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Category Archives: Little’s Second Law
Agile Adoption: Two Styles Contrasted
Imagine a smallish organization with 10 Scrum teams (or what will be 10 Scrum teams). I want you to be thinking of a relatively uncomplicated situation. Imagine that you offered two ways to implement agile. Let us assume that we believe that agile will lead to better lives for the workers and better lives for […]
Scrum 201: Desire
Any sports coach knows the Team must have desire. In my classes I talk to people about how much improvement they expect to make in 1 year, with 1 team. Often their expectation is in the 20% range. I use Henry Ford’s famous quote: “Whether you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.” So, […]
Freedom
For reasons unknown, I ran into a picture I took of a statue of Jefferson in Paris (it is along the Seine, near the Musee d’Orsay). Then I saw something else which led me to this quote from Jefferson, about the meaning of July 4th. I think it has a broader meaning, so I quote […]
Little’s Second Law
One day I was writing down quotes to be printed in a HUGE font and put in the team room. On that day, I thought it would help (and actually, I think for that team, it did help). Anyway, this sentence came to me: People are remarkably good at doing what they want to do. […]
Little’s Second Law
Little’s Law is a nice idea that tells us we want small batches of work. Smaller, always smaller. See here for a start. This is from a John Little at Case Western Reserve, and it’s fairly old. Unrelated: One day the following phrase came to me: “People are remarkably good at doing what they want […]
Little’s Second Law: “People are remarkably good at doing…”
Little’s Law is justly famous. I highly advise that your firm think about it, and use it as a justification for reducing the number of projects “in the system,” and also to justify having team members only work on one project. There are other reasons to do this, but Little’s Law is enough. Now I […]