Category: management
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One big idea over many small ideas
In a time of information overload, change & disruption, then thinking through your own philosophy, principles or strategy is more important than ever, even if you have less time to do so.
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My regrets and why I’m rethinking Product Managers
Regrets? I’ve had a few, particularly when it comes to books. Take Business Patterns for Software Developers, perhaps the book I’m proudest off, certainly the book which was hardest and longest to write. While I’m very proud of the book I regret the name. I remember several conversations with my editor about what to call…
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Detailed management data on 1,211 software projects
Until April this year there were only two non-trivial publicly available software project datasets (i.e., Sip and CESAW) containing software project data relating to human effort, e.g., people time, elapsed time, and tasks performed. The SiP data contains 10-years of software development tasks by one company, and the CESAW data contains the tasks involved in…
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Rational irrationality and anarchy in the workplace
Our mental models need updating. In a garbage can world rational thinking might be making things worse, the only repeatable method is in the rear view mirror.
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Agile: not Dead, but evolving
Head on: is agile dead? No, it is everywhere. But the mania is over. Agile won’t return, but the ideas in it will.
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What I’ve been getting wrong about PDCA
The 4 steps of the PDCA cycle are not equal, the fourth step might be the shortest, and it might be the most overlooked, but it is the most important.
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Patterns for building a learning organization
Patterns for building a learning organization – download for free
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4 quick fixes to bring order out of choas
In which I discuss four quick fixes I use to bring order from chaos plus a couple which are slower
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Remotivating data analysed for another purpose
The motivation for fitting a regression model has a major impact on the model created. Some of the motivations include: practicing software developers/managers wanting to use information from previous work to help solve a current problem, researchers wanting to get their work published seeks to build a regression model that show they have discovered something…
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Embracing shared leadership
The idea of shared leadership better describes modern work teams and resolves problems around self-organising and self-managing teams The post Embracing shared leadership first appeared on Allan Kelly.