I thought I would be more tired, I thought I would try and talk myself into sleeping in, I thought that this would be the weekend that I cracked, if I was going to crack. But here it is day 12 of #21earlydays and I am still going strong. When I complete the habit creation …
As I mentioned previously on the dawn of day 8 of #21earlydays I found myself longing for a sleep in. As I am experimenting with building habits and bedding down behavioural changes I am not surprised that I felt that, but it was a wake up call (pun intended!) as I know that as I …
Responsible is a powerful term and I have used it a lot in posts, most notably my post about Learning to Thrive. But I have also been reflecting on how the word can have a variety of meanings. Responsible to me also means that a team or person is able to make a response to …
Reflecting on Day 7 - I do a lot of writing and content creation in my role, and now that I am up at 4.30 I realise that I have actually done this, as in getting up early, most of my life. It must be my subconscious kicking in and kicking me out of bed …
Needed the alarm on Saturday morning, badly! Normally I wake just before the alarm, or the instant it goes off, but Saturday morning I was well and truely asleep and my alarm went for 4 minutes before it roused me. The temptation to turn it off and roll over was huge, but I stuck …
Day 4 dawns bright and clear, oh, hang on...not yet! It is still pitch black outside, and I have not checked the weather yet, but it is Brisbane so it will be another glorious day! Day 4 already and I'm up and I'm on leave today and I still got up. I'm going to be …
Per this series of posts I am conducting an experiment to see how getting up at 4.30 am impacts on my productivity, outlook and general well being. Day 2 - conclusion It seems that early starts don't bother me. In fact, they do seem to work for me. I get to work engergised and focused, …
Per my previous post I am trying different methods and approaches to how I can increase productivity and maintain my self. Currently I am undergoing the "wake up early" experiment. I'm getting up at 4.30 every morning for 21 days to see how that impacts on my productivity and mindset. Day 1 - continued The …
I'm always researching and learning about new and interesting ways to look at life, the universe and everything. Lately I have been focusing on personal head-space and how to increase your ability to think more clearly, as well as provide the clarity of thinking that I want. At the moment everything seems to be pointing …
Do you struggle to deliver on time? Do you wonder what you can do about it? Here are some thoughts, ideas and approaches that I have tried over time to great success. Traditional: Extend deadlines Reduce Scope (Requirements to be delivered) Increase team size, but only at the right time (don't forget that when work …
MVP is a term that is bandied about quite freely. I think it is also poorly understood and thus poorly used. It does not mean Phase 1 or any other thing except MVP. To me MVP stands for: Minimal - the smallest, leanest, least amount of activities that can provide value - usually in the …
This is the third part of my post about my presentation at LASTMelbourne on 29th June 2017. Part 1 is here, Part 2 is here. These are the final 5 factors to consider with a transformation. 6. Technology; make the toolsets enablers of the people and the process. Ensure that they are actively supporting the …
This is the content of my session that I presented at LAST Melbourne on 29th June 2017. Make it Real to Make it Right - how to think about creating a meaningful and sustained transformation within an organisation. The talk covers 10 key areas for consideration when aiming to transform. The focus is on building …
The title is from Gojko Adzic and his work "Specification by Example". I think it is such an essential phrase that applies in almost every area of delivery, but I found it resonates with me for my work in Transformations. This is the slide deck for the presentation that I have just delivered at LAST …
"Fail fast Fail well" "Fail fast, fail well" is a well used mantra for continuous improvement practices. However we have discovered that people and teams do not know "how" to fail! This makes it hard for them to fail well. Traditionally failure is seen as a bad thing, something to avoid and or deny, and …
With all transformations there has to be an overarching point to the transformation. For me that point is not about money or productivity or improvement to a process. For me the point of any transformative approach has to be about the people and the teams they create. The model that I have focused on is …
My main focus in life is to find head space for people and teams and organisations. I honestly believe that there is so much white noise in our lives that we struggle to find time to think and thus to innovate and grow. The goal is to lower the cognitive load of the "day to …
I'm reading Angela Duckworth's "Grit" at the moment (https://angeladuckworth.com/) and it is really resonating with me - particularly as I reflect on our coaching and transformation practices. We sometimes struggle when the teams we are transforming enter the montage - you know...that bit in the movie where all the hero's hard work happens, training sessions, …
In November I was once again involved in the CukeUp AU conference. I spoke about testing using the mindset of conducting experiments. The slides from my session are here: designingyourtestingexperiments There is a lot of talk in modern teams about experimentation. Classically an experiment is a very structured series of activities designed to find something out. Sounds a lot like testing and is in direct alignment with the concepts around TDD, BDD and ATDD. This session will discuss how we design testing experiments that are valuable and provide the right insights to the right people, at the right time. What is an experiment? Why do we experiment? How is testing and experimentation aligned? How do we structure testing experiments? How we do learn and adjust based on the findings – pass or fail!
BVCs, TOWs and POWs are very important tools in the agile world but what exactly are they? BVCs are Big Visible Charts, TOWs are Things on Walls and POWs are Plain Old Whiteboards – information radiators all. Why are they valuable tools? Because everyone can see them, study them and ideally understand them. By making …
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