Retros are so utterly magical that I’m often given to exclaiming ‘Wow I love Retros!’ in the middle of a Retro, because the insights are incredibly simple to come by, and yet simply wouldn’t have been surfaced or released with the approach we’d used up until that point.

PART 2

One of a triptych on alternatives that disrupt traditional Human Resource methods with concepts that move us towards the Future of Work. The topic in the cross hairs today is The Position or Job Description, and the notion that Job Descriptions lead you down a path to performing that role, and that is maybe the worst outcome you could get.

PART 1

One of a triptych on alternatives that disrupt traditional Human Resource methods with concepts that move us towards the Future of Work. Agile working has become the new Way of Working. Once considered the territory of the reckless and sloppy, now most of the free world is considering how they can implement these better ways of working into their teams and orgs.

DAY 12… and the final post in the series. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behaviour accordingly. Did I hear someone say Retrospective?

DAY 11…The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams. Whoa, that’s a bit radical isn’t it? What are we saying here? That we don’t need managers?!

DAY 10… I’ll try and keep things real simple. Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential. We can illustrate this quite easily when you observe agile ways of working.

DAY 9… Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility. Strap in it’s going to get technical. In essence paying attention to technical design and refactoring allows the code base to maintain some functional integrity and at the same time expand for the next set of technical functionality, or features, required to meet a customer need.

DAY 8… Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.

DAY 7… Working software is the primary measure of progress. This slightly problematically worded principle only refers to software and very much a technology driven view of the world, we’ve evolved to know a lot more than we did in 2001.