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Author Archives: azheglov
Kanban Is For Attacking Flow Problems, Not For Dropping Iterations
I’d like to chime in on the discussion started by Abby Fichtner, a.k.a. HackerChick in Kanban is the New Scrum and continued by many people in comments and blog posts (such as this one). I don’t find anything to object … Continue reading
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Notes from Agile Coach Camp: Explain This Picture
This one continues the series of delayed posts about the sessions that I led or contributed to at the Agile Coach Camp Montreal that took place several months ago. (Earlier in this series: the Marshall Model and the Lean Startup). … Continue reading
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A Goldratt Reader’s View of “No Child Left Behind”
I read a book earlier this year that I should have read much earlier: Eliyahu Goldratt’s The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. The book is not new, written in the 1980s, when many American manufacturers struggled to compete with … Continue reading
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Building Domain Model Checklist
In our last book club meeting, we revisited Chapter 7 of Eric Evans’ Domain-Driven Design and tried to create a checklist for turning a domain-model into an object-oriented design. This is what we came up with. 0. The model is … Continue reading
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Notes from Agile Coach Camp: The Lean Startup
This post continues a series of delayed posts about Agile Coach Camp 2011 in Montreal – cross-posted here and on the camp Wiki. Dave Rooney lead it with his notes and impressions from SFAgile 2011. Very quickly, here are some … Continue reading
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Build-Measure-Learn Is a Kanban Optimized for Response Time
In 2002, I had the only layoff of my career, from a company that had spent some time building a product (and they didn’t come) and landed right away in a DevOpsy lean-startapish Internet ad firm. Of course, words such … Continue reading
Lean Coffee with Steve Blank
I wrote a summary of our book club meeting with the author Steve Blank, discussing the main points of his book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Now I want to write a quick note reflecting on the mechanics of … Continue reading
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Observations at the Passport Office
I spent 34 minutes today at a local Passport Canada office applying for my passport. It is a pretty lean operation. It was actually a very busy day in their office, in the middle of the summer, lots of people … Continue reading
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Book Club Meeting With Steve Blank
Our Agile/Lean book club is wrapping up The Four Steps to the Epiphany and the author Steve Blank joined us for the last weekly meeting. Here is my transcript of the most important points. The main takeaways from the book. … Continue reading
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Learning at the Coding Dojo
Last weekend, I went to the Communitech Coding Dojo in St. Jacobs, not far from Waterloo. Coding dojo is different from a code retreat. In a code retreat, you have the same problem all day and use each iteration to … Continue reading
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