On time & in budget
on 1st June 2018
Posts Tagged management
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Management Expectations
on 18th February 2018
As someone once wrote, twice the value in half the time – or twice the effectiveness – would have been a more agile formulation. Twice the work in half in the time sounds like pure Taylorism! So a friend and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Getting steamed!
on 8th February 2018
This happens quite often on a Friday night. It’s a cheap form of therapy 😉 Unfortunately though, it’s a required form of therapy. As anyone who has read the strips will have noticed, frustration at the lack of management engagement[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Job Interviews
on 2nd October 2017
I wish I was in a position to choose my customers 😉 In my experience an agile “transition” (I know, it’s a journey and you never get there, etc.) needs both top-down and bottom-up support – but just setting it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Business Agility
on 15th August 2017
This is borrowed straight from Klaus Leopold – quite literally, that’s his Kanban board in the comic! He has long been of the opinion that having a few agile development teams is a far cry from being an agile business.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Management Blues
on 18th June 2017
So, for a long, long time, I didn’t have a very high opinion of managers. Mostly because my expectation was that they would lead, whereas in reality they seemed to spend most of their time administrating! This bothered me, because[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Totally Teamful
on 17th May 2017
Yes, that is supposed to be the penny game in panel 3 😉 The original comic had “Our customers don’t even know we’re agile!” in the last panel. What I’d meant to convey was that I’ve seen too many agile[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Agile Allocated Resouces (Projects in Process – PIP Limits)
on 14th May 2017
Should have called this “Projects in Progress limits”. Seeing as this is an “agile” comic, I might just do that 😉 The original idea was that the only agile aspect of the set-up is the way the team has to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…