Solution Focused Agility in Projects and Management - SOLWorld2024-03-29T16:04:07Zhttp://solworld.ning.com/group/karlstadgroup/forum/topic/show?groupUrl=karlstadgroup&id=2102269%3ATopic%3A2290&feed=yes&xn_auth=no>>tag:solworld.ning.com,2010-01-16:2102269:Comment:188942010-01-16T09:36:48.496ZHans-Peter Kornhttp://solworld.ning.com/profile/HansPeterKorn
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>> Scrum derives from complex ad…tag:solworld.ning.com,2010-01-16:2102269:Comment:188932010-01-16T09:36:04.667ZHans-Peter Kornhttp://solworld.ning.com/profile/HansPeterKorn
<b>Scrum derives from complex adaptive systems with an indirect linkage to Lean.</b><br />
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Recently I found an interesting blog written by Jeff Sutherland (who as the very first did "Scrum" in 1993) discussing the connections between Scrum (as one of the most prominent "Agile Frameworks") and "Lean". His essence:<br />
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1. Scrum is not a direct descendant of Lean. It derives from complex adaptive systems with an indirect linkage to Lean through Takeuchi and Nonaka.<br />
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2. Management is interested in Lean,…
<b>Scrum derives from complex adaptive systems with an indirect linkage to Lean.</b><br />
<br />
Recently I found an interesting blog written by Jeff Sutherland (who as the very first did "Scrum" in 1993) discussing the connections between Scrum (as one of the most prominent "Agile Frameworks") and "Lean". His essence:<br />
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1. Scrum is not a direct descendant of Lean. It derives from complex adaptive systems with an indirect linkage to Lean through Takeuchi and Nonaka.<br />
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2. Management is interested in Lean, partcularly in Europe. Building on that interest and any knowledge they have about Toyota makes it easier to describe why Scrum works.<br />
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3. Lean is a good teaching tool to show Scrum teams why their implementations are broken. For example, if you do not have fully tested code and cannot create potentially shippable code in a Sprint, you have 100% work in progress going into the next Sprint.<br />
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Here is this blog:<br />
<a href="http://jeffsutherland.com/scrum/2007/11/is-it-scrum-or-lean.html" target="_blank">The First Scrum: Was it Scrum or Lean?</a> ... and the discussion is goi…tag:solworld.ning.com,2010-01-06:2102269:Comment:188262010-01-06T22:49:42.509ZHans-Peter Kornhttp://solworld.ning.com/profile/HansPeterKorn
... and the discussion is going on here: <a href="http://alistair.cockburn.us/Solutions+Focus+aka+Delta+Method" target="_blank">http://alistair.cockburn.us/Solutions+Focus+aka+Delta+Method</a> and Mark provided a nice illustration to this "Delta Effect"
... and the discussion is going on here: <a href="http://alistair.cockburn.us/Solutions+Focus+aka+Delta+Method" target="_blank">http://alistair.cockburn.us/Solutions+Focus+aka+Delta+Method</a> and Mark provided a nice illustration to this "Delta Effect" Solutions Focus aka Delta Met…tag:solworld.ning.com,2010-01-03:2102269:Comment:188012010-01-03T23:06:21.423ZHans-Peter Kornhttp://solworld.ning.com/profile/HansPeterKorn
<b><a href="http://alistair.cockburn.us/Solutions+Focus+aka+Delta+Method" target="_blank">Solutions Focus aka Delta Method</a></b><br />
<a href="http://alistair.cockburn.us/" target="_blank">Alistair Cockburn</a>, (pronounced Co-burn, the Scottish way) is an internationally renowned project witchdoctor and IT strategist, best known for describing <a href="http://alistair.cockburn.us/Cooperative+game+manifesto+for+software+development" target="_blank">Software development as a Cooperative Game…</a>
<b><a href="http://alistair.cockburn.us/Solutions+Focus+aka+Delta+Method" target="_blank">Solutions Focus aka Delta Method</a></b><br />
<a href="http://alistair.cockburn.us/" target="_blank">Alistair Cockburn</a>, (pronounced Co-burn, the Scottish way) is an internationally renowned project witchdoctor and IT strategist, best known for describing <a href="http://alistair.cockburn.us/Cooperative+game+manifesto+for+software+development" target="_blank">Software development as a Cooperative Game</a> and for helping craft the <a href="http://agilemanifesto.org/" target="_blank">Agile Development Manifesto</a>, had a meeting in London in Nov 2009 together with <a href="http://www.solworld.org/profile/MarkMcKergow">Mark McKergow</a> and <a href="http://pols.co.uk/" target="_blank">Andy Pols</a> to discuss Solutions Focus and Agile development.<br />
Mark wrote up that meeting on this ==> <a href="http://www.solworld.org/profiles/blogs/meeting-with-agile-software">SOL blog</a>.<br />
And Alistair created on his website this <b>==> <a href="http://alistair.cockburn.us/Solutions+Focus+aka+Delta+Method" target="_blank">page about Solutions Focus aka Delta Method</a></b> and integrated more comments from Mark and me into it. SF conqueres Software Develop…tag:solworld.ning.com,2009-12-11:2102269:Comment:185702009-12-11T09:43:36.313ZHans-Peter Kornhttp://solworld.ning.com/profile/HansPeterKorn
<b>SF conqueres Software Development<br />
</b><br />
See this ==> <a href="http://www.solworld.org/profiles/blogs/sf-conqueres-software">blog</a>
<b>SF conqueres Software Development<br />
</b><br />
