Tag: agile
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Order without authority
Charles Lambdin writes about the science of agile, using Jonathan Rauch’s book “Kindly Inquisitors” as a guide of the history of philosophy, politics, and science of agile’s evolutionary mindset: The thread running through all of this is the deemphasis of central planning and privileged positions, of pretending we can know the future or declare immutable…
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Use the right tools
Matt Gemmell writes about the tools to facilitate his writing. These tools have been selected to meet the specific needs for the three phases of his writing process (which loosely match the GDS agile phases of discovery, alpha and beta). Just as Matt has specialist tools for each phase (GoodNotes, MindNode and Ulysses), my own…
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Fund teams, not projects
A lot of teams work in an agile way. Many organisations “are agile”. But in the public sector, there is a crucial element of an agile approach that is rarely conquered. Funding. This post is a collection of three articles from across the web which explain why organisations must fund teams, not projects. Projects are…
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Poles apart
I’ve just read Poles Apart: Why People Turn Against Each Other, and How to Bring Them Together after having it recommended by an old colleague. It is well researched, insightful and accessibly written. It has earned many highlights on my Kindle and I recommend you read it yourself. Here are some of the quotes that…
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Robert Watson-Watt – inventor of radar and early agile practitioner
A friend and ex colleague has recently returned to blogging with aplomb, posting a piece about being a recovering perfectionist. It made me think about a recent BBC drama Castles in the Sky, telling the story of Robert Watson-Watt’s development of the first radar in WWII. An inventive scientist who pulled together an unlikely team…