Monthly Archives: October 2013

The Leadership Gift Programme is restarting next week

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Ian Brockbank

Christopher Avery and Bill McCarley have developed The Responsibility Process™ over the past 20+ years – I’ve already blogged a bit about it in The Steps to Responsibility, and my talk at Lean Agile Scotland 2013 was based on this … Continue reading →

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LAS2013 Thoughts: Making Distributed Teams More Effective

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Ian Brockbank

More thoughts from Lean Agile Scotland 2013. A couple of guys working for Neo discussed common anti-patterns of distributed teams, and possible ways of addressing these.  The big risks are around fragmentation or isolation. This really resonated for me – … Continue reading →

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LAS2013 Thoughts: Real Options

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Ian Brockbank

Chris Matts gave a keynote at Lean Agile Scotland 2013 about Real Options. Options have value. Options expire.  Don’t commit before you have to. There is value in keeping options open as long as possible. Ideally you want to be … Continue reading →

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LAS2013 Thoughts: Optimise flow instead of resource usage

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Ian Brockbank

The next in my series of posts on Lean Agile Scotland 2013. Another common theme was that it is more efficient and valuable to optimise flow than optimise resource use. Don’t try to keep everyone busy all the time.  Allow … Continue reading →

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LAS2013 Thoughts: Processes have to be tailored

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Ian Brockbank

Lean Agile Scotland 2013 was an inspiring conference, and I have assorted thoughts coming out of it. I’ll summarise them in a series of posts. This is part 1. A common theme running through the conference this year was that … Continue reading →

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