Objective Thoughts

The Power of Systems Thinking

August 31, 2012 — Posted by Al Shalloway

At Net Objectives we’ve trained tens of thousands in Scrum and Kanban.  We don’t really play sides in which method we use.  Our own experience is that hybrid methods are typically needed in large scale transitions – which is our specialty.  Regardless of which method our clients employ, we always suggest a system-thinking approach within the context of Lean-thinking.


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A Twitter Blog on Scrum and Kanban

    
    		    
         	August 29, 2012 — Posted by Al Shalloway
    
  	

  	  
 
What's a Twitter blog?  Well I just made that up.  As those of you who follow me on Twitter (@alshalloway) know, I sometimes do about 10-15 tweets in response to someone.  Some of us have been having a "twittervation" and I was about to send off about 10 or so tweets when i thought I could just put them here and direct folks on twitter to them - and then everyone would have access to it.


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Understand What Your Challenge Is and Where You Want to Go

    
    		    
         	August 28, 2012 — Posted by Al Shalloway
    
  	

  	  
 
This isn't really a blog, but an interview by Bill Fox I did back in February.  I realized I had only announced it through our email list (please register) and that many may not have ever read it - one of my best ever!
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Impressions of Agile 2012

    
    		    
         	August 20, 2012 — Posted by Al Shalloway
    
  	

  	  
 
Full disclosure requires me to let you know that this is a very biased, unscientific view as I managed to get through Agile 2012 talking to folks for what felt like 24/7 but never going to a talk at the conference itself. I wasn't actually trying to do this, of course.  There were many great talks.
  	

  	
      	
    	    

	  	  
        
    

    

    
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