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Re: BlogScaling Agility or Bureaucracy

Craig Brown — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 06:41:53 -0000

Congratulations on a very well written peice. Thanks for putting it together.

Re: Security eject Trump supporters from Manning for “grab them by the pussy” chants

Craig Brown — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:55:59 -0000

Pepe you say...
And so I must search.

http://www.thedailybeast.co...

Re: Which Laptop Should My Daughter Bring to College?

Craig Brown — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:10:14 -0000

Buy a $300 chrome book and install Linux. Totally cheap and good. And she'll use open office and the like so software costs will also be lower.

Re: derailleur consulting, inc. - Anatomy of a #NoEstimates Twitter Dialogue

Craig Brown — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 02:42:05 -0000

Chris... so YOU are Paul Culmsee's Canadian agile mate :)

I looked at the dialogue map, but couldn't really make sense of the discussion. There are lots of contrary assertions and it appears calls for evidence are left unanswered most of the time.

Also, the whole "No..." thing is another tricky idea; the goal was to raise discussion around the idea rather than to assert a particular practice or approach. That goal seems to have been achieved.

Re: derailleur consulting, inc. - The #NoEstimates Puzzle Experiment

Craig Brown — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:32:50 -0000

Great to see you join in this conversation Mike. I think you'll find you are very aligned to what the #NoEstimates crowd are saying behind the hashtag.

As for this; "I'll assert that a team without a PO will in this case outperform one with a PO."

So, so true.

Re: derailleur consulting, inc. - The #NoEstimates Puzzle Experiment

Craig Brown — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 21:28:28 -0000

I just emailed Neil with the proposal to do this at a Melbourne agile meetup group.

Also - this definitely brings to mind the #NoProductOwner meme as well. (Product owner as a high risk dependency.) A wrong decicion there has such high impact on overall results. Couldn't we do better by removing arbitrary middlemen?

Re: derailleur consulting, inc. - A Short #NoEstimates FAQ

Craig Brown — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 21:06:56 -0000

Thanks for this great post Chris.

There is a strong proclivity to go to estimating v not estimating in these #NoEstimates blog posts.

I have had the fortune of sinking several pints with Neil and when you get him limbered up his main point is that estimating and deadliens should usually (but not always) be a second order conversation. The conversation you should be having in your limited time with your client/sponsor is "Are we focusing on the right things? Are we delivering sufficient value?" which in my head sounds like addressing the weaker scope pillar of the project management paradigm.

More lines on this please.

Re: Big, Upfront Conferences

Craig Brown — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:12:19 -0000

Tobias, Ed Wong and I run something called LAST conference in Melbourne. We need to have some semblance of an offering before we open the doors and made a conscious decision to not make it an Open Space conference because of the lack of coherence this causes.

Our constituents have multiple goals and many want to be informed, rather the exchange ideas. We also want to curate the content to a degree to ensure it's a quality experience for everyone.

However, we specifically ask our presenters/facilitators to manage their own content (on Laynrd) and to not give too much detail (beyond the general theme and style of delivery) when making proposals.

It's easy. All you have to do is trust the people that are going to be doing the work and give some control away about how you manage things.

This year we sold out before even announcing any content. There is no barrier to doing this for anyone running a conference in the agile community.

Re: What is Fist of Five?

Craig Brown — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:54:39 -0000

Derek would you mind explain why it works?

Re: Shame

Craig Brown — Mon, 28 May 2012 06:31:55 -0000

It's hard to see something shameful in that story. Becoming vulnerable is a brave thing. So is learning to trust people, and if course ourselves.

Great post. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Looking for 100 Agile Voices we should hear more from

Craig Brown — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:26:18 -0000

Yes, they are well known. But they weren't on the other lists I don't think.
Anyway - I like what you are doing. Great idea.

Re: Looking for 100 Agile Voices we should hear more from

Craig Brown — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:36:35 -0000

Some Australians

Rowan Bunning and Kane Marr who campaigned across the country teaching Scrum for the last few years. They have to be significant figures in Australia's agile journey.

Also Geoff Burns from Australian Computer Society, who has been active in arranging and facilitating agile related Special Interest Groups, bring Agile to the IT establishment.

Ed Wong who blogs as ProjectsLittleHelper and is a driving force in our newest local Agile conference.

Jason Yip, David Joyce as lean and systems thinking voices. Also active community builders in their cities (Sydney, Melbourne)

@AgileRenee at the Agile Forrest in Brisbane

There are also a couple of 'not specifically agile' guys who also bring a lot of goood critical thinking to the table; Paul Culmsee and

Re: The Agile Explorer

Craig Brown — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:07:24 -0000

"
I used to believe this was what a ScrumMaster would do "

Interesting point. When I criticise PRINCE2 I say 'the model *can* work, but when we see it in action it doesn't.'

That ideal v actual worldview is a way many of us avoid thinking about what we should really be doing.

Re: The Agile Explorer

Craig Brown — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:29:09 -0000

I doubt any sort of shift would be large or sustainable, and it probably isn't what this role is about. It's more about changing people's expectations of what can be done. Going and making interventions as experiments and leaving a wake of people with new ideas.

I like the idea of this role as an additional one to some of the others

Re: The Agile Explorer

Craig Brown — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:39:00 -0000

Nice idea. That's a little bit like what I do these days and I really like it and it seems to enable other people to do a good job. Kind of complicated to explain the payoff, but it is there.

How about this also - in the vein of Tom Peters;

Chief Agile (&) Collaboration Office, aka CACO.

Of you fake it you get a CACOphoney

lulz to me

Re: Why Porter's Model No Longer Works

Craig Brown — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:19:09 -0000

Dear HBR, please test your pop up ads o an android tablet. You'll make friends.

Re: Federal Law Blocks Netflix, Facebook Integration — But Should It?

Craig Brown — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:41:19 -0000

Steamy tear jerkers eh? What about the porn?!

Re: Federal Law Blocks Netflix, Facebook Integration — But Should It?

Craig Brown — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:38:44 -0000

Well, you know corporate IT. That button could cost several hundred million. 200k is a bargain.

Re: The Influencers Verdict: the Google+ example

Craig Brown — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:51:37 -0000

Shouldn't there be a +1 button on this blog post?

Re: The Gemba Walk

Craig Brown — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:37:30 -0000

Every day!

Re: Make Peace with Always-On Access

Craig Brown — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:42:24 -0000

There is the risk that wifi has negative affects on the environment.

Re: Finding Piracy’s Tipping Point

Craig Brown — Sun, 22 May 2011 20:37:51 -0000

Interesting post. Another useful strategy is to provide alternatives for people who turn to piracy. This could be through infrastructure development or a range of other initiatives which can provide an alternative to the root cause of piracy being sufficiently viable as to warrant the risk.

The sad thing is that this sort of cross organisational work is virtually impossible given the ways organisations bound themselves with local agendas and bureaucracy.

Re: True Measure of Character

Craig Brown — Tue, 17 May 2011 05:48:21 -0000

8~/

Re: Agile Certification Survey Results

Craig Brown — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:44:10 -0000

Short term useful. Long term bad. Certification does different things for different people but the majority see it as an end, not a beginning. And that's a problem.

PMI are beside the point here. They are doing what their constituents and the market demand.

Re: Better Projects: Bad Processes? Here's some tips

Craig Brown — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:48:18 -0000

How do you resolve the local optimization issue? It's a leadership thing. (Not so much management.)

People need to take the local short term hit to achieve the big long term wins. They need leaders to make this leap.