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Agility is a higher concept than just Agile. One we should embrace more. When a business pursues #agility it opens wide avenues for improvement, not just through one framework or method, but an open-minded approach to get better, and never stop improving. Agility goes beyond technology, or Agile Transformations. It …
The philosophy behind Agile, Lean and Kanban can go beyond business projects or products to actually inspire our life, our dreams, and personal projects. Guided by this fact, and also by the writings of Bre Pettis and Kio Stark, I give you the 12 Commandments of Done, hoping they can inspire you to conquer your …
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. Tom Cargill. Bell Labs. It sounds a bit funny, yet so many times it’s true. The question is why? The reason is what I call: “The …
“Good wine ages well. Always.” ~ Yours truly Several people have asked me to explain the basics of Kanban’s Agile approach to Software Development. This presentation is a simple, straight forward, fun way to get what Kanban is all about. UPDATE: This presentation is from 2011, wow! Still pretty good. But if you want …
Less noise, less “information”, leads to less stress and that equals more peace. Image Credits: here. Which is actually one of the main principles of Kanban: Limit Work in Progress. It also relates to something I call Holistic Kanban or HKanban you can learn more about it here: </2010/12/23/hkanban/>
STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GREAT MEN Like so many Project Managers and busy professionals I too have discovered that is not just enough to manage other people, or the work at hand, we have to manage our efforts in and out of the office, and daily life can be the biggest challenge of all.
“In business and in life: the lighter we are the higher we get.” ~ Miguel Gómez Arbocco, a good friend. Lean is a whole way of thinking that fundamentally tells us: keep the most valuable, discard the rest. Because the rest is weight, is useless inventory, that drags you down, and makes everything harder. When you go …
Traditionally Project Management has identified three constraints that must be managed to achieve success on any project, namely: Time: or the schedule, to meet deadlines and deliver Money: our available budget, and financial resources Scope: extent of work that has to be performed. Collectively they are known as the …
