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Systems Thinking, The Vanguard Method and Software Development

February 25, 2010 - 7:58 pm

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I’ve recently read John Seddon’s “Freedom from Command and Control“, which introduces his approach to Systems Thinking – the Vanguard Method. A few key points really struck home with me and helped clarify my thoughts on some of the challenges I’ve come across recently.
First is the following simple diagram, which shows that Management is responsible [...]

LeanSSC Atlanta 2010 and other Conferences

February 24, 2010 - 12:59 pm

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I’ve just updated my Calendar page with where I’m speaking this year so far (or hoping to), and thought it would be worth adding some more details in a post.
The conference I’m most looking forward to is the inaugural LeanSSC Conference in Atlanta in April (21-23) which is the place to find out about “the [...]

Scrum Anti-Pattern: NOT Prioritising Stories Within Sprints

January 20, 2010 - 9:45 pm

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Craig Dickson has published an article on Agile DZone claiming that prioritising Stories with a Sprint is an anti-pattern. He blogged this in December last year, when I noticed it and grumbled on twitter, but no more. Now that its re-appeared on DZone I feel compelled to say something, and that it warrants a blog [...]

Process Safeguards and Ski Slopes

January 8, 2010 - 11:41 am

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One of the joys of working as a coach for EMC Consulting are the regular opportunities to have deep conversations on various topics with my colleagues when we are in the office together. For example, earlier this week myself and Simon Bennett began to discuss way of talking to our clients about process such [...]

Fidelity – The Lost Dimension of the Iron Triangle

December 22, 2009 - 4:53 pm

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One the topics that I find a lot of people find particularly interesting and useful is that of Fidelity in software. This generally comes up while I’m talking about incrementing and iterating, and the difference between the two. I’ve already touched on this when discussed whether a Kanban System eschews iteration. This post will build [...]

Kanban Trail Markers

November 24, 2009 - 10:01 pm

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When talking about Kanban Systems for Software Development, I always try to emphasis that the Kanban System is more than the tool, and is a System that should be owned by the team, rather than being imposed upon it. By owning it, and being part of creating it, a team are more likely to evolve [...]

Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 Atlanta

November 16, 2009 - 10:46 am

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The first Lean Software & Systems Conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA between April 21st and 23rd 2010.
Registration and the Call for Papers is now open at atlanta2010.leanssc.org
The first 50 registrants enjoy a super early discount rate of $800 plus entry to the exclusive speaker luncheon and a special limited edition Ltd WIP [...]

Skills Matter Lean and Kanban Exchange

November 13, 2009 - 4:58 pm

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I’m going to be speaking as part of the Skills Matter Lean and Kanban Exchange on December 1st. From their website:
The aim of the Lean & Kanban eXchange is to promote awareness and adoption of Lean and Kanban ideas and techniques. With David J. Anderson providing the conference keynote and two Parkbench sessions, the programme [...]

Outcomes and Sync Steps

November 5, 2009 - 4:45 pm

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I met up with Jean Tabaka last week for a coffee and we chatted over various things, including Lean, Kanban, “The Don”, Tufte, and Systems Thinking. One of the other areas was around the origins and original intents of Scrum. Jean mentioned an early paper(*) by Jeff Sutherland, written before the current terminology became standard, [...]

New and (Hopefully) Improved AvailAgility

October 28, 2009 - 10:23 pm

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After over a year of blogging, I finally decided that it was time to move off wordpress.com and invest in an independently hosted version that gave me some more flexibility. So today I bit the bullet and grabbed availagility.co.uk (availagility.wordpress.com is being redirected, so all the old links should work). If you see anything which [...]

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