SAFe Mix-in’s: Radical Co-Location
Overview One of the biggest challenges that I often encounter on SAFe transformations is dispersed teams. A dispersed team is a team that...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 7, 2019
- 6 min
SAFe Mix-in’s: Dynamic Re-Teaming
The next SAFe mix-in that I’d like to address is dynamic re-teaming. Dynamic re-teaming is a relatively radical agile innovation that...
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Tom Perry
- Mar 4, 2019
- 2 min
Let Your Freak Flag Fly
I find you can learn a lot just by walking around and looking at the spaces that teams occupy. Sometimes, a workspace is full of...
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Tom Perry
- Mar 2, 2019
- 2 min
Make it Yours
A few years ago you could walk into just about any high tech company on the west coast and find teams, divisions, and release trains....
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Tom Perry
- Feb 21, 2019
- 2 min
Pernicious Escalation
I found this lovely pairing of words in Yves Morieux’s book, Six Simple Rules. He was talking about the corrosive effect that problem...
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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
- Feb 13, 2019
- 4 min
Maxims and Manifestos
My Dad has always been a passionate outdoorsman. For him, when it comes to spending some quality time, nothing beats hunting and fishing....
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Tom Perry
- Feb 12, 2017
- 2 min
We Need a Map
“I have an existential map. It has ‘You are here’ written all over it.” -Steven Wright I happened to be in a cabin one evening after a...
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Tom Perry
- Oct 10, 2016
- 5 min
The Corn Maze Strategy
Today was our annual family visit to the pumpkin patch. We go to a local farm that is a sort of pumpkin theme park. In addition to the...
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Tom Perry
- Dec 27, 2014
- 3 min
Roles Considered Harmful
“Man’s role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.” – Margaret Mead So there I was talking to a team that was split across two...
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Tom Perry
- Oct 16, 2014
- 2 min
Satisfaction
As some of you may know, I’m building a boat in my brother’s garage. We had a big milestone the other day: we finished painting the...
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Tom Perry
- Oct 12, 2014
- 2 min
Hungarian Notation for Teams
Back in the day when I was writing windows programs there was this thing called hungarian notation. It was a form of shorthand that...
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Tom Perry
- Oct 10, 2014
- 2 min
Post Mortem Magazine
Years ago I used to read a magazine called Game Development (at least I think that was it). I’ve never worked in game development myself,...
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Tom Perry
- Oct 8, 2014
- 2 min
A Team Named “Sue”
My daddy left home when I was three And he didn’t leave much to ma and me Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. Now, I don’t...
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Tom Perry
- Oct 7, 2014
- 2 min
Living in the Space Between the Notes
“The most critical aspect of the work, both artists said, was not the objects themselves, but the space between objects.” -Daniel J....
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Tom Perry
- Sep 29, 2014
- 4 min
Swarming Context
The application of Swarming as a method can be broken down into four main contexts. For each context the process of swarming is...
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Tom Perry
- Sep 18, 2014
- 3 min
Killing 7 Impediments in One Blow
Have you heard the story of the Brave Little Tailor? Here’s a refresher: So one day this little guy kills 7 flies with one mighty blow....
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Tom Perry
- Sep 12, 2014
- 3 min
Poaching vs. Collaboration
No one wants advice, only collaboration. – John Steinbeck Imagine you are working as part of a team on a project. One day your manager...
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Tom Perry
- Sep 8, 2014
- 3 min
Radical Transparency
I’ve always been a big fan of transparency in Agile projects. I love the idea of project stakeholders having an unobstructed view into...
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Tom Perry
- Sep 23, 2013
- 5 min
Witnessing Craftsmanship
Recently we hired a painter to do the exterior of our house. At the time I thought we had simply purchased the services of a painter,...
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