... Hi, Igor. I'm afraid what you describe sounds less like a retrospective than a process improvement meeting led by a project manager. While that sounds...
... I think a lot of people are wrestling with the same issue. Corporations understand what a "Project Manager" does but not a "Scrum Master" or "Coach" thus...
Hi everybody, I'm the coworker that Igor have talked about. Allan, thanks for you response. It was insightful. Bellow, I made some comments and questions. I...
Hi Michael, Thanks for your contribution, and I will have to agree with you. Knowing what’s wrong and what to do to fix it is the first phase of acctually ...
Hi George, First of all, thanks for you answer. I'll just add a couple of comments allright? ... Humm that might be passing in the mind of the team. Just to...
Hi Allan, Thanks a lot for your insights, they were of much help! Let me just put up some comments, allright? ... job ... I think a lot of people are wrestling...
... You basically start with a short round-robin. Ask a simple question that should be answered with one or two words (literally!). Go around the group and let...
... I thought so for a long time, too. Consequently, when I didn't succeed, I told myself that I just had to try harder next time. Surprisingly, that seldom...
... As someone has said you just pose a question and get everyone in the room to say something. When you first do this be gentle on people, questions like: -...
... I'm just cautioning that past history and previous roles you've played can possibly interfere with facilitating the retrospective. Unfortunately, the...
... Other possible question: - express in one or two words how you feel, - what do you expect from this retrospective? - if you could transform into an animal...
Hi All, This Sunday morning, I got an opportunity to listen and interact with Lean Software Development Guru's Mary and Tom Poppendieck. Needless to say, this...
... Paul: A couple of years ago I started putting that in our slide deck in our Lean Software Development courses and seminars. I don't recollect reading...
... That sure sounds interesting. I know that recommendation wasn't directly directed to me but I'm going to pick that up anyhow ;-) ... Does that fit under...
The first time I heard of this was from Dave Simpson on one of my first skype conversations back in 2004, I think, when I first started working on my book...
Hi All, Ready, Set, Dominate looks very interesting. I've been dying to try set based development in software ever since I read about it in Product Design for...
... set ... Design ... who ... In my mind there are two kinds of set based development - both related and both about keeping options open - and following the...
Hi all, We have been doing some set-based engineering at Rally Software. It took us a while to get there. And, we aren't completely consistent with it (based...
... when I was ... You are quite welcome. I figured I'd take this opportunity to mention one of my pet peeves in the Lean-Agile community. Many of us talk...
Interesting, the way i always imagined it working would be to setup 3 teams of 2 people instead of one team of six. Team A would aim to build the application /...
... Ready, Set, Dominate looks very interesting. I've been dying to try set based development in software ever since I read about it in Product Design for the...
Hear is a great talk by the Poppendieck's about the role of leadership. See <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypEMdjslEOI&feature=user>here. A talk at Google....
Not all is so rosy at Toyota. TOKYO - A Japanese labor bureau has ruled that one of Toyota's top car engineers died from working too many hours, the latest in...
Hi, To me Robin's point is a good reminder to us all. Toyota (eg, Taiichi Ohno) never said they were perfect and don't want to be seen that way. We should not...
... Well, a Japanese labor bureau thought that it was fair to hold them accountable in this case; do you see a reason to second-guess them? It's certainly not...
I thought this was sad but interesting. The lean product development model that Toyota uses rolls the product owner, scrum master, and technical lead into one...
Unfortunately this is another example of the theory of 'Working Smart, not hard!' failing in the real world. If you do work smart and can timebox your work...
