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Problem Solving 101
I have a confession to make: problem solving tools and techniques are probably the weakest part of my product development skill set. I don’t think I’m alone on that score. As I watch other teams work,...
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Agile Teams Better Found Than Made?
I’ve been dabbling with the idea of swarming and how it might relate to team organization in software development for a couple of years now. There are some great resources out there that provide...
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Piercing the Veil of Uncertainty
Sometimes when I talk to people about impediments, it feels as though the conversation gets pulled down into despair. It’s particularly acute with the “big” impediments – the ones that it seems we have...
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What If the Problem Just Isn’t Yours to Solve?
I was listening to Ken Schwaber once and he was talking about someone who had a really hard problem. I mean wicked hard. As Ken put it, they racked their brains and sweat bullets, but they just...
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Leadership Practice #3 – Envisioning
If you are going to be a leader within an organization, then you need to be able to clearly communicate a compelling vision. The communication part is relatively easy to practice, but the vision part...
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Impediment Spotting
So there I was in a meeting the other day (saving the world…yawn). Everything was going smoothly (too smoothly) so I did a quick spot check for impediments. You know, “Hey folks, before we wrap things...
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