Today I watched the first Seattle Seahawks game of the NFL season. During the game, which we lost, I did get a chance to see a series of Verizon commercials themed around a better network explained in different ways, one of which was a door. This commercial had many of my friends geeking out because it has great parallels to dealing with constraints at work.
Everyday Kanban
Discussing Management, Teams, Agile, Lean, Kanban & more
Author: Julia Wester (page 24 of 42)
I was very honored to receive a request to do an interview on the role of a manager in Agile for SPaMCAST after the publishing of my series on Taming the Chaos for Managers. Of course I graciously accepted!
Please listen as Thomas Cagley and I discuss whether we should get rid of all the managers or embrace the value that they can deliver. We also talk about if the strategy of management in Scrum vs Kanban differs, the value of visualization, why more managers don’t take the tactics that help their teams and apply them to their own work and much, much more.
In American restaurants, gratuity is not included in menu prices. It is left up to the patrons to leave what they think was deserved – 18-20% is standard these days. So, I experience a vague irritation whenever I see “gratuity included for parties of X or more” on an American restaurant menu. It smacks of a lack of trust in me to treat the server with the respect they deserve. I assume that policies like this spur from being wronged in the past. I understand that thinking and know that it happens everywhere, though its not always as obvious.
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