This week reviewing a little exercise with my peers at Happy Melly community I started a great conversation with Marjan Venema (you can read more about it at this link) about resistance to change, I though I was the only one to think like that but it seems like it’s not. Talking about resistance to… Continúa leyendo Resistance to change myth or truth.
Moving from departments to services
This post is something like thinking out loud, maybe somebody has also arrived at this conclusion and could be awesome or maybe is something that don’t make sense. I did that jointly different points of view using – what we could say – my tool box, merging #NoProjects from agile community, Flow efficiency from Lean… Continúa leyendo Moving from departments to services
Tribals
I spend this las two month reading «Tribal Leadership» by David Logan and I found it quite interesting and inspiring. He makes a classification of 5 different types of tribes and each one is also split into 3 subgroups (early, middle and late) and you must pass through one to each other in order to move… Continúa leyendo Tribals
Tensions and freedom
After being really hooked with Management 3.0 philosophy this last two years, this year I landed to a couple of interesting books : «Freedom, Inc.» written by Isaac Getz and Brian Carney and Holacracy written by Brian J. Robertson. They talk about a different kind of management, a different point of view inside corporations where… Continúa leyendo Tensions and freedom
To flow, or not to flow
I remember not too much time ago, when I was talking about projects with a two guys working for another company, they were asking things about how we work, you know Gantt charts, work overtime, «resources», etc. It was a bit weird because it was supposed these guys were close to the top of the… Continúa leyendo To flow, or not to flow
Am I a resource?
I have to say that every time anybody talk about resource I like to ask for details: are you talking about people or computers? Sometimes I think I’m wasting my time but I’m just trying to add my «little grain of sand» in order people think or reconsider this question: «Why am I a resources?»… Continúa leyendo Am I a resource?
DAD
Reading blogs, books and doing some research through the net, I don’t know how but I landed at one spanish blog talking about DAD (Disciplined Agile Delivery), I heard before about other recent kinds of agile framework (although you think it’s unbelievable, there are more agile frameworks, it’s not all about SCRUM!! hahahahah ) like… Continúa leyendo DAD
Estimations
Inside a non agile world project managers and managers likes to ask around «When will you finish this new feature / task or whatever?» and this is both a good and a complex question….. «I don’t know» is not an option and if you say that get ready to this: «Don’t worry, is just a… Continúa leyendo Estimations
Lean IT
After reading «Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit«, an amazing book written by Mary Poppendieck, there is very interesting points about introducing Lean mind-set in IT world. One of the most important points for me is how to translate Lean wastes from manufacturing to IT. Althought we could think that Lean is more focused in… Continúa leyendo Lean IT
Moving Motivators
I am leading a little IT team and this year I thought I could be a gret beginning talking with the team about motivation because we never talked about that and to have feedback about how a change affected them (we were recently took over by bigger company), for these reasons I played with them… Continúa leyendo Moving Motivators
Agile beginner's mind 