(Parts of this posting were adapted from an email written by my business partner, Dale Kiefling)
We recently had the disconcerting experience of having a client cancel our engagement because they’d felt that we weren’t being agile enough. In hindsight there were a number of reasons why this might have happened but I think the most important one was simply that we did not provide a clear overview of the engagement. This meant that the client was confused about the value of what we were doing. I myself am confused about how the situation arose. I thought we had been very clear but obviously that was not the case.
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. I had heard that he had a story to tell about using agile methods and principles on a house renovation project. I contacted him by email and he agreed to an email interview.
by Michale George as well as some new links. This article is very important for people who are looking at process improvements, lean, agile, or otherwise.
by Malcolm Gladwell, there is a chapter that describes a number of fascinating experiments. These experiments show how we can be influenced by very subtle cues in our environment. This is a very important lesson for us to apply in our work environments and in particular in our agile work.