Partnership & Possibilities

Today I invented a phrase (at least I think I invented it because I haven’t heard anyone else say it): “Avoidable Heroism.” I invented it in response to a question, “Should my team work on the weekend to meet a commitment made under their control?” Now, I don’t know the background behind this question. Maybe [...]

Sometimes teams get stuck at the point of “deciding what to do” in retrospectives. Team members may begin to point fingers and describe things that the ubiquitous “they” must do before the team can move forward or make improvements,. This may lead to a team-as-victim, “poor us, we’re stuck” syndrome, or blame and finger-pointing. “It’s [...]

I’m attending Agile 2010. Are you? If you’re serious about adopting, grounding, or extending Agile mental models, values, principles, methods, and practices where you work, you’ll find answers to your current concerns, and stimulate new questions to consider, at Agile 2010. With 214 sessions ranging across 5 days and 16 thematic stages, you’re sure to [...]

In a comment on an article about Pixar in The Economist, Tom Agan from the Nielsen Company, writes: “At The Nielsen Company we have just completed a study of the major consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies operating in the U.S. and those with standardized post mortems for new products, like Pixar, average almost 100% more [...]