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| Related DevelopMentor Courses | MORE | | 10 Things to make you Agile adoption successfull On his blog Ken Schwaber says he doesn’t remember this and instead suggests only 30% will become “excellent development organizations.” And I fluffed it, despite having written a book on the subject I didn’t have a quick answer to hand. You can read the books, you can experiment, you can go on courses. Reading books works for some people but most books go unread, or the words go in one eye and out the other. What I find interesting about this quote is that it aligns with many other change management studies. Either way, the prognosis isn’t optimistic. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, May 14, 2012 Unspoken Cultural differences in Agile & Scrum The teams I’ve seen in Scandinavia, and to a lesser degree Holland and the UK, don’t need big lectures in self-organization, left to themselves they do most of it. In the original book of Extreme Programming Kent Beck talked of a “sustainable pace” and “40 hour work week”. Now lets talk about the big one: Self-Organizing teams and evil managers. Apologies if this comes across as Scrum bashing, I believe Scrum works, or at least Scrum-lite works, and I believe self-organization is best. Some Scrum courses and advocates make a big thing out of self-organization. Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, October 31, 2012 |
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | Unspoken Cultural differences in Agile & Scrum The teams I’ve seen in Scandinavia, and to a lesser degree Holland and the UK, don’t need big lectures in self-organization, left to themselves they do most of it. In the original book of Extreme Programming Kent Beck talked of a “sustainable pace” and “40 hour work week”. Now lets talk about the big one: Self-Organizing teams and evil managers. Apologies if this comes across as Scrum bashing, I believe Scrum works, or at least Scrum-lite works, and I believe self-organization is best. Some Scrum courses and advocates make a big thing out of self-organization. Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, October 31, 2012 10 Things to make you Agile adoption successfull On his blog Ken Schwaber says he doesn’t remember this and instead suggests only 30% will become “excellent development organizations.” And I fluffed it, despite having written a book on the subject I didn’t have a quick answer to hand. You can read the books, you can experiment, you can go on courses. Reading books works for some people but most books go unread, or the words go in one eye and out the other. What I find interesting about this quote is that it aligns with many other change management studies. Either way, the prognosis isn’t optimistic. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, May 14, 2012 Getting Things Done with Backpack and 37Signals How should I organize my pages? If you haven't started using GTD yet, I recommend that you read the book. [Note: You can download this post as a PDF.]. Here's an article about Getting Things Done and how I use Backpack from 37Signals to make it happen. I've recently taken on some roles where I have a lot more loose-ends in my life and adopting Getting Things Done (GTD) has really helped manage everything. I'm also a huge fan of the 37Signals suite of products ( Backpack , Basecamp , etc). So using 37Signals to implement Getting Things Done (GTD) was the obvious choice for me. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Sunday, January 30, 2011 | -
| The Best from DevelopMentor | MORE | - Make strategy like you make software?
We embed our knowledge in our code so our organisations can operate: whether it is the Galileo booking system, Google’s Adwords or Unilever’s ERP system the capabilities and limitations of our IT systems are also the capabilities and limitations of our organizations. As Cynthia Rettig argued in her Sloan Review piece, the limitations imposed by an ERP system impose costs on organization and limits on what they can do. There is an interesting piece in the latest issue of the MIT Sloan Review entitled: Should you build strategy like you build software? Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - Change models: Shook, Schein, Dreyfus and Constructivism
And deeper still is a learning organization, a team or unit that is continually learning and changing. Only later, are teams expected to reflect and modify their models - moving down the triangle/pyramid, moving from XP to Agile, to Lean, to a Learning Organization. Indeed, I think I wrote a book about that! Continuing on from my opening comments in the last entry, “Why forecasts fail: simple ones are better ”. The other article which was good in the latest MIT Sloan Management Review was John Shook’s piece on change. His change model complements my own ideas well. Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, March 21, 2010 - 10 Things to make you Agile adoption successfull
On his blog Ken Schwaber says he doesn’t remember this and instead suggests only 30% will become “excellent development organizations.” And I fluffed it, despite having written a book on the subject I didn’t have a quick answer to hand. You can read the books, you can experiment, you can go on courses. Reading books works for some people but most books go unread, or the words go in one eye and out the other. What I find interesting about this quote is that it aligns with many other change management studies. Either way, the prognosis isn’t optimistic. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, May 14, 2012 - Two of the technical presentations at ACCU - and the A, B, and C of speakers
The ACCU is a technical organization - people join because it has a technical focus. These guys are making the transition from ‘C’ to ‘B’ list in my book. Best of all, this is the ACCU developing talent, this is ACCU giving people space and time to stretch themselves and its why I’ll stick by the organization as I move further and further away from programming But actually the secret of the ACCU is that it is really about developing people. One of the ways we help people develop themselves is by giving them opportunities. And then we have the ‘C’ list. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - Getting Things Done with Backpack and 37Signals
How should I organize my pages? If you haven't started using GTD yet, I recommend that you read the book. [Note: You can download this post as a PDF.]. Here's an article about Getting Things Done and how I use Backpack from 37Signals to make it happen. I've recently taken on some roles where I have a lot more loose-ends in my life and adopting Getting Things Done (GTD) has really helped manage everything. I'm also a huge fan of the 37Signals suite of products ( Backpack , Basecamp , etc). So using 37Signals to implement Getting Things Done (GTD) was the obvious choice for me. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Sunday, January 30, 2011 - Are there any System Analysts out there?
ve looked and I’ve asked and the role seems to have disappeared from organizations. Later in the book he gives the list of the objectives of system analysis: 1. Has anyone met a System Analysts lately? ask because I’ve been looking for over a year and can’t find one. should say immediately I’m not looking to hire one, rather I want to find out what they do. Or rather, perhaps I should say the title has disappeared; the role still exists in some places, for better or worse. I’ve run this idea past a number of people in the last year and I’ve yet to have anyone seriously disagree. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - Unspoken Cultural differences in Agile & Scrum
The teams I’ve seen in Scandinavia, and to a lesser degree Holland and the UK, don’t need big lectures in self-organization, left to themselves they do most of it. In the original book of Extreme Programming Kent Beck talked of a “sustainable pace” and “40 hour work week”. Now lets talk about the big one: Self-Organizing teams and evil managers. Apologies if this comes across as Scrum bashing, I believe Scrum works, or at least Scrum-lite works, and I believe self-organization is best. Some Scrum courses and advocates make a big thing out of self-organization. Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, October 31, 2012 %>
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