Redefining Blameless Post-Mortem Terminology
Post-mortem: the practice of analysing and discussing an incident soon after it has occurred, especially in order to understand how the incident occurred and to learn from it.
Recent Posts
A Facilitator’s Guide to The Ship Building Simulation
A step by step guide for facilitating the ship building simulation from the book “Pratical Kanban” by Klaus Leopold.
Scrum is a Cargo Cult
Beware: Scrum may harm your organisation. Be agile or be not, there is no “doing” agile.
Effective Team Retrospectives
In my experience team retrospectives are the single most powerful practice to enable Kaizen, i.e. a continual improvement process. In this article I describe how I structure effective team retrospectives.
You Ain’t Gonna Need It – YAGNI
All to often products get cluttered with features that someone believes might be useful, without the actual need for them being verified. Feature creep makes a product more expensive, not only in regards to development cost, but more importantly also in regards to maintenance. One should avoid developing a feature, if you ain’t gonna need it.
Zero Waste
Waste reduction is an effective way to increase profitability. Keeping technical debt low increases business agility an reduces the risk of unconsciously getting into a state of debt overload where all available resources are bound exclusively to pay back interests, effectively bringing development to a halt. Having shared values and principles supporting continual improvement and refactoring is an effective way to create sustainable systems and retaining flexibility.
Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY
Applying the DRY principle substantially lowers the effort for maintenance and development of software systems, thus increasing agility and resulting in a more productive and motivated working environment.
Why Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek on why leaders make you feel safe.
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
TED talk from Simon Sinek on inspiration.
The Boy Scout Rule
Staying competitive by applying the „The Boy Scout Rule“.