Long line to get inside this famous ‘Georgetown Cupcake’ Road leading up straight to Georgetown University… the lovely O Street. Wisconsin Street.
Month: November 2019
Thanksgiving series…
At Georgetown, Washington DC
Thank You
Thank you, everyone!
There Are Two Sides Of A Bridge… And The Bridge Is…
Last night, my wife, son, daughter and I watched the movie, Frozen II. We had a great time; the movie theatre was nice (gigantic screen–IMAX;
Thanksgiving
Be thankful…
What Is The Focus of Team Backlog Refinement
Look at the upcoming stories — these could come from: the program level (i.e. team’s part of a feature/enabler, team’s own context (i.e. refractors, maintenance,
General George S. Patton Quotes For All
For those product managers and product owners who are still telling teams on how to do things: ‘Don’t tell people how to do things, tell
SAFe Is Like A Huge Production Play
In SAFe, just like a huge production play like ‘The Nutcracker‘, each participant must know his/her role, know what he/she must do… and to do
The Power of Intent
Today, I tried to connect together a series of Bose speakers. I followed the instructions that came with it. For some reason, despite following the
Slow Down…
Here is a suggestion to leaders of companies transforming to Lean Agile: Slow down… you might be moving too fast that your teams can barely
Kanban … everywhere
Chick-fil-A… McDonalds… Firestone… Panera … where else?
Simplicity… is Essential
Mazda applied the 10th Principle of the Agile Manifesto! ‘Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential.‘ — Agile Manifesto Principle #10
The Power Of Acceptance Criteria
Acceptance criteria not only serve as a way to confirm one’s understanding — via conversations and collaborations with others — of the work on hand
The Snowball Effect
Start with a small win. In ‘Sales’ they call this first small win the ‘icebreaker sale’. Toastmasters call their first speech as ‘icebreaker speech’. Want
FAB becomes BAF
Features and Benefits (FAB) is what we are all familiar with. With SAFe 5.0’s customer centricity, this FAB is now BAF… Benefits and Features. Makes
Program Board
Scrum Masters of teams to populate the program board!
SAFe is Goals Driven, Not Prescriptive
SAFe is goals driven and not prescriptive. A goal-driven approach makes SAFe flexible and easy to scale. Companies scale agile based on factors that deliver
A Goal With A Strong Why
A goal with a strong ‘Why’ will not only pulls you forward but also pulls you through difficult times. Make your ‘Iteration Goals’ and your
Take Any SAFe 4.6 Course Now And Get Certified, You Will Have Free SAFe 5.O Certification Path — Read On
Hello everyone! Great news from Scaled Agile, Inc. (SAI) — the maker of SAFe. Read the image below. In that light, please go ahead and
To All Veterans, Thank You
Let’s take a moment of silence, this Veterans Day, to remember, thank and honor all our veterans. Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently
Coach and Rugby
Coach and rugby teams in a scrum This blog post is dedicate to my SSM class of Nov – 9-10! I think that they love
Fresh and Desirable
Want desirable — fresh — salad? Create it with friends! You want desirable product? Apply design thinking … don’t do it alone… collaborate… create it
Variations
XP Scrum ScrumXP Kanban KanbanXP ScrumBan What else?
Be Lightweight
Only do what you need to do to create value for the customer!
We Choose To Go To The Moon
Here is a model you — Business Owners, Epic Owners, Solutions Managers, Program Managers, Product Managers — can aspire to when you paint an aspirational
From Intent To Objective To Goals
Intent is a ‘broad stoke of the brush’ kind of sketch of what you want to achieve… without providing instructions on how to achieve it…
Chilling with Hot Coffee
It’s good to have downtime once in a while to combat ‘staleness’. Give your team some slack… downtime… they’ll come back refreshed with greater energy.
Mirage
It looks like I’m shopping in New York … But it’s just a nice illusion… a mirage. Banish mirages — unreal stuff — in your
Congratulations To…
Wesley So — the first FIDE World Fischer Random Chess 2019 Champion ! Per Wikipedia: Wesley Barbasa So (born October 9, 1993) is a Filipino-American[1][2] chess grandmaster and current World
