- All posts are released under CC 3.0 by-sa unless otherwise stated.
Pages
Follow me on Twitter!
My Tweets-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Categories
- bdd
- breaking models
- business value
- capability red
- coaching
- complexity
- conference
- csharp
- cynefin
- deliberate discovery
- evil hat
- feedback
- humour
- jbehave
- kanban
- lean
- learning
- learning models
- life
- nlp
- open source
- real options
- scale
- scrum
- spike and stabilize
- stakeholders
- stories
- testing
- Uncategorized
- uncertainty
- values
- writing
Archives
Meta
Author Archives: Liz
Correlated in Retrospect
A few years back, I went to visit a company that had managed to achieve a high level of agility without high levels of coaching or training, shipping several times a day. I was curious as to how they had … Continue reading
Posted in complexity, cynefin
4 Comments
Capabilities and Learning Outcomes
When I started training, I taught topics. Lots of topics! Nowadays, thanks to some help from Marian Willeke and her incredible understanding of how adults learn, I get to teach capabilities instead. It’s much more fun. This is how I … Continue reading
Posted in bdd, learning models
3 Comments
Negative Scenarios in BDD
One problem I hear repeatedly from people is that they can’t find a good place to start talking about scenarios. An easy trick is to find the person who fought to get the budget for the project (the primary stakeholder) … Continue reading
Posted in bdd
3 Comments
140 is the new 17
I took a break from Twitter. A while back, I ran a series of talks on Respect for People. I talked about systems which encourage respect being those which are constrained or focused, transparent, and forgiving. I also outlined one … Continue reading
The Estimates in #NoEstimates
A couple of weeks ago, I tweeted a paraphrase of something that David J. Anderson said at the London Lean Kanban Day: “Probabalistic forecasting will outperform estimation every time”. I added the conference hashtag, and, perhaps most controversially, the #NoEstimates one. … Continue reading
Posted in complexity, conference
37 Comments
A Dreyfus model for Agile adoption
A couple of people have asked for this recently, so just posting it here to get it under the CC licence. It was written a while ago, and there are better maturity models out there, but I still find this … Continue reading
Posted in learning models
5 Comments
What is BDD?
At #CukeUp today, there’s going to be a panel on defining BDD, again. BDD is hard to define, for good reason. First, because to do so would be to say “This is BDD” and “This is not BDD”. When you’ve … Continue reading
Posted in bdd, conference
10 Comments
The Shallow Dive into Chaos
For more on the Chaotic domain and subdomains, read Dave Snowden’s blog post, “…to give birth to a dancing star.” The relationship between separating people that I talk about here, and the Chaotic domain, can be seen in Cynthia Kurtz’s work with … Continue reading
Posted in complexity, cynefin
3 Comments