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New Book Review: "The Human Side of Postmortems"

New book review for The Human Side of Postmortems: Managing Stress and Cognitive Biases, by Dave Zwieback, O'Reilly, 2013, reposted here: The subject of postmortems should definitely get more attention in the workplace, although properly conducted agile retrospectives are more in vogue these days in the technology space

Past Book Review (May 26, 2007): "The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook: A Quick Reference Guide to 100 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed, by Michael L. George, John Maxey, David Rowlands, and Mark Price, McGraw-Hill Education, 2004, reposted here: This text is simply

Scrum: What's in a Name?

Scrumpdillyishus or Scrumdidilyumptious? While pondering potential titles for this blog post about my work experiences with software development methodologies over the years and my eventual usage of the Scrum process framework, I eventually recalled the Dairy Queen slogan, "Scrumpdillyishus", and thought that perhaps I might use it as

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) Training

Notes taken for posterity during two days of Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) training recently provided by Juniper Hill Associates at The Ohio State University earlier this month. Much like my notes for Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training 3 years ago which you can find here and here, these notes

Past Book Review (October 21, 2007): "Software by Numbers"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Software by Numbers: Low-Risk, High-Return Development , by Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang, Prentice Hall, 2003, reposted here: This book caught my attention because I was searching for a decent book on ROI and software development, and Dr. Jane

Agile Wall Board Hacks: Heat Map

Early this year, I set up a traditional agile wall board for my last client project, and this post is a modified and expanded version of an internal post that I had written about this experience at my consulting firm employer, which I will likely modify once again for our

New Book Review: "Enterprise Analytics"

New book review for Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data, edited by Thomas H. Davenport, FT Press, 2012, reposted here: This book is a collection of eighteen essays on enterprise analytics by fourteen different authors, ten written or co-written by the editor, who also wrote "

New Book Review: "Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture"

New book review for Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture: Based on the Competing Values Framework (Third Edition), by Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn, Jossey-Bass, 2011, reposted here: In the introduction to this book, the authors share the familiar Tom Peters quote, "If you're not confused,

New Book Review: "Lean Integration"

New book review for Lean Integration: An Integration Factory Approach to Business Agility, by John G. Schmidt and David Lyle, Addison-Wesley, 2010, reposted here: A text published several years ago by the same authors, "Integration Competency Center: An Implementation Methodology", initially captured my interest in this recently released

Certified ScrumMaster Training: Day 2

Notes taken for posterity during the second of two days of a Certified ScrumMaster Training course that some of my colleagues and I attended this week. These notes are only intended to call out some areas that I found of particular interest during training, and are not intended in any