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Backlog Hand Limit

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:16 May 2022
  • Post category:Planned Attention

We've all faced that struggle of modern-day life where the checkout at the supermarket turns into an unfair battle. The minute you start unloading your cart, the race is on.…

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Kanban needs more focus

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:13 January 2022
  • Post category:Planned Attention

Work In Progress Limits are the main attraction of a Kanban-style workflow. By limiting the number of concurrent tasks in a certain state to a hard number, the team gets…

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Strategy needs a sacrifice

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:1 September 2021
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

Strategy is one of those words that mean something different to different people. There is no one perfect definition, but we generally feel the difference between tactics and strategy. The…

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Delegation is a skill

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:31 August 2021
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

Early in my PM career, I was working for a marketing agency. I was responsible for a newsletter that went out every Friday morning. It was consistently late. They needed…

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Solutioning is a tragedy.

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:29 July 2021
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

A few years back I worked with a customer who ran a WordPress-based e-commerce site. As a way of boosting sales, the Marketing department had come up with a coupon…

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Why the Hybrid Model will fail

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:5 July 2021
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

Software developers love distributed teams. Poll after poll shows this and while you will find the odd exception, the trend seems clear. It's not that the pandemic has shown developers…

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The real divide

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:1 July 2021
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

Years ago, I was visiting a prospective client and was invited to meet the team at a farewell drink at the office. The CIO told me about their remote policy:…

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A little less talking

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:8 April 2021
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

Communication is the core of software development. We shape our solutions through conversations with customers, stakeholders and colleagues. We evolve architecture through debate and discussions. We write code to talk…

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Making a business case for legacy systems

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:30 March 2021
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

Before we invest, we make a business case. We put costs versus benefits, project it over time and when the value exceeds the costs in a relatively short period, we…

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Quality isn’t good enough

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:26 February 2021
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

A professional software developer needs to balance quality and deadlines. That shouldn't be a controversial statement, but these days, it seems to be one. Whenever I discuss this topic, I'm…

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  • Backlog Hand Limit
  • Kanban needs more focus
  • Strategy needs a sacrifice
  • Delegation is a skill
  • Solutioning is a tragedy.
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