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What am I managing?

What am I managing?

When I first started PMing I used to manage people working. A few years went by. I changed. I realized I should manage the work and enable people. More years went by. I changed again. Today I came to the realization I should manage people expectation and enable the...

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Making knowledge work visible

Making knowledge work visible

Below is a photo of an agile team working. It is a great example of knowledge work. Compare it with a manufacturing work on the photo below. The knowledge work goes on inside a developer's head. This makes it difficult to intervene if a developer needs help on the...

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Stand-up meetings don’t steal your time

Stand-up meetings don’t steal your time

We've been in some teams in the past that people were seeing stand-ups as a burden. We've heard various complaints: "I wish I could do some real work in the time I spent in stand-ups" "I don't care what the team does, I have my isolated work to do" "I can't wake up in...

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Agile Micromanagement, the good and the bad

Agile Micromanagement, the good and the bad

Jim Highsmith wrote an interesting post about micromanagement. He mentioned Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are good examples of successful product manager micromanagement. I totally agree with that. He also talks about the Agile process micromanagement. Experiencing both...

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The world is flat

The world is flat

Here is my friend and coworker Ygor in front a flat screen tv connecting Porto Alegre to San Francisco, Ohio and Bangalore. For Ygor the world is flat. Flat as that 32 inches tv which he uses to communicate with a distributed agile team with a common goal of building...

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The hand-off kanban email

The hand-off kanban email

Effective communication is key for distributed Agile development teams. Many technologies and applications are very helpful for improving the communication channel for distributed teams. To name a few: video conferencing, phone, email, wiki, instant messages, text...

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