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- quotable_quotes_list.old
- ” — Tim Ferriss * “Whatever the problem, it’s always a people problem” —- Gerry Weinberg * "Almost ... , and finally, by a test campaign. And that's the way to answer them not by arguments around a table.” ... tually never motionless engineers. It is almost always motionless work products.” — Donald G. Reinertse... elopment Flow” * “Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.”
- thinking_in_bets_-_annie_duke
- sion traps, learn from results in a more rational way, and keep emotions out of the process as much as ... r decisions. The challenge is not to change the way our brains operate but to figure out how to work ... ough, that we actually form abstract beliefs this way: We hear something; We believe it to be true; Onl... currently hold, is not naturally supported by the way we process information. We might think of ourselv
- enterprise_lean-agile_coach_course
- ue networks * Organizational implications of Conway’s Law * Fixed vs. fluid team structure * Buil... organization anti-pattern. Biased feedback loop always positive. Need to fix with gemba, for example ... cturing approach * (Action) Metrics as ranges always, not a single number * (Quote) (Sarcasm). "If ... not reason about everything in a model There is always a point where you have to step outside the model
- how_do_we_overcome_i_win_you_lose_type_thinking_to_open_organization_to_learning
- through an understanding of why people think the way they do, the problems traditional thinking causes... ions and conducts experiments. Of course in many ways this is all a lead up. In the final analysis we ... ver problems and learn new things, and figure out ways to get better. This thinking should also support... instead of posturing? What we need is to better way to deal with ambiguity by becoming more explicit
- devops_for_the_agile_enterprise
- ences include: * CALMS (or rather SMALC as the way to present this as Culture comes last) vs SAFe (C... n" — Unknown * "In any value stream, there is always a direction of flow, and there is always one and only one constraint; any improvement not made at tha... "The most expensive words in business: 'we have always done it that way'" — Unknown ====== Actions ===
- how_does_a_team_initially_get_control_of_work
- s it feel like I am doing the same work as I’ve always done?” ====== Premise ====== When we kick-off ... ent where we try to help the team work in the new way and begin to get their work under control. =====... Team works on it". In the final analysis the only way to improve our work is to build up a complete pic... ontrol of the work and start operating in the new way. These “guiding principles” help us to get things
- quotable_quotes_aa
- * "Reorganizations that ignore Conway's Law, team cognitive load, and related dynamics risk acting l... harlton Ogburn * "I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no ob
- what_inbuilt_biases_do_we_have_that_impede_good_decision_making
- idea that sometimes our brains operate in such a way that we make poor decisions which in turn means t... sed by the fact that your brain is getting in the way. Not only is it hard to learn new tricks [[why_is... ile So Hard?]] but also our brains are wired in a way which actually gets in the way of being successful. For example, most of us believe that we apply log
- what_are_the_steps_we_can_take_to_restructure_a_train
- t their organization, there is a feeling that the way things are structured at the moment is in fact th... t will disrupt current efforts. There are better ways to address these issues. Firstly, we need to und... y being disrupted, and probably not in a positive way. In the absence of information, rumors will be ne... more engaging process. Secondly, we need to get away from politics and agendas as the primary driver f
- leadership_delegates_the_transformation_to_others_anti-pattern
- enior leadership, the pattern will repeat all the way through the various layers of management as they ... ass through the transformation. In summary, we always start the transformation with the teams and laun... nderstanding of how the move to agile affects the way work is executed in the organization, without lin... the organization will naturally fall back to old ways of working resulting in only superficial improve
- turn_the_ship_around_-_a_true_story_of_turning_followers_into_leaders_-_david_marquet
- ns suffer in that people tend to work in the "new way" while the new approach is the "shiny new object"... entation is not really agile at old, just the old way dressed up in new terminology. The changes talked... , and also spread as people who worked in the new way went to other stations. To quote "When the perfor... e worries and begin to attack them." * Act your way to new thinking. For example "Starting condition:
- implementing_beyond_budgeting-_unlocking_the_performance_potential_by_bjarte_bogsnes_-_bjarne_bogsnes
- sn't affect me" when in fact you can stifle a new way of working by not looking at what needs to be changed at higher levels. In many ways the book represents an agile approach to finance... t there is a traditional budgeting process in the way. The following problems are noted with this proce... budget number” is a narrow and often meaningless way of defining performance." The reason this is the
- conflict_resolution_-_daniel_dana
- ve the other(s) as being at fault, and who act in ways that cause a business problem" It takes you thr... the decision-making process in even more serious ways than causing information to be incomplete or unr... d for it. Since we work with people who behave in ways that we perceive as threats to our self-interest... ies. * Flight: Again, so we probably don't run away, but we will probably distance ourselves from our
- how_do_we_get_away_from_business_as_usual_thinking_on_teams
- ====== How Do We Get Away from “Business as Usual” Thinking On Teams? ====== Or “How do we have a proa... s, this issue remains. How do we help Teams step away from business as usual? You would think that a Re... that were noticed in the last iteration. Another way of asking this question therefore is “how do we i... etrospective ====== A lot has been written about ways to improve retrospectives generically, including
- how_do_we_run_our_first_sprint_retrospective
- etrospective to review their work process and the way the Team worked together (the "inspect and adapt"... s can produce results, most Teams that do it this way will find the results superficial, that they feel... . There are a couple of reasons for doing it this way: * We want to encourage a general Team level o... want to have intentional risk. An experiment is a way of phrasing and running something risky without m