May 22, 2016
The Software Process and Measurement Cast 395 features our essay on productivity. While productivity might not be the coolest subject, understanding the concept is critical to every company’s and every worker’s financial well-being.
Gene Hughson brings another entry from his Form Follows Function blog to the Software Process and Measurement Cast. Gene discusses the idea of accidental innovation. Gene suggests that innovation is not a happy accident, but is a result of a process, structure, and technology that can enhance innovation. However, it can just as easily get in the way.
In our third column this week, Kim Pries, the Software Sensei, brings us a discussion of how software developers leverage assimilation and accommodation in the acquisition of knowledge.
Re-Read Saturday News
We continue the read of Commitment – Novel About Managing Project
Risk by Maassen, Matts, and Geary. Buy your copy today and read
along (use the link to support the podcast). This week we tackle
chapter 5. It is a relatively short chapter, but it exposes one of
the critical mechanisms for how Agile teams are able to
self-organize and self-manage. Visit the Software Process and
Measurement Blog to catch up on past installments of Re-Read
Saturday.
Next SPaMCAST
The next Software Process and Measurement Cast begins the final
approach to Episode 400 with our interview of with Mike Burrows.
Mike and I talked about his game changing idea of Agenda Shift .
Agenda Shift Identifies opportunities for positive change by
exploring an organization’s alignment to the values of
transparency, balance, collaboration, customer focus, flow, and
leadership. Along the way, we also revisited parts of our first
interview on the podcast covering Mike’s book, Kanban From The
Inside.
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