Management

Driving Motivation – an exercise for understanding the Daniel Pink’s Drive model

Recently, the issue of motivation is permeating my work as an agile consultant. And not surprisingly,  Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink is the main model I’m currently excited about. Today, while a colleague was describing the Autonomy Mastery Purpose (AMP) model in our Agile Forum meeting, I thought of …

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The Agile Lowest Common Denominator – Avoiding a slowdown due to the weakest link

One of the concerns often raised when people hear about kanban is that the weakest/slowest link will slow down the whole chain. For example if testing is a bottleneck what will happen is that the whole chain will accommodate its pace. Similarly in scrum a team that actually does realistic planning will commit to a …

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