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Lean-Agile Resources
We have put together some Lean-Agile Resources on these pages. These include: books, articles, videos, blogs, LinkedIn groups, etc, etc. Please give us your feedback and suggestions.
Leading Fearless Change
What is the hardest thing about Scrum? (Maybe in life.) Probably, it is that we must lead change. Getting people to change is difficult. In Scrum, for example, we are trying to change people. The initial big change and then always continuous change. And removing impediments typically requires change. First, we change them to a fully […]
“If you wait for perfection, you might wait too long.”
I guess I will take credit for this quote (see title). “The relentless pursuit of perfection.” I mostly like that idea. (That was the slogan of the Lexus brand.) But ‘waiting for perfection’ usually means analysis paralysis. Or maybe other things. To me, it reflects a key idea behind lean-agile-scrum. It is an idea expressed in […]
New CSP Process
The Scrum Alliance has announced a new CSP Process. That is a new process for becoming a Certified Scrum Professional. Start here. [Note: The pages have been changed since this post.] This is mostly good. We recommend it. Some discussion: First, the main changes are: (a) 36 months of experience (not as well defined by […]
Choosing a Scrum course/trainer
This is a question I get from time to time: How should I choose between one course/trainer and another? This is an important question and deserves some thought. It does not deserve, in my opinion, a simple answer, as one might get from Zagat’s about a restaurant. The choice is different than choosing yet another […]
Learning more
If you are looking to do some more learning, may I suggest these resources. Many rooms to visit, many different kinds of resources. It includes people of many persuasions. But all of them, in one way or another, are saying the same thing: “Go, and do. Better than we have done yet, you will do. […]
Productivity Now
The economy is in a bit of a tailspin now. We can help ourselves. If you wait for the Wizards of Washington to help, you might wait for the wrong team. How do we get ourselves out of this jam? We need a simple way, a simple feedback loop, for telling if we are productive, […]
Reading List CSM Sutherland/Little course
We recently led a course in Atlanta, Georgia. Suggested reading included the following: Note: I believe the Amazon images do not show up well if you use an ad blocker or https. ______________________ “The New New Product Development Game” by Takeuchi and Nonaka “The Contradictions That Drive Toyota’s Success” by Takeuchi “The Concept of ‘Ba’” […]
Kaikaku or kaizen? (2)
I recently did a mail/internet survey, asking people what kind of training would be of interest? (If you would like to respond to this, please tell me.) Someone responded, “How about adopting a continuous improvement approach?” Now, I don’t know what the writer had in mind exactly (although maybe I will learn more). I assumed […]
The primacy of learning
More and more I am taking the view that learning is the central thing about business. What does this mean? First, learning by itself is not that meaningful. It is learning combined with action. The simple dichotomy (between thinking and action) is really not so simple. For example, one of the best ways to learn […]