Working to repair the world, one sketchnote at a time
The Alarm clock rings. It’s morning. I woke up next to my wife in the West End. I got out of bed, showered, walked the dog, sat down for breakfast with my two daughters, said goodbye to my family, got in my Chevy Volt and drove off to work. My morning was normal – meetings, […]
The power of a name and its value shouldn’t be ignored. Every person recognizes himself or herself by their name. What would happen if I walked into a team room and only addressed people by their roles – “How’s it going Test Lead?”, “What’s up, BSA?”, or “Hey Product Owner, can you talk with Lead […]
The more sprints that a Team has had together, the more we learn about each other and the power of “Team” and the more everyone buys into the strength of the agile approach. Some time ago I worked with a startup Team. After the fourth Sprint Review/Retrospective & Sprint Planning period they were more relaxed […]
If you have never heard of it, go to http://www.tastycupcakes.com and look around. In their own words, “TastyCupcakes is a community-run site, founded by Michael McCullough and Don McGreal after they presented a series of games at Agile 2008 in Toronto. They first placed their games on this site and then, with the help of Michael Sahota, opened it up to the […]
My first professional management role was three years out of college. I was a young engineer in an privately owned electronics manufacturing company. The owner needed a change, fired the long-time president and brought in a “fixer.” One of the fixer’s first acts was to make me an offer I couldn’t refuse — “I want […]