Views: Yours, Mine, and Ours

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What’s Wrong with this Picture? Have you ever read something that bothered you, but couldn’t put your finger on exactly why? I found myself in that position after I read George Dinwiddie’s recent blog entry about Blocking. Scott Ambler’s...

A rose by any other name

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is probably something else. I’ve been reading some interesting emails concerning names in an Scrum environment. Backlog in particular seems to generate energy. Several valid points for change have been made. Backlog felt negative to one team, and they wanted to...

Problems vs Opportunities

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Problems or Opportunities? Where should you focus your effort? Kurt Simmons asked this question in ProblemsVersusOpportunites. He shared some (what I think) are valid thoughts. I agree with them on at a cursory level. But in keeping with this blog’s theme, An...

Jim Said More

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One of the smartest things I did as Interim VP of Engineering for Padcom was let Don talk himself into coming to play with us over the course of several hours overlooking the Puget Sound one weekend morning. Padcom was a small tech company with some unique...

Fearless Change: The book review

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I believe in reading books. My wife believes I buy books to hold the carpet on the floor in my office. I recently finished reading Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas. My thoughts about the book … If you don’t have the book, get it. If you...

Problem Solving – 2 Year Old Fashion

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I recently had the opportunity to observe problem solving at its more pure state. We took our grand-daughters, Jessica (4), and Nikki (2) to the park. For a period of time, they played on a “jungle gym” that looks like   Being older gave Jessica...