Mar 24, 2019
SPaMCAST 539 features our essay titled, Assessment and Continuous Process Improvement. Assessments and continuous process improvement are intertwined. Assessments being both a source of ideas and a tool to validate change and other experiments. Other essays that have appeared on the SPaMCAST blog on agile assessments include:
Assessment and Continuous Process Improvement - https://bit.ly/2UU8mdI
Components Of A Solid Assessment Plan https://bit.ly/2YsHqnM
Assessments: Being or DOing https://bit.ly/2HGOEiK
An Assessment: A Mall Map For Change https://bit.ly/2TX8BbJ
We will also have part 2 of Susan Parente’s discussions on distributed agile. This week we will focus on tools. Susan reminds us that unless you spend time building trust and learning how to communicate, a tool won’t solve a communication problem.
Re-Read Saturday News
This week we conclude the re-read portion our tour through Malcolm
Gladwell’s
The Tipping Point by tackling both the conclusion and the
afterword. The Tipping Point is a theory that viral
change—epidemics, in Gladwell’s word—can be caused and shaped by
few actions and people. The Law of the Few tells us that
connectors, mavens and salespeople can affect whether or not a
concept, idea or movement moves across the tipping point and
becomes an epidemic.
Check out the current entry of Re-Read Saturday at www.tcagley.wordpress.com
I have had several excellent suggestions for what to read next, right now the leader in the clubhouse is The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Thoughts?
Next SPaMCAST
SPaMCAST 540 will be a TREAT. My interview with Mark Kilby
and Johanna Rothman will be featured! We discussed
their new book, From Chaos to
Successful Distributed Agile Teams, Collaborate to Deliver
(Buy your copy https://amzn.to/2Omur23).
Distributed agile teams are a fact of life, Johanna and Mark
provide an extraordinary amount of wisdom for making distributed
teams exceptional.