working behind the lines
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Working Behind the Lines
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The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious.
No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is
intended or should be inferred.
No squirrels were harmed in the making of this production.
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We started out with the highest of hopes
“Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.”
— W. Edwards Deming
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Agents of Change
“The results can be extraordinary!”— SAFe Whitepaper
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All Aboard the Agile Train
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”— Confucious
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Salvation by Sports Metaphor
“… and the ancient muddy ritual of Rugby was consecrated to a new era of software development.”
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The Alchemists of Old
“Bernie Madoff had quite a long run with his scheme, and Sprint Velocity can be made to work for you, too.”
— Michael Godeck
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Making the Trains Run On-time
“There are good practices in context, but there are no best practices.”
— Cem Kaner
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The Pull Request Edge
“In theory, there is no differencebetween theory and practice, but in practice, there is.”
― Yogi Berra
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Start From Where You Are
“Of course, speed is most useful if it is in the correct direction.”― David J. Anderson
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A Systematic Protocol
“…a systematic protocol to determine when to intervene and when to leave systems alone.”
— Nassim Taleb
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Be Honest, now…
Is the process stream overloaded?
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Little’s Law
Length of queue Average wait time
Arrival Rate
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Have you taken your entropy today?
“Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.”
— Michael Ende
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An Expert Solution
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Why not just use magic?
“My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.”
— Peter Drucker
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Intuition and Critical Thinking
“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.”
— Daniel Kahneman
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The Fitness Landscape
“Problem-solving on a contoured fitness landscape means trying to find the high peaks.”
— Tim Harford
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The Donkey's Dilemma
“...a man, being just as hungry as thirsty, and placed in between food and drink, must necessarily remain where he is and starve to death.”
— Aristotle, On the Heavens, c. 350 BC
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The Metaphor of the Gray Squirrel
“Nothing happens until something moves.”
— Albert Einstein
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It's all about the stressors, baby...
“True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.”―”
— Daniel Kahneman
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Root Cause Analysis
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Root Cause Analysis
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Root Cause Analysis
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Root Cause Analysis
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The Journal of Animal Ecology
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A Feedback Mechanism
“The big problems are where people don’t realizethey have one in the first place.”
— W. Edwards Deming
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Glucocorticoid
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On Retrospective Narrative
“…Where there is perfection, there is no story to tell.”— Ben Okri
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The Donkey's Dilemma, revisited
“…Ex nihilo nihil fit: Nothing comes out of nothing.”
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Transition vs Consolation Phases
“Developing an increased level of trust with other teams can enable the harder things.”―”
— David J. Anderson
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Normative vs Structural Changes
“Predictability builds and holds trust, a core Agile value, better than does delivering more with less reliability.”―”
— David J. Anderson
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Glucocorticoid Revisited
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Feedback and Scaling Frameworks
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”―”
— George Bernard Shaw
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Phineas Gage with his Tamping Rod
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From the Pull Request Edge to the P&L
“Every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple.”
— Eliyahu Goldratt
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From the Pull Request Edge to the P&L
“Every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple.”
— Eliyahu Goldratt