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Measure twice, cut once?

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Last week I attended my first Lean Coffee here in my new city, Seattle. It was a great experience that I look forward to going to again. In fact, I suggest that everyone look for a Lean Coffee in their area, or create one! At this Lean Coffee I was challenged, albeit nicely, on my […]

Is your Agile agile?

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I noticed today that I’m starting to channel people like Jim Benson without even realizing it – until afterwards. I found myself explaining to someone at work today that the tendency to prescribe to others how things should have to be done is pervasive, even in – or maybe especially in – many “Agile” implementations (yes, […]

The Castle vs. Shack Conundrum

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I’ve begun to witness an all-too-common situation at work that I have dubbed “The Castle vs. Shack Conundrum.” Problem Customer A is adamant that we have to build a house in 4 weeks. When we begin to talk to our customer, we start to understand that the house that they envision is more like a […]

Cost of Delay with CD3

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I am at LKNA 14 this week — Lean Kanban North America, aka Modern Management Methods. There has been, as there should be, a lot of discussion about cost of delay with more yet to come. The importance of knowing as much as you can about the business value is obvious, but its easy to stop […]

I just want to code! A look at developer challenges in agile transformations

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I know developers who “just want to code.” Their love of coding is why they got a development job in the first place if you recall. You know the stereotype of the developer who likes to sit and code in a dark cubicle, right? For a long time, that was an acceptable, if not prized, condition for developers at […]

InfoDiagram: Scrum KnowHow Presentation Visuals

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I’ve loved the products on InfoDiagram.com since I discovered their Kanban Project Management Toolbox. In fact, I link to them from my resources page. So, when their founder, Peter Zvirinsky, told me about their new Scrum KnowHow Presentation Visuals, I had to take a look. I expected to find a great set of fully-editable graphics (I have always loved […]

My top 5 topics from the 2015 DevOps Enterprise Summit

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I just got back from the DevOps Enterprise Summit last night. This was the 2nd annual installation of the conference and it was three solid days of great content. My colleague, Dominica DeGrandis, was there last year and was on the organizing committee for the conference and she promised me this would be great. This was […]

Will you help build a learning generation?

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I don’t know about your experiences, but my kids are perfectionists — though they each manifest that trait in different ways. My youngest two often quit when they get frustrated that they aren’t perfect at something. My oldest gets really upset when he feels like he’s not doing something perfectly and/or anyone is thinking less than the best […]

Lean Agile Scotland 2016: Let’s not get rid of managers!

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I had heard nothing but stellar things about Lean Agile Scotland so I decided to submit a few talks in hopes that I would be selected. I was fortunate enough to be asked to give a talk on why managers are still important in the workplace, why we shouldn’t hate them as much as we […]

Need to shake up your retrospective? Try TRIZ

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One day, not too long ago, my team was suffering through a very boring retrospective. We were doing the old standard retrospective format of “What was good?” and “What was bad?” followed by “What can we do now?” That worked for us for a while because my team isn’t shy when it comes to talking […]

Is capacity a silver bullet?

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Today I watched the first Seattle Seahawks game of the NFL season. During the game, which we lost, I did get a chance to see a series of Verizon commercials themed around a better network explained in different ways, one of which was a door. This commercial had many of my friends geeking out because […]

This week’s video to watch: Cost of Delay

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This short video is one of a longer series of videos produced by AOE and featuring Don Reinertsen, a guru of the economics of product development. One of the things Don teaches people is that economics is a key part of what we do – even if you’re a techie. Knowing the cost of delay (COD) is […]

Tips on having a stellar standup

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In the book “Death by Meeting,” Patrick Lencioni  points out that we often take a meeting and bloat it so that it no longer accomplishes the original intent. I’ve heard enough tales about one-hour standups to know that this is relevant here as well.  The fix is to recognize, and stay true to, the original […]

This week’s video to watch: 4+3+2+1 Team Success Factors

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This week’s video to watch is from Jimmy Janlén, an agile coach at Crisp, a Swedish consulting company. It describes the 4+3+2+1 Team Success Factors model that “captures and describes what you can do to help make your team become strong and successful.” 1 I think this is worth the 7+ minutes of your time. Here are […]

This week’s video to watch: What Agile is Not

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This video is episode four of Jim Benson‘s series called the Agile Heretic. While the title of the series sounds provocative, the intent is only to help us reflect on how things have evolved. While questioning things can be thought of as heretical, I believe that the intent behind this video series is to remind […]

LeanAgile US: Boosting Agility by Scaling Your Decision-Making

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I was very excited to be selected to speak again this year at LeanAgile US 2018 in Fort Lauderdale, FL. This is a great conference with knowledgeable and engaging speakers, a growing national audience and lots of positivity and learning. I recommend this up and coming conference for your 2019 plans! My talk this year […]

Embracing lagom at work

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Lagom, pronounced law-gum, is a Swedish word that has no direct translation, but essentially means “not too much, not too little… just right.” We chose this word for the name of our business, Lagom Solutions, not just because of our Swedish heritage, but because the term is so relevant to the needs of organizations in this culture of […]

Continuous ChitChat with the DevOps Institute

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Lean/Agile coach Julia Wester (that’s me!) of Lagom Solutions chitchats with Jayne Groll of the DevOps Institute on the importance of flow, and how “management doesn’t have to be a nasty word.” Want more? Chat with Julia, Jayne and DevOps Institute community members live at 11am ET on Thursday, March 29th at the next #slackside […]

This Week’s Video to Watch: Systems Thinking

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Today’s video is just over 1 minute long and gets to the heart of what systems thinking really is in very simple terms. Peter Senge, the speaker in this video, is an expert on the science of systems and is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute, […]

DevOps Days SLC Keynote & Workshop

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My theme at DevOps Days Salt Lake City seemed to be diving into the exploration of unintended consequences, especially negative ones. From my workshop on day one on “How can it go to heck in a handbasket? Exploring the Unhappy Path” to my day two keynote “The Lagom Paradox: Sometimes Less is More?!?”, I try […]
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