A deep dive into an operational routine designed specifically to build that sustainable habit of improvement, the...
Podcast: Agile Plays
Episode 23 – The productivity illusion
Attempts to measure developer performance seem inevitably to lead to conflict. Why is productivity such a challenging...
Episode 22 – Lean, waste and bananas
Everything which aligns with the customer need is considered “Value”. The customer will pay for this because the...
Episode 21 – Management as a service?
Teams should be empowered to make decisions but will not be able to do this unaided. So we should look at what...
Episode 20 – A common language
It is critically important to get on top of the terminology used and ensure that there is enough consistency across...
Episode 19 – Managing debt
As argued by Cunningham, as soon as you deliver your first code, you have a set of implied commitments. From that...
Episode 18 – Feedback for Excellence
As leaders, we focus on feedback to help people to do better. But how should we deliver feedback to be most effective?
Episode 17 – Motivating Agile teams
Scientific Management sees workers as inherently unmotivated. Given an option the worker will avoid or minimise work....
Episode 16 – Groupthink and fiascoes
There is plenty of evidence that diversity of viewpoint, and not uniformity is what we need. Uniform teams can fail...