by Al Shalloway | May 22, 2022 | Publication
The Scrum Guide tells us that its roles, events, artifacts, and rules are immutable. This is fine if you want to ensure you are doing Scrum. But this can force you to use practices that aren’t appropriate for you as well. Scrum is based on the philosophy that...
by Al Shalloway | May 22, 2022 | Publication, Uncategorized
At a conference years ago Don Reinertsen and I were watching from the back of the room and sometimes making private comments about the presentations. At one point it was clear that there was a pattern of “this or that” – mostly relating to flow or...
by Al Shalloway | May 17, 2022 | Publication
A Lean-Agile coach is a person who understands how to help teams and organizations improve with the theories of Flow, Lean, and Theory of Constraints while also understanding the basics of human learning. Coaches need to play an active role in helping teams improve. ...
by Al Shalloway | May 15, 2022 | Publication
Many Agilists work on symptoms and not root causes. There are several ways to avoid this. The first is to understand First Principles and Mindsets/Values. You must also find the source of the problem. It may be that the problem itself is not the source. See Using the...
by Al Shalloway | May 7, 2022 | Publication
Often reducing batch size is all it takes to bring a process into control. Eli Goldratt. There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker Agile, Flow, Lean, and the Theory of Constraints all focus on the quick...
by Al Shalloway | May 7, 2022 | Publication
A personal account by Al Shalloway I don’t get imposter syndrome as much as I used to, but I can remember when I did. And sometimes, it was pretty traumatic. Over the years, I’ve learned a few techniques that make the feeling of being an imposter a positive...