See this ==> <a href="http://www.solworld.org/profiles/blogs/sf-conqueres-software">blog</a> Lean Development - Synergetic…tag:solworld.ning.com,2009-12-06:2102269:Comment:185202009-12-06T10:50:41.805ZHans-Peter Kornhttp://solworld.ning.com/profile/HansPeterKorn
<b>Lean Development - Synergetic with SF?</b><br />
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In the last months I recognized an increasing popularity of "Lean Development" especially in the area of software development. A closer look will show, that "Agile Development" is very overlapping with "Lean Development", which has a better acceptance on management level than "Agility" which sounds a bit strange in the ears of some managers.... read more ==> <a href="http://www.solworld.org/profiles/blogs/lean-development-synergetic">here</a>
<b>Lean Development - Synergetic with SF?</b><br />
<br />
In the last months I recognized an increasing popularity of "Lean Development" especially in the area of software development. A closer look will show, that "Agile Development" is very overlapping with "Lean Development", which has a better acceptance on management level than "Agility" which sounds a bit strange in the ears of some managers.... read more ==> <a href="http://www.solworld.org/profiles/blogs/lean-development-synergetic">here</a> IBM: Success of agile methods…tag:solworld.ning.com,2009-10-23:2102269:Comment:182812009-10-23T14:36:02.937ZHans-Peter Kornhttp://solworld.ning.com/profile/HansPeterKorn
<b>IBM: Success of agile methods for a world-wide project with hundreds of developers delivering a market-leading product.</b><br />
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In the recent edition (Okt. 2009) of "Informatik Spektrum" I found this very interesting article, see: <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/9q6r0032451w8660/" target="_blank">http://www.springerlink.com/content/9q6r0032451w8660/</a><br />
Free preview here:…
<b>IBM: Success of agile methods for a world-wide project with hundreds of developers delivering a market-leading product.</b><br />
<br />
In the recent edition (Okt. 2009) of "Informatik Spektrum" I found this very interesting article, see: <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/9q6r0032451w8660/" target="_blank">http://www.springerlink.com/content/9q6r0032451w8660/</a><br />
Free preview here: <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/9q6r0032451w8660/fulltext.pdf?page=1" target="_blank">http://www.springerlink.com/content/9q6r0032451w8660/fulltext.pdf?page=1</a><br />
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<b>IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1: an agile development success story</b><br />
(by Thomas Stober & Uwe Hansmann)<br />
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Abstract:<br />
Agile software development techniques are promising to deliver software faster, in better quality, and at a lower cost. Most examples relate to small, co-located teams working on a completely new project, with no legacy. This article focuses on applying Agile methods to a world-wide project with hundreds of developers delivering a market-leading product.<br />
In contrast to projects starting from scratch, existing customers have natural demands for support, bug fixes, and new features that focus on their particular needs.<br />
This article provides an overview of the most important Agile software development methods in addition to presenting ideas and solutions on how to apply Agile ideas to a large, existing product or solution. Important aspects that should be considered while deciding on what the Agile setup for your next software project should look like are explained.<br />
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Cheers<br />
Hans-Peter Workshop at SOL2009 at Texel:…tag:solworld.ning.com,2009-05-22:2102269:Comment:157562009-05-22T11:03:20.865ZHans-Peter Kornhttp://solworld.ning.com/profile/HansPeterKorn
<b>Workshop at SOL2009 at Texel:<br />
Keeping Projects on Track with Solution Focused Agility</b><br />
Presenter: Hans-Peter Korn & Josef Scherer<br />
Place and time: Sjans, friday may 15 2009 at 11:45<br />
<br />
This workshop will show you a widespread practical proven concept how to deal with<br />
projects in complex environments like IT-application development or other types of<br />
projects in an “agile” and SF-compliant way:<br />
“Agility” in project management shares many of the basic principles of SF, escpecially<br />
those:…
<b>Workshop at SOL2009 at Texel:<br />
Keeping Projects on Track with Solution Focused Agility</b><br />
Presenter: Hans-Peter Korn & Josef Scherer<br />
Place and time: Sjans, friday may 15 2009 at 11:45<br />
<br />
This workshop will show you a widespread practical proven concept how to deal with<br />
projects in complex environments like IT-application development or other types of<br />
projects in an “agile” and SF-compliant way:<br />
“Agility” in project management shares many of the basic principles of SF, escpecially<br />
those: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools - Working products / results<br />
over comprehensive documentation - Customer collaboration over contract negotiation<br />
- Responding to change over following a plan.<br />
And doing “agility” in an even more SF-way will enhance the power of agility.<br />
Coaches, consultants, trainers, educators, managers with any level of experience in project<br />
management are welcome as participants. The focus is on processes and methods<br />
