A song for you by one of my favorite stingers:

“The sun, the moon and the stars
They make the wind blow
It took me twenty years to understand
Lost to me are how the lives of friends go
Like autumn leaves in Oklahoma wind

But it made me strong to be on my own
It never did me no harm to live all alone
Oh, but now and then
In the colour of the evening
Drunken in a barroom
With a fan turning
I’ve come to miss a few

This afternoon was cloudy and the rains came
Third day of my first day San Miguel
Seems lately that I’m doubling as Storm bait
I’ve been followed like a shadow through the dell

But it made me strong to be on my own
It never did me no harm to live all alone
Oh, but now and then
In the colour of the evening
Drunken in a barroom
With a fan turning
I’ve come to miss a few

Dear friends and relations
See what I have done
I’ve gathered all my fingers in one place
They breathe a breath that’s deadly stale
Since they tooled a song for me
I guess mechanics never really set the pace

Cause I’m back and I’m strong
I’m here on my own
It never did me no harm
To live all alone
Oh, but now and then
In the colour of the evening
Drunken in a barroom
With a fan turning
I’ve come to miss a few

The sun, the moon and the stars
They make the wind blow
It took me twenty years to understand
But lost to me are how the lives of friends go
Like autumn leaves in Oklahoma wind

…oh, but now and then
It’s in the colour of the evening
Drunken in a barroom
With a fan turning
I’ll come to miss a few”

Nanci Griffith – The Sun, Moon And Stars

Originally posted on 2021-12-03 at 06:49 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6872426586105368576

Something came up for me today – a thought about why agile transformation efforts might lose steam. There’s a lot in agile journeys about what I will call “delivery transparency” – teams being asked to be open about and improve how they complete work. There’s less about “value transparency” – leaders being open about explaining the value of things to be built and why they are valuable (and what dimensions of value are being considered). I think that asymmetry might lead to less than desirable outcomes.

Originally posted on 2021-12-03 at 02:29 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6872361210046771200

This “Black Friday”, instead of spending money on myself or some imagined “deal” on a thing I don’t need, I just donated to
@SavetheChildren
. Join me: https://lnkd.in/g33_AnXx

Originally posted on 2021-11-26 at 14:47 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6870010025277042688

I suspect that one of the reasons for most of us having “parts” to our personality is that at key parts of our lives something significant happened that got “locked” in our brain via memory. When we encounter those things again, our brain transports us back to the time of that “locking” / encoding, evoking who and what we “were” at that time.

Originally posted on 2021-11-23 at 13:03 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6868896795926372352

I’ve heard it said that scrum is about removing excuses for finger-pointing from a team. That might feel hugely uncomfortable to the team, but removing excuses is probably an impotant “how” for getting to high performance.

Originally posted on 2021-11-21 at 04:37 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6868044703523319808

I wonder if there are really two parts to any work. The task and reflection on the task. And what happens if they are out of balance?

Originally posted on 2021-11-21 at 04:29 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6868042615879823360

If you have never seen a hammer or a screwdriver, what sense will you make out of a nail or a screw? #agiletransformation #sharedSensemaking #ideasAreToolsToThinkWith

Originally posted on 2021-11-18 at 01:14 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6866906411146838016

Let’s suppose for a moment that “design” is the way something is made. That includes physicality (size, color, shape, etc.) and other attributes (functionality, limitations, purpose, cost, joy of use, aesthetics, etc.) If that can be said to be true, then isn’t it also true that the maker is part of the design? And if the maker is a team, the team becomes part of the design. Isn’t that worth paying attention to if we desire good design?

Originally posted on 2021-11-10 at 14:31 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6864207893336612864

To everyone on LinkedIn: You are producing entirely too much content. At least that’s the story I’m telling myself. That is all.

Originally posted on 2021-11-03 at 23:42 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6861809724120272896

What about this? The Definition of Ready is the “input API” to a scrum team. The Definition of Done is the “output API”. The scrum team is a “God object”.

Originally posted on 2021-11-02 at 17:55 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6861360185571721217