Organisations?
AGILE
Six Handy Rules for Change
Has Agile Crossed the Chasm?
How Does Personal Agility Canvass Work?
PRODUCT OWNER
How to Deal With Inevitable Scope Creep?
LEAN
Traditional Vs Lean Management
TESTING, DEVOPS
How DevOps Impacts Testing?
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