You have heard it before: “When will it be done?” Earlier this year, I was coaching a team who frequently got this question from their product owner (PO). The PO was unhappy with the lead times, and wanted better predictability. The team didn’t really understand the problem, because most tasks were completed within just a fewContinue reading “When will it be done?”
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One week in the staging environment
Some things are hard to change. A policy that seems to haunt me is that you must stabilize (or harden) a release candidate for a certain period of time (for instance in the staging environment), before you can deploy it in production. Last week I tweeted: If no work is done on a system inContinue reading “One week in the staging environment”
Dealing with large tasks
Are you facing a large and complex task? Sometimes it’s hard to even get started, right? A natural response would be to start analyzing the task searching for the most efficient way to deal with it. But it’s easy to over engineer a solution, and for me this is never the most efficient approach. IContinue reading “Dealing with large tasks”
Effective meetings – is it possible?
How does the culture in your organization go along with possibility of achieving effective meetings? A month back I wrote a post at the company blog about this, why it might be difficult, and how to improve it. If you understand Norwegian you can read it here:https://blogg.bekk.no/er-effektive-m%C3%B8ter-i-det-hele-tatt-mulig-i-din-organisasjon-6fa94e8f19a9 Disclaimer: This blogpost was originally published on aContinue reading “Effective meetings – is it possible?”
Agile and congruent leadership
You’re a leader in your organization, and you want to improve efficiency. You think you want an “agile transformation”, because you heard others have been successful with it. Then remember this:Agile is not just a label you just put on the development department. Agile is a behavior and should affect everything you do. So ifContinue reading “Agile and congruent leadership”
Talking with carpenters
We are currently renovating an entire floor at home, and yesterday I tweeted about a Kanban board I put up for my carpenters. This was only meant as a “joke”, of course, but it generated some feedback and therefore, upon request, I share the board with you: The intention was not to create a complete workContinue reading “Talking with carpenters”
One word: Feedback
With all the different management models out there, chances are you’ve come across a model that can help you solve or improve a particular problem. From a bird’s perspective, they might look simple, but to fully grasp how to apply them in your organization, you need a deeper understanding than you can get from only reading aContinue reading “One word: Feedback”
How to boost your personal productivity? (English version)
A while ago, I wrote a blog post in Norwegian about how to improve your personal productivity, by combining Personal Kanban and Pomodoro. This blog post was recently published as an article, in English, by ProgramUtvikling in their magazine – The Developer (No 1, 2012). Read the full article: Take a look, and let me know what you think! Page 1:Continue reading “How to boost your personal productivity? (English version)”
Exploring WIP limits
A few months back I was involved in a highly developer centric project (very unlike my current project). Non-developers were basically only involved and available upon request, so most of the time the team was not very cross-functional. The team was using Scrum at the time, but the flow obviously had a few glitches andContinue reading “Exploring WIP limits”
A simple tip for more efficient standups
A while ago, I was asked for advice on how a team could improve efficiency on standup meetings. The team was growing, and their standups were taking an increasingly amount of time. I didn’t have much time looking into why this happened, so I simply suggested they could try walk the board instead of using the traditional Scrum meeting.Continue reading “A simple tip for more efficient standups”
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