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- quotable_quotes_list.old
- ound.” — Donald G. Reinertsen * “Reducing risk, which is the primary mission of testing, clearly create... ent. * “ ... if we have managers deciding . . . which services will be built, by which teams, we implicitly have managers deciding on the system architecture.... o question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards,
- this_is_lean_-_resolving_the_efficiency_paradox_-_niklas_modig
- ve resource efficiency in many cases because work which results from being resource efficient (and not de... t efficiency. It continues to dominate the way in which organizations in different industries and sectors... iscussion then moves to a a look at Little’s Law, which states that: Throughput time = flow units in p... completing the process and refers to the pace at which flow units move through the process. The book th
- thinking_in_bets_-_annie_duke
- t choosing. Our beliefs drive the bets we make: which brands of cars better retain their value, whether... “a key gene for baldness is on the X chromosome, which you get from your mother” but “it is not the only... have, the better we get at making decisions about which possible future to bet on. Ideally, as we learn f... y car, and vanished.” “The pedestrian had no idea which direction to run, so I ran over him.” “The teleph
- accelerate_-_building_strategic_agility_for_a_faster-moving_world_-_john_p_kotter
- ter calls the basic processes the Accelerators of which there are eight: - Create a sense of urgency ... has to do with identifying and removing barriers which slow or stop strategically important activity. No... e truth is that the management-driven hierarchies which good enterprises use and we take for granted are ... k structure look less like systematic management (which creates reliability and efficiency) and more like
- how_do_we_overcome_i_win_you_lose_type_thinking_to_open_organization_to_learning
- ly leadership, get stuck on a particular position which they have trouble moving from. The feeling is tha... adership, get stuck on a particular position from which they have trouble moving even when there is signi... nts". We have a tendency to say "lets experiment" which is good, but we don't really take the time to go ... r: * A focus on accuracy (over confirmation), which includes rewarding learning, objectivity, and ope
- quotable_quotes_ah
- uation worse and take measured corrective action; which is, in this case, value-stream alignment." – Alle... rry information through channels; and poor tools, which most often generate information that would have b... ecisions without data; testing to specifications, which leaves the product vulnerable to problems too inf... specifications to catch; and discarded knowledge, which is the failure to put everything learned during a
- what_inbuilt_biases_do_we_have_that_impede_good_decision_making
- operate in such a way that we make poor decisions which in turn means that we are a poorer manager / know... So Hard?]] but also our brains are wired in a way which actually gets in the way of being successful. Fo... erpret information and often push us to decisions which really do not make sense when looked at objectively, and which we may even regret. Since these are inbuilt, the
- enterprise_lean-agile_coach_course
- daptive systems defn "a system, the properties of which cannot be derived from the properties of its comp... mindset). What I can do instead is maximize scope which I understand. Results in deliver more crap faster... daptive systems defn "a system, the properties of which cannot be derived from the properties of its comp... over time Some systems have an "attractor" around which the phase space of the system will revolve {{ima
- syntax @wiki
- >DokuWiki]] supports some simple markup language, which tries to make the datafiles to be as readable as ... Additionally DokuWiki supports a "poster" image which will be shown before the video has started. That ... ities|pattern file]]. There are three exceptions which do not come from that pattern file: multiplicatio... ou can see, it's the cell separator before a cell which decides about the formatting: | ^
- if_we_doing_agile_at_scale_we_must_adopt_safe_anti-pattern
- certainly seems to make this whole agile thing (“which from what I’ve heard is pretty soft”) more concre... ard this implementation, working to create a plan which, at the end will have all these structures and ap... ontext is applicable, the tools can be misapplied which do not produce the expected result or worse resul... ed value delivery from the customer’s perspective which means, again, you have put additional bureaucracy
- reference_useful_in_training_situations
- um Master vs Project Manager Game]] - Useful game which helps folks understand how the responsibilities o... to get to a minimal, end-to-end solution present which usually has high value, from which you can thin then fill in the rest of the solution in subsequent iter... tunities, not necessarily as a result of "peril" (which is "current problem" classification. * [[http:/
- under_what_conditions_is_full-time_equivalent_fte_resource_planning_effective
- , they are juggling 3 backlogs and need to decide which Project is to get their attention right now. They... do this from their perspective and understanding, which typically does not have a wide enough context to ... mpacted by random events (e.g. “system is down!”) which change the interactions between people working th... We have a tendency to put more onto these people which creates a huge dependency for all projects (the “
- what_is_the_benefit_of_having_a_cadence_of_meetings_etc
- level of cadence (for example, yearly budgeting) which is often the cause of a lot of resentment and so ... ization. Cadence also becomes a natural time box which allows us to not only to define events that occur... ar from the plan before another event comes along which offers the possibility to correct (based on the n... cific examples of this include the retrospective; which we schedule in advance to ensure we take the time
- how_do_we_run_our_first_sprint_retrospective
- lowing areas: * Quality: How to reduce defects which escape from the Sprints / Iteration? * Predicta... to do: Prioritize the ideas and decide as a Team which ones we need to take on in the next Iteration. Pu... le of groups have each group generate SMART goals which define the experiment the team wants to run. Review results with whole team and finally decide which ones the team is going to take on in the next spr
- how_is_work_assigned_during_a_sprint
- ffers from a more traditional management approach which says that an outside expert can make better decis... r Taylor-ism) a theory of optimizing labor effort which was developed in the 1910's. With scientific mana... e more flexible team members as it creates a team which is better able to deal with any requirement throw... . * Teams have a tendency to swarm more on work which increases cross-fertilization and learning while