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We began our re-read of Tame your Work Flow by Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron, on Saturday, May 23rd. The world has changed a lot as we worked our way... Read More
I recently interviewed several successful technical entrepreneurs. Most have created multiple successful organizations. They have shared several common threads. One of the most basic of those threads is the need... Read More
Today we tackle the whole of Part 7 which is Chapter 21 and the Epilogue. Next week we will complete our re-read of Tame Your Work Flow with concluding remarks. ... Read More
Guest Post by Diane Davidson The future of Finance was already changing from your typical accounting, auditing, and control functions, and that was before the pandemic hit in March. The... Read More
A few logistical comments before we dive into chapter 20. After this week we have three weeks left in this re-read including our customary debrief. When we decided on Tame... Read More
Getting the work you commit to getting done in an iteration or sprint is not constrained to a conversation about Scrum or Scrumban. Timeboxing is common in almost all work... Read More
Over the years I have gravitated towards the idea that work entry issues are the single clearest indicator of problems in an organization. My first job after getting my Bachelors’s... Read More
Cue the eerie sound effects from low budget science fiction movies that signal time travel. After publishing our re-read of Chapter 19 last week, Steve Tendon sent me a message,... Read More
One of the classic issues that pop up when teams chronically don’t complete work they say they will, in the time they say they will is that they are taking... Read More
This week we tackle Chapter 19 of Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s Tame your Work Flow. Chapter 19 combines many of the moving parts from the previous chapters into a... Read More