Posts filed under: Re-Read Saturday

Re-read Saturday, Actionable Agile Volume II, Week 8, Chapter 7,  XmR Charts and the Four Basic Metrics of Flow

Chapter 7 of   Mastering Work Intake: From Chaos to Predictable Delivery dives into the nuances of using XmR charts for four flow metrics. They are: This chapter is hugely... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Actionable Agile Volume II, Week 7, Chapter 6 – Detecting Signals on PBCs

Chapter Six, of  Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability, is titled Detecting Signals on PBCs. Finding a signal in the noise is like separating the wheat from... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Actionable Agile Volume II, Week 6, Chapter 5 – How Much Data?

The question of how much data is required to determine what is happening in a system is a perennial bugaboo. Those predisposed to acting tend to think less is more,... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Actionable Agile Volume II, Week 5, Chapter 4, Part 2 – Process Behaviour Charts

We continue with Chapter Four of Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability, titled Process Behaviour Charts, this week. Today we construct an XmR chart.   We begin with... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Actionable Agile Volume II, Week 4, Chapter 4 – Process Behaviour Charts

Charts. The chapter corrected a misconception I have had for at least twenty years which we will get to in Part 2 of our re-read of chapter 4 (we are... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Actionable Agile Volume II, Week 3, Chapter 3 – Variation and Predictability

Vacanti begins Chapter 3 of Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability by Daniel S. Vacanti, by reminding the reader: “A predictable process behaves in a way we expect it... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Actionable Agile Volume II, Week 2, Chapters 1 and 2, Wilt the Stilt and Variation Defined

This week we begin the read of Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability by Daniel S. Vacanti in earnest covering Chapters One and Two. These two chapters... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Actionable Agile Metrics, Volume 2, Logistics and Preface

Today we begin the read of Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability by Daniel S. Vacanti. This is the second of Mr. Vacanti’s books we have covered... Read More

Leadership is Language  Re-read Saturday, Week 12, Chapter 11: Saving The El Faro and Final Notes

In Chapter 11 Marquet uses his new playbook to reimagine how the El Faro could have been saved. This is the last chapter in Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power... Read More

Leadership is Language  Re-read Saturday, Week 11, Chapter 10: The Red-Blue Operating System

Chapter 10 of Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say – and What You Don’t is titled, The Red-Blue Operating System. Marquet starts this chapter with the... Read More