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- thinking_in_bets_-_annie_duke
- t there are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck. Learning to recognize the difference between th... bets is all about. Pete Carroll was a victim of our tendency to equate the quality of a decision with... ith this exercise. I ask group members to come to our first meeting with a brief description of their b
- quotable_quotes_list.old
- rder we try to incentivize performance, the worse our problem becomes.” — Donald G. Reinertsen * “In product development, our problem is virtually never motionless engineers. ... communication but to manage the incompleteness of our communications” — Alistair Cockburn, Agile Softwa... ter design that is not available to us because of our organization?” —Mel Conway, Toward Simplifying Ap
- how_do_we_overcome_i_win_you_lose_type_thinking_to_open_organization_to_learning
- ng. ====== Learning Outcomes ====== * Improve our ability to make decisions (so we are able to leve... ctive process so we become more intentional about our learning ====== Prerequisite Knowledge ====== N... re is a sheet with some common biases that effect our decision making. At your table quickly come up wi... * In 2014 I presented a user experience called "Our Estimates are Terrible!". This session was aimed
- what_inbuilt_biases_do_we_have_that_impede_good_decision_making
- or have at least heard of the idea that sometimes our brains operate in such a way that we make poor de... that we are a poorer manager / knowledge worker. Our work shouldn't be so hard: it is all about figuri... fastest possible time, preferably without killing ourselves in the process. Or if you are a "Lean" pers... is_agile_so_hard|Why Is Agile So Hard?]] but also our brains are wired in a way which actually gets in
- under_what_conditions_is_full-time_equivalent_fte_resource_planning_effective
- we will pull together a detailed resource plan of our people with the idea being that we can predict ho... In order to ensure that we have the best use of our people (that they are being well or fully utilize... The main issue we need to work is to ensure that our people are working on the most important things. ... . Bottom line is that my experience has been that our developers, QA, etc. do not really operate per th
- what_kind_of_working_agreements_should_we_set_up_for_the_team
- dy, fire, aim”. * By being proactive we can set ourselves up to deal with team issues in a calm way, before we find ourselves in a situation where we cannot, for example, control our emotions. * The process of creating working agr... is a subject that we can and should talk about. Our aim is to create high-performing Teams (or groups
- conflict_resolution_-_daniel_dana
- about conflict resolution we learned by watching our mother and father deal with issues." The realit... n we are involved in conflicts in a later part of our live, we are more than just "involved". We are in... who behave in ways that we perceive as threats to our self-interests we respond in the traditional, ref... ffs at dawn", but we will probably seek to ensure our safety by defeating our adversaries. * Flight:
- what_is_a_user_story_ssa
- ther the functionality that we need to provide to our end users. We already know that we will be demonstrating this capability to our end users at the end of a Sprint / iteration so i... wo industries that call their customers “users” – ours and the illegal drug industry – and this fact probably explains our lack of understanding of who we are doing the wor
- how_much_coaching_do_we_really_need
- he pressure on. Let’s face it; we were desperate. Our clients were complaining about the quality of our work. Our sales and marketing organization were complaining about missing schedules and inconsistent delivery. Our finance department were worried about the future
- quotable_quotes_ag
- al was not resulting in any better decisions, and our priority should be reaching the best possible dec... portant, we realized the potential for bolstering our relationships with our partner agencies by way of a strong linchpin liaison officer (LNO). As it turned out, some of our best LNOs were also some of our best leaders on t
- what_events_should_we_put_in_place_for_iterations_or_sprints
- nding the timing of the demo. See [[how_do_we_run_our_first_iteration_planning_or_sprint_planning_event|How Do We Run Our First Iteration Planning (Sprint Planning)?]] for... t includes your stakeholders. See [[how_do_we_run_our_first_iteration_demo_or_sprint_review|How Do We Run Our First Iteration Demonstation (Sprint Review)?]] f
- what_kinds_of_problems_do_you_see_when_agile_teams_churn_team_members_a_lot
- if they are subject to high churn? * We impact our ability to deliver value. Just repeating it hear ... * We reduce predictability: We should not expect our Teams to meet commitments they have made. Teams a... of deliverables - technical debt). * We impact our products: We are potentially impacting our ability to implement and support our products. Sometimes we
- why_do_people_overcommit
- r Committing? ====== The question we have to ask ourselves is “why?” After all, no one is forcing the ... dress the problem we will remain unpredictable in our delivery, and have reduced throughput due to high... to a reduction in engagement of the Team. Worse, our customers will see no improvement in our ability to make and meet commitments. My view is that there
- how_do_we_allow_for_innovation
- innovative. To break this cycle, and to prove to ourselves that we still had innovation chops, we deci... Before going into the details of how we organized our first hack-a-thon, what were the results? The bac... Hack-a-thon]]. * We then set expectations for our version - “Up to 3 days of free time during regul... s to define and implement any new idea related to our products or business” * Why, our business reaso
- how_do_we_run_our_first_sprint_retrospective
- ====== How Do We Run Our First Iteration (Sprint) Retrospective? ====== ====== Premise ====== At the ... ss is being made. The first thing we need to ask ourselves is "what areas do we need to look at to focus on our improvements?". In general, Teams can consider po... hat we think, we get some feedback, and we update our plan based on what we see.” - Methods and Teamw