to manage projects in any area.<br />
The benefi t of this workshop to the participants will be:<br />
1. seeing “Agility” as one of the widespread practical proven concepts<br />
how to deal with projects in complex environments in an<br />
SF-compliant way<br />
2. increased motivation and confi dence to apply SF in project<br />
management.<br />
3. some ideas how to make projects in the own workplace more SF<br />
and agile<br />
How will it be done?<br />
After giving an impression how “Agility” works and how it fi ts to SF we will demonstrate<br />
it with a typical project managed with “Scrum” (which is one of the most common<br />
frameworks of agility) and will refl ect what and how it can improved by using<br />
even more SF-specific elements.<br />
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Attached you find the handout.<br />
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And the short video explaining the fundamentals of "Scrum" you can find here:<br />
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/cjgnb5">http://tinyurl.com/cjgnb5<br />
</a> transitioning process towards…tag:solworld.ning.com,2009-03-31:2102269:Comment:132052009-03-31T12:52:30.250ZHans-Peter Kornhttp://solworld.ning.com/profile/HansPeterKorn
<b>transitioning process towards an agile organization</b><br />
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This video: <a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Agile-Transitioning-Mike-Cohn">http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Agile-Transitioning-Mike-Cohn</a> (lasting about 1.5 hour) is a presentation done by Mike Cohn filmed during Agile 2007. He talks about the transitioning process towards an agile organization, why the process is inherently difficult, and what it takes to see self-organization emerging in a previously tightly…
<b>transitioning process towards an agile organization</b><br />
<br />
This video: <a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Agile-Transitioning-Mike-Cohn">http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Agile-Transitioning-Mike-Cohn</a> (lasting about 1.5 hour) is a presentation done by Mike Cohn filmed during Agile 2007. He talks about the transitioning process towards an agile organization, why the process is inherently difficult, and what it takes to see self-organization emerging in a previously tightly controlled environment.<br />
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It is IMHO a "golden nugget" for all who are interested in organisational change out of an SF view. Of course; Mike (I suggest) does not know the term "SF" .... anyway: He is arguing in a quite SF way.... without being aware of that....<br />
So, he might be a very interesting speaker on one of our future SOL-conferences...<br />
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Mike Cohn is the founder of Mountain Goat Software. He is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning and User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, as well as books on Java and C++ programming. He is a founding member of the Agile Alliance and serves on the board of directors for the Scrum Alliance. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer and a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. A less than 6 min video about…tag:solworld.ning.com,2009-03-26:2102269:Comment:131412009-03-26T11:23:52.263ZHans-Peter Kornhttp://solworld.ning.com/profile/HansPeterKorn
<b>A less than 6 min video about Scrum useful for all kinds of projects:</b><br />
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Here: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/cjgnb5">http://tinyurl.com/cjgnb5</a> I found a IMHO very nice introduction how to do Agile Project Management based on "Scrum" as one of the most used frameworks.<br />
On the right side of that Youtube-page you find a lot of other useful videos about "Agility" and "Scrum"<br />
<br />
When you watch <a href="http://tinyurl.com/cjgnb5">http://tinyurl.com/cjgnb5</a> you will see, that there are a lot…
<b>A less than 6 min video about Scrum useful for all kinds of projects:</b><br />
<br />
Here: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/cjgnb5">http://tinyurl.com/cjgnb5</a> I found a IMHO very nice introduction how to do Agile Project Management based on "Scrum" as one of the most used frameworks.<br />
On the right side of that Youtube-page you find a lot of other useful videos about "Agility" and "Scrum"<br />
<br />
When you watch <a href="http://tinyurl.com/cjgnb5">http://tinyurl.com/cjgnb5</a> you will see, that there are a lot of things which are in line with SF.<br />
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And you will maybe also see chances how improve scrum with SF.<br />
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For example:<br />
There are 3 questions a team should answer in the daily scrum:<br />
<br />
1. What did you do yesterday?<br />
2. What will you do today?<br />
3. What is blocking your progress?<br />
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I suggest to add/change the questions in a SF-way:<br />
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1. What did you do yesterday?<br />
2. What did support you?<br />
3. What will you do today?<br />
4. What do you need for this?<br />
5. When was this help previously available?<br />
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Cheers<br />
Hans-Peter