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The Patrol Method and Objections to Self-Directed Agile Teams

The Agile Manager

In the previous post , we saw there are quite a few similarities between the Patrol method and self-directed Agile teams. Of course, trust is earned and not given, and while it takes time to develop it takes only seconds to erode. Self-directed teams are a departure from traditional command-and-control hierarchy.

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Four Questions to Manage Your Value Stream

CollabNet VersionOne

As noted in the 12th Annual State of Agile Report , 48 percent of respondents said that their organization is currently undergoing a DevOps initiative. One of the main reasons teams set out on a DevOps journey is because they want their organizations to continuously improve. We need to be able to identify bottlenecks and poor quality.

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Train-Wreck Management

LeanEssays

“On October 5, 1841, two Western Railroad passenger trains collided somewhere between Worchester, Massachusetts and Albany, New York, killing a conductor and a passenger and injuring seventeen passengers. Scholtes calls it the "train-wreck" chart. That disaster marked the beginning of a new management era." [1] Process or People?

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

This working paper was submitted as a chapter in The International Handbook of Lean Organization , Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming. The democratization of programming arrived with the public Internet in 1991, and within a decade it became clear that the old model for developing software was obsolete. How are they getting along?