Decision filters are a useful technique for sharing strategies, objectives, or intents with those who have to act to make them happen. I explain more about this technique in this post.
My New Years Resolution – Help Find a Cure for T1D
I’m resolving to kick off a campaign to raise funds to find a cure for Type 1 Diabetes. Read more to find out how you can help.
Thoughts on Building Business Capability
A week after the Building Business Capability Conference in Fort Lauderdale, I thought I’d share some of the emergent themes I picked up and some thoughts looking forward.
Body Language and Presidential Debates
Body language is a big part of communication, but should it play a big part in making critical decisions, like who the next President of the United States should be?
Do we really have to create new labels?
We have a tendency to create new labels for concepts that are similar to, but slightly different than existing concepts. Some of these labels include Scrum, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Feature Injection. Are these labels helpful? I’m not so sure they always are.
Treat Email Like a Standup
Don’t get pulled into lengthy email conversations. Treat them like conversations that come up in standup meetings.
Scrum is a subset of agile, not an alternative.
It’s not agile/scrum, it’s not agile and scrum or agile or scrum, it’s just agile.
Agile 2012 Tuesday Thoughts
With my work done, I spent Tuesday attending sessions and acting as the prodigal product owner at the Agile Philanthropy Dev Lab. Here are some summaries of the sessions I attended, including Bob Sutton’s Keynote, a great talk on BDD, and a discussion around why the Product Owner Idea is not such a good one.
Agile 2012 Monday Thoughts
A few thoughts from the sessions I attended on the first day of Agile 2012. These sessions discussed how to determine whether projects are worth it, and how to improve communication and collaboration through improv.