It’s All About Flow
OK, please forgive me, but I’m going to geek out for bit here on some Thermodynamics of Emotion stuff. Furthermore, I’m going to try and...
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Tom Perry
- Feb 12, 2019
- 2 min
Team Emotional Flow
The morning begins with everyone arriving at the office and gathering in the kitchen. The whole team is works together, there are no...
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Tom Perry
- Jan 28, 2019
- 4 min
Test Driven Transformation
The introduction of agile methods has brought a wave of innovation in the business world that some might argue has revolutionized...
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Tom Perry
- Mar 27, 2016
- 1 min
Testing the Agile MBA
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” -Zora Neale Hurston So as I thought about my earlier post on...
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Tom Perry
- Oct 11, 2014
- 2 min
Building Glass Houses: Creating the Transparent Organization
Visual management occurs at many levels. There is personal transparency: the ability for people to see what you are working on within the...
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Tom Perry
- Sep 28, 2014
- 2 min
Team Genetics
Today I was listing to “The Splendid Table”, a great cooking show on NPR. They were talking about variation in growing heirloom tomatoes....
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Tom Perry
- Sep 10, 2014
- 3 min
Killing the Buddha
“If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!” This is a popular saying derived from an old Zen koan. When it comes to working with...
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Tom Perry
- May 2, 2011
- 1 min
The Fractal Beauty of Process
There is something about a well designed process that I find mesmerizing. It really doesn’t matter if it’s XP, Scrum, Lean, or Kanban the...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 24, 2011
- 2 min
How Others See Us Is Important Too
I was having a conversation once with an executive sponsor who was frustrated by friction between competing organizational silos. One...
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Tom Perry
- Jan 8, 2011
- 2 min
Silo Busting Strategy #2: Attend, Befriend, Defend
There is a simple slogan that we can use when trying to approach groups in silos: attend, befriend, and defend. The idea works like this:...
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Tom Perry
- Sep 3, 2010
- 3 min
Personal Value Stream Mapping
As a project manager, a scrum master, a team lead, or even as an agile coach I’ve wondered from time to time about the true value that I...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 6, 2010
- 1 min
The Heart of Business
I stumbled across a great quote from Dan Roam, “The heart of business is problem solving.” This is a great phrase. Why did he use the...
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Tom Perry
- Jan 4, 2010
- 2 min
When ToDo, In-Progress, and Done Aren’t Good Enough
On a task board there are two places that we can capture additional detail regarding the tasks we are working on: In the tasks and...
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Tom Perry
- Sep 10, 2009
- 5 min
What I Learned From My Daughter’s First Grade Classroom
The new school year is beginning and my daughter is starting first grade. I had an opportunity to go to her elementary school open house...
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Tom Perry
- Aug 19, 2009
- 2 min
Using Lean Techniques to Improve Your Presentations
Splitting large things up into small batches: This one is a beauty. Queue theory tells us that when processing work, lots of small...
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Tom Perry
- Aug 16, 2009
- 3 min
Standard Work for Personal Improvement
“Standardized Work is an agreed upon set of work procedures that establish the best method and sequences for each process. It defines the...
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Tom Perry
- Jun 15, 2009
- 1 min
Day 1 of Agile Roots Conference
This conference has an awesome speaker lineup for its relatively small size (~200). It’s really great! Great first day. Lots of notes....
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Tom Perry
- May 5, 2009
- 1 min
I’ll be speaking at Agile Roots 2009!
I’ll be giving a tutorial, “Impediment Hunting” at Agile Roots 2009! This is a fantastic tutorial and I’m really excited to have been...
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Tom Perry
- Mar 6, 2009
- 3 min
LEI Lean Transformation Summit – Day 2
Started off the morning kind of groggy – day two is always harder. Had breakfast and an interesting conversation with David Meier...
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Tom Perry
- Mar 4, 2009
- 3 min
LEI Lean Transformation Summit – Day 1
Wow, this has been a pretty cool conference so far. I really wasn’t quite sure what to expect. It all started off innocuously enough at...
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