Posts filed under: Re-Read Saturday

Re-Read Saturday Why Limit WIP Week 9, Chapter 8, Awareness

This week’s chapter of   Why Limit WIP: We Are Drowning In Work opens with a quote from The Dalai Lama linking effective self-discipline with awareness of consequences. The chapter,... Read More

Suggestions For The Next Re-read

On June 18th, 2016 I started the Re-read Saturday feature on the Software Process and Measurement Blog. On that Saturday we began re-reading Extreme Programming Explained.  Nearly eight years later,... Read More

Re-Read Saturday Why Limit WIP Week 8, Chapter 7, Focus

Chapter 7 is one of my favorites in  Why Limit WIP: We Are Drowning In Work. One of the chronic problems I help teams deal with is the perceived need... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Project to Product, Week 11 – Conclusion and Final Notes

As 2021 comes to a close we bring our re-read of Project to Product to a close as well (buy a copy and dive into the book https://amzn.to/2WzvPac – Amazon... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Project to Product, Week 10 – Chapter 9: Value Stream Management

Chapter 9 of Project to Product (buy a copy and re-read the book with us https://amzn.to/2WzvPac, Amazon Affiliate Link) ties the three layers of the author’s model together and exposes... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Project to Product, Week 9 – Chapter 8: Specialized Tools and the Value Stream

This week, Chapter 8 of Project to Product  https://amzn.to/2WzvPac (Amazon Affiliate Link). I was presented with a scenario this week in which product, UX, development, testing, and security operated within... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Project to Product, Week 8, Chapter 7: The Ground Truth of Enterprise Tool Networks

Before we dive in I would like to share an observation. I have re-read any number of books over the years. Some have not held up well and I just... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Project to Product, Week 7, Chapter 6: Tracking Disruption

This week, the PC version of the Kindle software I use seems to have lost its copy of Project to Product — I have gotten reasonably adept at reading on... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Project to Product, Week 6, Chapter 5: Connecting to Business Results

As the previous chapters have highlighted, we can measure the flow items that enter and exit a value stream. There are a number of suitcase words (words that have many... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Project to Product, Week 5, Chapter 4: Capturing Flow Metrics

As a reminder, the Flow Framework defines four flow items (things we are interested in measuring in this framework).  They are: Features Defects Risks Debts Using the framework is premised... Read More