Building Up and Tearing Down
Recently I put on a public Leading SAFe training. This wasn’t your typical training, however. In collaboration with Ron Quartel, we...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 29, 2019
- 3 min
My Personal Andon Cord
Have you heard of an Andon Cord? On the assembly line it’s that cord you yank on to stop the entire line when a problem is found. The...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 15, 2019
- 3 min
One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
I was confronted with a bit of a dilemma the other day. I was working out and reaching the limits of what I could lift. I could tell,...
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Tom Perry
- Mar 3, 2019
- 2 min
The Trial of Empathy
I’ve been working with some managers lately who struggle with a variety of challenges. Like many folks, when faced with a challenge they...
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Tom Perry
- Feb 20, 2019
- 2 min
Eliminate Fear, Create Safety
Often silos within an organization are based on fear. There can be many different justifications for such fear. For example, the fear is...
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Tom Perry
- Feb 17, 2019
- 3 min
Trapped in Amber
Have you ever seen those blobs of amber with some hapless insect trapped inside? There it is, frozen in time, forever locked in a golden...
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Tom Perry
- Feb 16, 2019
- 4 min
Painting The Spots
If you do a little reading about Scrum one of the first things that you learn are the 5 basic values of Scrum: Courage Focus Respect...
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Tom Perry
- Jan 30, 2019
- 2 min
Individuals and Interactions
One of the things that has challenged me the most working with groups of people is the following statement from the Agile Manifesto: We...
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Tom Perry
- Jan 12, 2016
- 5 min
The Agile Gymnasium
I used to be a weightlifter. All through college, and for much of my adult life I have been in gyms exercising in one form or another....
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Tom Perry
- Oct 19, 2014
- 2 min
Superman Syndrome
There you are, in your tenth meeting of the day. You haven’t even had lunch, just one meeting after another. You’d skip the meetings, but...
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Tom Perry
- Aug 6, 2014
- 4 min
Culture Club
Recently I’ve been challenged by the question, “Can you change culture?” I think this is pretty common for folks who work in large...
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Tom Perry
- May 5, 2013
- 2 min
Agile Coaching and Training is a Scam
In the Agile world, coaches and trainers are distinctions that were created in order to create different ways of making money. They have...
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Tom Perry
- May 5, 2011
- 1 min
In vs. Out
From time to time I’ve debated the differences between being an external coach/consultant and being an internal coach for an organization...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 27, 2011
- 2 min
Who Is Your Coach?
If you are anything like me, finding a good coach or mentor is a challenge. Frankly, until recently I had a good excuse: I had no idea...
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Tom Perry
- May 23, 2010
- 1 min
Bad Programmers
There was an article in the CACM recently that caught my attention entitled, “In Praise of Bad Programmers” Still here? Apparently the...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 18, 2010
- 1 min
What If the Problem Just Isn’t Yours to Solve?
I was listening to Ken Schwaber once and he was talking about someone who had a really hard problem. I mean wicked hard. As Ken put it,...
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Tom Perry
- Mar 30, 2010
- 1 min
Are You Audacious?
Ken Schwaber tells a story in his second book, Agile Project Management With Scrum, about a key contributor on a project who goes on...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 2, 2009
- 2 min
The Team Touchstone
A touchstone is a rock used to compare valuable minerals. If you took a known quality of gold and rubbed it against the touchstone it...
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Tom Perry
- Dec 16, 2008
- 2 min
Inspired by Executable Design
A post on “Executable Design” from Chris Sterling inspired me today. I’ve started running TDD workshops with the teams that I work with....
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Tom Perry
- May 27, 2008
- 2 min
Learning to Shut Up
You know, sometimes the hardest part of working with a team is learning to shut up. During the honeymoon phase of a project (forming),...
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