Risk

Risk Mapping

Recently I’ve been reading Simon Wardley’s book on strategy mapping. I’m finding it to be some of the best writing on strategy that I’ve...

When Impediment Management Won’t Work

I stumbled across Pawel Brodzinski’s blog on Software Project management. In “Why Kaizen Boards (Typically) Don’t Work” he talks about...

Developing Games Fosters an Experimental Mindset

So, for the past week or so, I’ve been developing the Impediments Game. You can see some of my efforts: interation 1, iteration 2,...

Developing the Impediments Game – Part 4

So today was a day to make a few changes and take stock of where things are at. The first change I wanted to make was to double the...

Developing the Impediments Game – An Interlude

I know what you’re probably thinking by now: MORE on this silly game? Well, yes (I’m so embarrassed). You see, it just gets more...

Introducing Change in Stable Environments

Introducing change to an organization can be very challenging. This is especially true when the organization is quite stable to begin...

Inspection

I’m reading Ellen MacArthur’s book, “Taking on the World”. She is arguably one of the greatest sailors around. It’s her story of her life...

Impediment Burndown?

This post on agile risk management from Mike Cohn absolutely blew me away. This is brilliant! The risk burndown chart is so obvious, so...