New CTO
I’ve just read great article and this goes to my notes - http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/09/06/I-am-Your-New-CTO.html QA will find nothing. We will cover for each other. We will make Honest...
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Outsourcing: what i learned
Describe scope better and split it to milestones. The more you have them the better Involve Team and PO while selecting a contractor Let teams directly communicate between. Managers are bottleneck...
View ArticleManagement and motivation
The best thing management can do is to create an environment which supports flow. Daniel Pink, author of the bestselling book “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” proposed three areas...
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Retrospective of retrospectives
Situation Problem: most SMs are really only meetings facilitators, which is not cool and not effective; it also doesn’t allow reusing all power of Scrum framework. Goal: Make SM a person who challenges...
View ArticleWhat is CTO?
I found these very interesting notes while was reviewing my records. The technology product visionary needs to do the following: Understand the marketplace and its direction. Develop the technological...
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Optimization vs Demand
Why is software development so slow? Why do projects, features or whatever we want to implement take so much time to release? Here is an idea for one simple reason – we do a lot of things that are not...
View ArticleThoughts on Change
It’s a common perception that people do not change because they are lazy. I also tend to think like this when in a bad mood. But in reality it is because: there is a lack of clarity people wear...
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Plan Do Check Act cycle
We all know about Plan -> Do -> Check -> Act cycle. Link to Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA. One important thing is missing here from my point of view. There must be improvement...
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Your team in 1 year
While I was in a ITSpring conference in Minsk I participated in interesting assignment during talk of startoplan.ru owners. This assignment again showed me the power of visualization. Assignment itself...
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Team metrics: who and why needs them?
Why do I need metrics? I am not working very close with teams on daily basis recently and it’s not so easy to gather information in order to take actions or discuss priorities. But I need data to have...
View ArticleYou don’t need a manager
Why? Because most probably he will: Work on processes, not on value creation Be responsible for a certain centralized function: IT, Dev, PMO, Process Improvement department; which is not valuable...
View ArticleQuestions with no answers
Here are some questions that keep bothering me: Do you need managers or management? Do you need testers or testing? Do you need technical writer or documentation? Do you need process or solution? Do...
View ArticleManagement gurus
There is huge amount of management crap nowadays: various books, theories, groups, associations, webinars and etc… But it seems that there are very interesting places where we can learn how to organize...
View Article2 seconds management kaizen
Huge improvements are difficult and require a lot of energy. But what simple things can be done? From now going to add everybody as optional into my meeting requests. Those who are interested will show...
View ArticleObservation: Introducing the change
Noticed that small change and big change generate same amount of discussions (and maybe even inside resistance) in the company. Why should we care about small ones with small impact if it still...
View ArticleManagers are copycats
It’s very difficult to innovate in all fields. But in people/organizational management i mostly see the copycats (i am not an exception). We basically just grab some ideas just because we believe it...
View Article2 seconds management kaizen: meetings (again)
Meetings is the most dangerous thing for companies and people motivation. Another improvement that going to apply in my daily life: Decline meetings if you can’t or not going to contribute. Save the...
View Article“5 Whys” vs “What if”
“5 Whys” is a great method to find root cause of problems. If you browse internet you will find several examples of applying this technique. Some of these examples are really trivial and questionable....
View Article12 Principles of new organization
How are these principles applied in your company? Do you have modern management system? Let me know if you want to discuss this more or have any practical hints how to move that direction in the...
View Article2 seconds management kaizen: meetings and motivation
Meetings (again and again) Make a reminder for everybody in the room just before a meeting starts - those who are not going to participate actively should leave the room. I assume that you apply this...
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