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- quotable_quotes_list.old
- Quotable Quotes List ====== * "Working costs money, delivering makes money." - Klaus Leopold from "Rethinking Agile: Why Agile Teams Have Nothing To Do ... g this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With... e on it.” — Fred Wilson * “By multiplying milestones, we transform a long, amorphous race into one wi
- enterprise_lean-agile_coach_course
- y. This assumes a couple of years of operating in one of the capacities listed above. The course inclu... cannot be derived from the properties of its components". This is the exact opposite of reductionist m... ystem manifests qualitatively new behaviors that none of its components have (e.g. Ability to evade falcon) * Non-determinism: exact outcomes of the sys
- thinking_in_bets_-_annie_duke
- the previous year. I have yet to come across someone who doesn’t identify their best and worst results... d worst decisions, I never seem to come across anyone who identifies a bad decision where they got lucky with the result, or a well-reasoned decision that didn’t pan out. No sober person ... ng when things don’t work out. It just means that one event in a set of possible futures occurred. An
- financial_advice
- articular I needed to figure out a way to invest money for the future. Coming from Australia the best place to "put your money" is real-estate. While a lot of money can be made that way in the US there were other places, such as... 65 birthday you both report success and how much money you each have. Your friend reports an amount bas
- devops_for_the_agile_enterprise
- pport: Adam Beck ====== Quotes ====== * "Everyone is doing DevOps; most are doing it poorly." — Dan... s always a direction of flow, and there is always one and only one constraint; any improvement not made at that constraint is an illusion" — Eli Goldratt ... ost expensive words in business: 'we have always done it that way'" — Unknown ====== Actions ======
- what_does_it_mean_to_be_done
- ====== What Does It Mean To Be Done? ====== Or what is the "Definition of Done"? One of the key ideas in Scrum and Agile is to focus delivering valuable work (or more basically, ru... does the work help me (the customer) get the job done" * Definition of Done (DoD): From an Scrum or A
- how_do_we_initially_setup_our_definition_of_done
- ==== How Do We Initially Setup Our Definition of Done? ====== The basic idea to get your initial Definition of Done is to get everyone's perspective on what it means to do complete, quality work from their perspective. Perhaps the analyst has one view, QA another, the architect a third, and the
- how_do_we_run_our_first_sprint_retrospective
- energizing (if sometimes exhausting) event. Everyone on the Team should participate in the Retrospecti... ful, and a beneficial change of pace, to have someone else facilitate the meeting so the Scrum Master c... ing a Retrospective: - Set the stage: Get everyone to say something and check into the process. - ... his part of the Retrospective as a “no judgment” zone, so we get all the perspectives. - Generate ins
- second_generation_lean_product_development_by_don_reinertsen
- All product development decisions have more than one moving part. Therefore have to quantify to make d... e you trying influence) - people who control the money Metric might be something to do with $ Life cycl... added But all need to converted to see impact of one dial on life cycle cost Cost of delay is just th... ulate sensitivity factors Can see things like "a one percent expense overrun will result in loss of $4
- so_you_want_to_setup_a_business_as_an_agile_coach
- s an independent Agile Coach. A small business of one person - you. You start looking around to see wha... earned that there is a little more it than this. One note: I offer this article from a particular cont... in offering is the (Agile) consulting services of one person. If you have a different context, this ar... search. A word of advice here. If you have ever done product naming, you know that you can spend month
- under_what_conditions_is_full-time_equivalent_fte_resource_planning_effective
- e people and skills available to get the project done In order to ensure that we have the best use of ... o that, for example, a person is allocated 25% to one Project, 30% to another, and the remainder (to 10... we have the right kind of people to get the work done (after all we have been getting work done up to now). The main issue we need to work is to ensure that
- how_do_we_overcome_i_win_you_lose_type_thinking_to_open_organization_to_learning
- n an Organization to Learning? * Co-Presenter: None * Featured Participants: None * Track: Leadership * Session Type: Workshop * Audience Level: ... viors that slow the adoption of the new approach. One is that we continue to see people, especially lea... g if things don’t follow their thinking; that someone else will win. So while everyone will talk about
- simulating_agile_execution_with_the_ball_point_game
- ll Point' factory. Your 'ball point' team is everyone in the room. Work consist of passing the ball aro... the number of 'ball points' you think you'll get done in a 60 sec period * We will then run an iterat... of how many ball points you'll think you'll get done in the next 60 sec period * We are go to do 5 6... ng if you want to have that ball count Does everyone understand. OK go - 2 minutes until you have to p
- implementing_beyond_budgeting-_unlocking_the_performance_potential_by_bjarte_bogsnes_-_bjarne_bogsnes
- * Often prevents the rights things from getting done: “I can't do the blindingly obvious, because it's... dget!” * Often leads to the wrong things being done: The flipside is people doing what they shouldn't... What is needed is a radical change in thinking. One idea is to separate the 3 concerns above so that one does not drive the other. In addition changes ne
- quotable_quotes_ak
- to have conversations about what is not getting done." Gary Gruver et al, "The Practical Approach to L... ry of detailed planning because you are throwing money away when you do that." – Don Reinersten. * "Y... identify another's foolishness than to recognize one's own." – Norman Keith from "Project Retrospectiv... pany." 1000's of microfinance projects are being done with no collateral, and little paperwork. * "We