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Comment on The Cargo Cult Agile Approach. by Cargo Cults. | Burning Questions

Cargo Cults. | Burning Questions — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:03:58 +0000

[...] So what is a cargo cult? [...]

Comment on Flutter: The New Twitter by louw

louw — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:14:00 +0000

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Comment on About This Blog by Dave Englund

Dave Englund — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:02:14 +0000

Hey Bill, we didn’t get your email address from class, so am sending this so you can reply and we can capture it. Tag, your it! -Dave

Comment on When We Need to Slaughter Our Sacred Cows. Agile Companies Are Slaughterhouses. by Michael Okulik

Michael Okulik — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:14:26 +0000

Nice observation.

Comment on When We Need to Slaughter Our Sacred Cows. Agile Companies Are Slaughterhouses. by neil martin

neil martin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:46:38 +0000

I used a piece form this article in a management meeting recently thanks very much.
neil

Comment on When We Need to Slaughter Our Sacred Cows. Agile Companies Are Slaughterhouses. by Bill Gaiennie

Bill Gaiennie — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:25:36 +0000

I tell this story in my classes, slightly different version though. In fact, I almost included it in this post. It is a good parable for the benefits of asking why so that we know the why behind the what. When people blindly do something simply because it has always been done that way, they are possibly maintaining allegiance to a sacred cow. This is not to say that if they were to find out the ‘why’ behind the ‘what’ that there would not be a good reason to follow the rule, but that without knowing we no longer have the ability to make that informed decision. Information is power and too often we are content continuing operating in environments that stifle our ability to know why. It starts simply with asking the proper questions, and more often than not, these questions can simply be stated as “why?”

Comment on When We Need to Slaughter Our Sacred Cows. Agile Companies Are Slaughterhouses. by Dad

Dad — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:03:57 +0000

Reminds me of the old joke: Young man married his girl and every time she roasted a ham for dinner, she cut off the end of the ham. This went on for a time until they went to the wife’s mother’s house. The young man asked the mother why his wife always cut the end off a ham before placing in the roasting pan, and the mother replied “when she was young, we were fairly poor and only had a small roasting pan”

Comment on Book Your Next Ski Vacation in Hell…The Agile Process Maturity Model is Rearing It’s Head Once Again by David

David — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:30:40 +0000

You and I share a similar view of this effort: http://7thpixel.net/blog/2009/07/14/ill-pet-him-and-squeeze-him-and-call-him-agile/

Comment on The Map is Not the Territory. Agile Teams Know the Difference. by KonstantinMiller

KonstantinMiller — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:14:00 +0000

Hi. I like the way you write. Will you post some more articles?

Comment on Why Can’t We See the Ships on the Shore? Agile Teams Can, Can Yours? by Bill Gaiennie

Bill Gaiennie — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:33:41 +0000

I truly appreciate all of the comments, even though this last post was by far my longest, looks like more people than I thought made it all the way to the end. I am going to make an effort to keep them a little bit shorter, based on some of the feedback that I have gotten, but I am sure there will be those topics or subjects that simply require longer posts and more in depth discussions.

Thanks for the visits! And thanks to Micki and Mitch for the funny words.