Scientific Management sees workers as inherently unmotivated. Given an option the worker will avoid or minimise work....
Podcast: Agile Plays
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...
Episode 15 – Timebox don’t scopebox
“Timeboxing” is the use of time periods for development which are fixed independent of the progress made. These are...
Episode 14 – Keep the focus
A key barrier to effective delivery is teams working on multiple items at once. A highly tuned team will focus on a...
Episode 13 – Value not just content
If we understand how the business functions, we can extend from the development flow to looking at the flow of value...
Episode 12 – Managing risk
no-one would approach projects without a healthy amount of risk management. Let us look at how risk management in...
Episode 11 – Learning and growing
you need a pathway for change which listens to individuals and captures ideas. Agile uses the term “Retrospective”...
Episode 10 – Achieving self-management
To be effective as an Agile organization, we need to make teams the primary unit by which development works. As a...
Episode 9 – Are estimates needed?
Can we avoid estimation entirely? It’s a topic which gets lively debate. To many people with a classical project...