Tom Cagley & Associates help organizations unlock the effectiveness of software development and maintenance teams by focusing on people, agility, and feedback.
We deliver the training, guidance, and coaching you need to make the transformation of your organization and team successful. We help you unlock the potential to improve cycle time, productivity, quality, morale, and customer satisfaction and develop the tools to prove it.
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
Chapter 15 of Tame your Work Flow, introduces the concept of a MOVE, which stands for Minimal Outcome-Value Effort. Steve and Daniel use the construct to help define an atomic... Read More
I find Chapter 14 useful in a book of useful chapters. In this chapter, Steve and Daniel explain the foreshadowed idea of full-kitting and introduce two different versions of kanban... Read More
Those that control work entry, control the health of a team, and at a product level, the health of the organization. Messrs. Tendon and Doiron discuss portfolio and work entry... Read More
This week we tackle Chapter 6 of Tame your Work Flow, Throughput accounting ties a number of threads together for me. The big one is the linkage between getting value... Read More
This week we begin Part 2 of Daniel Doiron and Steve Tendon’s Tame your Work Flow. Part 2 transitions us from improving wait time and flow efficiency and begins a... Read More
This week we tackle Chapter 4 of Tame your Work Flow, The chapter is titled “Utility of Flawed Mental Models.” The goal of the chapter is to make sure we... Read More
Announcements Happy Saturday! In the United States, today is the 4th of July, which is Independence Day. Personally, more importantly, it is my wife’s birthday. This is the long way... Read More
When I introduced the logistics of the re-read of Thinking Fast and Slow on April 20, 2019, I anticipated that we would complete in 42 weeks. Doing the math, we... Read More
