Tag Archives: coach

Problem-Solving and Teams

Posted on April 24, 2006 by Bill Wake

Problem-solving with teams. Continue reading →

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Origins of the Cubicle

Posted on March 22, 2006 by Bill Wake

Where the cubicle came from. Continue reading →

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Calling Your Shot

Posted on November 17, 2005 by Bill Wake

Call your shot, then do it. Continue reading →

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Review – Managing Agile Projects

Posted on September 16, 2005 by Bill Wake

Managing Agile Projects, Sanjiv Augustine. Addison-Wesley, 2005.Sanjiv answers the question, “What do managers do on an agile team?” to say that they have many functions: team building, alignment, adaptation, and more. I particularly appreciated the chapter on using a “light … Continue reading →

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The Roots of Lean – Kaizen

Posted on September 3, 2005 by Bill Wake

Training Within Industry as a source for lean ideas. Continue reading →

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Schwerpunkt = Focal Point

Posted on September 2, 2005 by Bill Wake

What’s the focus? Continue reading →

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Review – Designing Organizations for High Performance

Posted on May 17, 2005 by Bill Wake

Designing Organizations for High Performance, David P. Hanna. Addison-Wesley, 1988. A basic book in the area of Organization Development. Its theories operate at a cultural level as much as a process level. The core is an analysis of tasks, structure, … Continue reading →

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Review – Software by Numbers

Posted on May 16, 2005 by Bill Wake

Software by Numbers, Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang. Prentice-Hall, 2004. An MMF – “minimal marketable feature” – represents a unit of functionality that has value. This book shows how incremental delivery and incremental funding of MMFs can work together to … Continue reading →

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What’s in Your Team Room?

Posted on May 1, 2005 by Bill Wake

What’s in your team room? I summarize responses from the extremeprogramming newsgroup. Continue reading →

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Review – Fearless Change

Posted on March 18, 2005 by Bill Wake

Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas. Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising, Addison-Wesley, 2005. How do you help a new idea along? This book uses patterns to suggest ways to make that happen. The first part of the book … Continue reading →

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OOPSLA ’04 Trip Report

Posted on December 5, 2004 by Bill Wake

A trip report from OOPSLA ’04, Vancouver, BC, Oct. 24-28. Continue reading →

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Scrum Gathering Oct ’04

Posted on December 4, 2004 by Bill Wake

The Scrum gathering was a workshop gathered for a couple days in Denver, this past October ['04]. We worked in three groups: metrics, process, and facilitation. Continue reading →

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Review – The Agile Manager’s Guide to Coaching to Maximize Performance

Posted on November 18, 2004 by Bill Wake

The Agile Manager’s Guide to Coaching to Maximize Performance, Jack Cullen and Len D’Innocenzo. Velocity Business Publishing, 1999.This is a slim volume with a few nice ideas about coaching from a supervisor or manager’s perspective. It’s not “deep” into the … Continue reading →

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Coaching Charts Exercise – Answers

Posted on October 21, 2004 by Bill Wake

Coaching chart exercises – answers. Continue reading →

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Scrum from Hell

Posted on October 20, 2004 by Bill Wake

Practice standup meetings with a dysfunctional one. Continue reading →

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