Mar 11, 2018
SPaMCAST 485 features essay titled “A Simple Checklist for Choosing a Mentor.” Everyone needs a mentor, but they are hard to find, and even when you find someone willing they might not be the right person! Enter: a checklist!
Blog entries (in case you would rather read the entries) in our recent coaching/mentor theme include:
A Mentor or Coach: Which Do You Need? A Checklist
A Simple Checklist for Choosing a Mentor
In the second spot this week, Jeremy Berriault will bring his QA Corner to the cast. We will discuss trusting your team. Trust is a huge deal, and unless it goes both ways it is not really trust. FYI - Jeremy has recently moved the QA Corner to https://qacorner.blog/
Rounding out the cast, Kim Pries, the Software Sensei will return with the second part of his essay titled “Muddling Through.” The essay is based on the article, “The Science of “Muddling Through” by Charles E. Lindblom. The article was originally published in 1959, but it still has an important message that resonates now. Part One was originally published in SPaMCAST 477 http://bit.ly/2IiGoCw
Re-Read Saturday News
Before we wrap up our re-read of Daniel S. Vacanti’s Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability: An Introduction (buy a copy today) remember that we will begin our re-read of Turn the Ship Around by L. David Marquet next week! Buy your copy and listen to the interview I did with Mr. Marquet (SPaMCAST 202). If you want to get ahead, the book after that will be The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (I recently bought a copy and want to share what I have gotten out of it). Now on with the main attraction!
This week we conclude our re-read of Daniel S. Vacanti’s Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability: An Introduction (buy a copy today). Over the past 18 weeks we have explored the power of a few metrics to help teams deliver value. None of the books we have explored in the re-read series are simple, one-idea books. The complexity of these books are the reason they are important, but also make it difficult to boil any of them down into a few words. If pressed for a one line summary for this book, it is that every team or organization should use data to pursue continuous improvement.
Previous
Installments
Introduction
and Game Plan
Week 2: Flow, Flow Metrics, and Predictability
Week 3: The Basics of Flow Metrics
Week 4: An Introduction to Little’s Law
Week 6: Workflow Metrics and CFDs
Week 8: Conservation of Flow, Part I
Week 9: Conservation of Flow, Part II
Week 11: Introduction to Cycle Time Scatterplots
Week 12: Cycle Time Histograms
Week 13: Interpreting Cycle Time Scatterplots
Week 14: Service Level Agreements
Week 16: Introduction to Forecasting
Week 17: Monte Carlo Method Introduction
Week 19: Conclusion
Upcoming Webinars and Conferences
Using Size to Drive Testing in
Agile
Tom Cagley & Associates and Sealights
Webinar
Tue,
Mar 13, 2018 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
http://bit.ly/2CdBQZX
QAI Quest 2018
The
Three Amigo’s Role in Agile
May 21-25, 2018,
San
Antonio, Texas
ISMA 15
May 11
Rome, Italy
I
will also be at Agile West on June 7th (my birthday!)
Next SPaMCAST
SPaMCAST 486 will feature our interview with
Daniel S. Vacanti. Mr. Vacanti is the author of
Actionable Agile Metrics for
Predictability: An Introduction. We discussed the concepts in the book,
answered a question from Steven Adams, and talked about his new
book. It was great to talk about a book after a re-read with
the author!