June 2009 - Posts
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In the past several blog-entries I've been focusing on the agile principle of self-organization, what it means, and what it implies for teams. So far, I've written about Agile Self-Organization versus Lean Leadership , Self-Organization and Complexity...
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The previous blog-entry on self-organization was lots of jargon and technical mumbo jumbo that didn't say too much about what that means for teams of people. So let's shift from talking about self-organizing systems in complexity science to talking...
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In my previous blog-entry I talked a little about how self-organization is a key aspect of software agility . I'd like to explore exactly what self-organization is a bit more in this posting. Self-organization comes from complexity science and the...
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Getting back to the agility cycle ... recall that I started with the business agility cycle and used that to derive the software agility cycle . There isn't a great deal of difference between the first two steps of the business-agility cycle and the...
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I'm sure I'm not the first person to think it, but I just came across the description of a newly published book whose title made me think about this subject. The book is: Reading Minds and Markets: Minimizing Risk and Maximizing Returns in a Volatile...
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Interesting article in BusinessWeek from Jim Collins on the Dynamics of Team-Leadership Behavior . It's actually an excerpt from his latest book " How the Mighty Fall: and Why Some Companies Never Give In ." Anyway ... the Dynamics of Team...
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Gosh, when I write/say the titles of these two books together in one line it looks like the title of some kind of computer-geek romance novella. (maybe it will sell more books that way :-) Anyway, I'm mentioning these two books together because they...
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The other day I was trying to explain to someone the properties of code that is well-factored and found myself using aliteration with 'S' words. That made me wonder if they were equivalent to Lean's "5S", which is as follows: Seiri...
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Some of you may recall some earlier blog-entries of mine on the topic of trust: Trust: The social virtues and the creation of prosperity by Francis Fukuyama More Articles on Trust Building Trust: In Business, Poliotics, Relationship and Life by Solomon...
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I came across an interesting book in Borders over the weekend, but didn't have the time to browse it more thoroughly. A few hours later, at home, I looked it up on Amazon.com . I found the description and review comments very interesting, and found...
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I submit that any project which successfully executes their practices in accordance with Agile values and principles will exhibit the following key traits (Note the acronym formed): Adaptive -- responsive to change (based on feedback and learning), rather...
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I participated in a LinkedIn CM group discussion about Building Code before -vs- after Checkin. The discussion was kicked-off by Tracy Ragan, COO and Co-Founder, OpenMake Software : Many companies implementing a distributed SCM process make the mistake...
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Part 1 of this series presented the Business Agility Cycle and from that derived the Software Agility Cycle in Part 2. Then part 3 elaborated upon the first step of that cycle, sensing the need for change using feedback-loops at all levels of scale. In...
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I reviewed Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams for the May 2009 issue of The Agile Journal The book is exactly what its title says, and should quickly become “the bible” for all would-be agile testers. Right from the start it...
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