Comments on: A 10,000 Pound Elephant Can Be Restrained by a Puny Rope. (Pssst, Your Development Team Can Be Too.)

By: How I Make $300 a Day Posting Links Online

How I Make $300 a Day Posting Links Online — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:38:39 +0000

Cool post, just subscribed.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:33:55 +0000

Hey, have you seen this news article?
New details about Michael Jackson’s Death Emerge
I was wondering if you were going to blog about this…

By: Katy

Katy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:06:22 +0000

Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say
that I’ve really liked browsing your posts. Anyway
I’ll be subscribing to your blog and I hope you write again soon!

By: Curtis Cooley

Curtis Cooley — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:40:32 +0000

I think one factor that really impacts retrospectives is mastery. According to the Dryfes model, anyone who has not reached Proficient can not perform a true retrospective because they are still trying to get what they know right. None of their skill has been transfered to automatic, so there’s no brain power free to focus on getting better.

I do not disagrees with your post one iota. Spot on really. Just adding another factor to possibly consider.

By: Bill Gaiennie

Bill Gaiennie — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:01:16 +0000

Neil and Peter,

Great points. I appreciate that you both found yourself reminiscing over past similar experiences, I had a feeling that I was not alone:) In fact, I would have been very surprised if I didn’t have others be able to relate to the posting.

And Neil, I love your point about corporations valuing doing things fast yet wrong over doing them right. I will never stop raising that flag with the companies that I train, expressing that quality is never to be sacrificed for speed. That is one of those situations where going fast in the short term results in ultimately going slow in the long term. It is short term thinking that gets many companies in trouble.

Thank you both for posting comments!

Bill

By: neil martin

neil martin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:59:12 +0000

I loved your post i like the commenter before found myself nodding my head a number of times. I do think it is a real shame that in a lot of modern environments doing things right is far less impotent then doing things wrong but fast i think this simple fact has a lot of bearing on the points you have outlined.

Thanks for your post
neil

By: Peter Brodweld

Peter Brodweld — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:37:55 +0000

I found myself nodding my head several times reading your post. Although a little on the long side, I thought that your analysis of teams today was spot on. Even the Sufy story (which I had heard before) was applicable. Do you think that teams take the easy way out because they are lazy or because they simply do not have the time or resources to really approach it as it should?

I will be back, thanks for posting the interesting read.

Pete