All posts tagged “Book Summary

Summary: A World without Email

Many of my professional connections had been talking about this book, and a former colleague was a champion of the concepts presented in Deep Work (also by Cal Newport). Given my role as an Agile subject matter expert at Lirio,…

Summary: The Agile Coaching DNA

I learned about this book from a blog post Marten den Haring shared with me. Given my role as an Agile subject matter expert at Lirio, reading this book is part of my self-guided professional development. For a chapter-by-chapter summary,…

Summary: The Art of Business Value

This book was recommended to me by Jamie Phillips. Given my role as an Agile subject matter expert at Lirio, reading this book is part of my self-guided professional development. For a chapter-by-chapter summary and relevant quotations I highlighted while…

Summary: Do Better Work

This book by Max Yoder was recommended to me by Emily Moses (Chief People Officer at Lirio) shortly after she was hired. Emily and I enjoy reading about company culture and self-improvement, and this was one of the many titles…

Summary: SAFe 4.5 Distilled

Upon starting my role as Director of Agile Coaches at Lirio, I learned that many of the development teams were using parts of Essential SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), as the leaders of those teams had done so at their previous…

Making Work Visible – Part 7

This week we talked about metrics, making time thieves visible, and the operations review. Your Metrics or Your Money The idea of using a probabilistic approach instead of a hard estimate is something Geoff had seen in Waltzing with Bears:…

Making Work Visible – Part 6

This week we talked about preventing negligence and useful board design examples. Preventing Negligence Each of us has experienced the “let’s add this other fix while the hood is up” situation. The author mentioned a circumstance where there were tickets…

Making Work Visible – Part 5

This week we talked about exposing unplanned work and prioritizing work. The Perfect Crime: Unplanned Work Find a system of tracking every time you get interrupted. This could be putting a sticky note on the board for every task you…

Making Work Visible – Part 4

This week we talked about ambushing the problem of too much WIP and exposing dependencies. Ambush the Ringleader We spent a fair amount of discussion around the value of swimlanes on a kanban board. All of us have used the…