Kaizen – The Meaning and Power of Change
TLDR – Kaizen If you think you can make something better (in your personal life, within a team or a collection of systems you work on, a process in your company), do it. What is it? “Kaizen” is made up of […]
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Agile, Lean: What’s the Diff?
We often hear “Lean” and “Agile” together in the same breath. Are they the same? Or different? Lean originates from Lean Manufacturing, the Toyota Production System, aka the Toyota Kata. Lean is a set of principles for achieving quality, speed […]
Clean Feedback Wraps – Ideal for Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner
Feedback – it’s the breakfast (lunch and dinner) of champions, yet it’s not always easy to successfully deliver (or hear) constructive feedback. So instead of a praise sandwich, try a feedback wrap! The post Clean Feedback Wraps – Ideal for […]
Helping Team Members Stretch Their Communication Muscles: Kantor Four Player Model
It takes many different mindsets and behaviors to make a team hum. I am appreciating a view of collaborative behaviors developed by David Kantor (as part of his work on Structural Dynamics), and am finding it useful as a way […]
Understanding Agile Team Metrics: Measure Many Things
Hawthorn, Goodhart and Friedman Walk Into an Agile Team Room – What Happens Next Will Amaze You… Velocity is one of the most commonly used agile team metrics. Teams (and their stakeholders) often focus on “improving velocity” without either a […]
Agile Team Health & Morale Checks
A lot of companies experiment with ways of measuring and visualizing how their teams are doing (KPI’s; ROV’s, NPS, etc.,) looking for areas where there are opportunities for improvement. The general idea being ya can’t improve what ya don’t measure. […]