Extending Discovery into Business Value
Our industry often sets its context too small to address the question of why software is so expensive. While addressing costs, we missed optimizing… Read More
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Is Developing Software REALLY expensive? Another thought…
The Lean Software and Systems Consortium conference in Atlanta left me with a lot to think about. My main reason to go was to… Read More
Book Review – Beautiful Teams
I got beautiful teams a few months ago and tore into it hoping for lots of wonderful insights about how to help culture/foster/create functional… Read More
Another Milestone for SEP
The Lean Software & Systems Conference started today. This is the most SEP has ever been involved in a conference in terms of… Read More
3Q Book Review: The Trusted Advisor
The Trusted Advisor by David H. Maister, Robert Galford, and Charles Green What’s the point? A friend of my boss recommended this… Read More
3Q Book Review: The Logic of Failure
The Logic of Failure by Dietrich Dorner What’s the point? The premise of the book is that humans are notoriously bad at… Read More
The file exists
Maybe I should title this post ‘How to write a better error message’ instead. I just went on a wild goose chase trying to… Read More
3Q Book Review: Linchpin
I really hate opening a blog post and seeing that it’s five pages long, 7 point font, dense text. Even if the author is… Read More
Story Mapping – Getting Started
In our recent training, Jeff Patton presented a structured discovery process centered around the story map and personas, neatly packaged into about a… Read More