Continuous Improvement Isn't Continuous
Yesterday morning, I was chatting with Tom Meloche, and in the course of the conversation, we came up with over a week’s worth of article...
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Tom Bellinson
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We Don't Work For Our Supervisors, They Work For Us
If you are an individual contributor, your supervisor probably has a sizeable group of direct reports. The supervisor’s main...
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Tom Bellinson
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Is the Agile Ship Sinking?
Business cycles are always brutal. They are the ultimate test of any business fad. These days, Agile is all the rage. Many of my friends...
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Tom Bellinson
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Complex Vs. Complicated
I was once a member of a product team that developed service layer components for a much larger system. This system was home to lots of...
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Tom Bellinson
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The Most Important Agile Tool: Curiosity
Periodically, I remind myself that everything I know exists between my two ears. Nobody else has constructed a mind just like mine....
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Tom Bellinson
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Storytelling - The Better Way to Learn
I’ve come to accept that I’m an old guy now. Old guys don’t have the same capacity to absorb and retain intricate details as we did when...
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Tom Bellinson
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Agile is Not Purpose-Built for Organizations
The progenitors of the Agile Manifesto had a focused goal in mind: building better software. As with any good idea, people began to see...
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Tom Bellinson
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Agile Politics
My associate Tom Meloche has been writing about politics lately, so I’ve decided to weigh in myself. As you know, if you read my...
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Tom Bellinson
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Why I'm an AI Optimist
Google offered to help me write this article, but I figured a human ought to do this one alone. I may get some help from Grammarly, but...
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Tom Bellinson
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Healthy Uncertainty
If you’re like me, you have experienced the disorientation of learning that a long-held belief is wrong. It takes a minute, doesn’t it?...
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Tom Bellinson
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Managing Team Action Items
In the quest to deliver customer values better, faster, and more efficiently, agile teams work to improve continually. The retrospective...
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Tom Bellinson
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Kindness: The Unsung Hero of Agility
Imagine that you’ve been working for several days on a particularly sticky problem. You would have consulted your coworkers, but you are...
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Tom Bellinson
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Crunch Time!
If you have been involved in building products, you have been there. Crunch time! Months or years of preparation have led to this one...
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Tom Bellinson
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We Need Universal AI Watermarking Now!
Like many of us, I have read extensively about the impending AI apocalypse. When you view content, how do you know if an actual human...
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