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<p>After some of my recent articles on building a dependency map, a few people got in touch asking for tips on actually creating them. Here&#8217;s a quick way to get started. You might have noticed the following example in my previous posts. I created the graphic above with an amazing bit of kit called Neo4j. &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/quick-dependency-map-automation/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> &#8220;Quick and dir

<p>I&#8217;ve written a few heavy articles recently, so thought I&#8217;d take a step back with something a little lighter. I absolutely love retrospectives and am going to take this time to highlight some common retrospective pitfalls that I frequently see people falling into.</p>

<p>Why should we care about facilitation for introverts? What does it actually matter? Let&#8217;s run through it. “[…]someone who prefers calm, minimally stimulating environments.” noun I sat there in the audience, gazing up at the exuberant figure breathing life and energy into the room. New to facilitation, I felt anxious just watching him play the &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/facilitation-for-introverts/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="scr

<p>If you&#8217;re not up to speed on the concept of dependency mapping, then I&#8217;d suggest taking a look at my previous post where I talked through how to go about building a dependency map. So what happens now? You&#8217;ve gone through the workshop and now have a bunch of data that&#8217;s telling you what? Something &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/dependency-map-analysis/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> &#8220;Depende

<p>There&#8217;s been a deluge of advice on how to survive working from home recently. I almost didn&#8217;t bother, so as not to add to the noise. But I figured what the hell, even if one other person can be helped then maybe I should. I&#8217;m a consultant, so work from a variety of places. Home &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/self-care-when-working-from-home/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> &#8220;Self care when working f

<p>Recently, I published an article where I discussed the concept of dependency as a proxy for complexity. I also tried to show that complexity is the biggest aspect to consider when attempting to improve the flow of value. This is all part of a concept I call Dependency Mapping. Following publication of the article, I &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/dependency-mapping/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> &#8220;Dependency Mappin

<p>dependent&nbsp;adjective de· pen· dent&nbsp;|&nbsp;\&nbsp;di-ˈpen-dənt&nbsp;&nbsp;\ determined or conditioned by another If you ask 10 people why Digital Transformations fail, you&#8217;ll get 10 different answers, often with phrases like &#8220;buy-in&#8221; and &#8220;culture&#8221; thrown around. Although there isn&#8217;t a simple answer to this question, I&#8217;d like to talk about one that often gets ignored.&nbsp;Dependencies. You have a dependency &hellip; <a href

<p>Summary: This Agile game is based on The Penny Game. &nbsp;I’ve seen it in various incarnations, but this is based on the original concept. &nbsp;Instead of simply showing how batch size affects throughput, this game has been heavily modified to give several additional lessons. &nbsp;Attendees can expect to learn about Agile’s roots in Lean manufacturing, &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/penny-flow-agile-game/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="sc

<p>Please note that this no longer represents my view on this subject, but is maintained for posterity. Risk Management is a part of everyday life, crossing the street or even walking downstairs in the morning carries with it some risk factor.  A project is no different.  When projects were managed by default by using high &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/agile-risk-management/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> &#8220;Agile Risk

<p>Tracking Agile Projects is about monitoring the project health, and checking adherence to the schedule is a relatively simple exercise. &nbsp;The amount of work actually completed in an iteration is compared with the amount of work expected to be completed. &nbsp;Differentials are feed back into the amount of work expected to be completed in the &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/tracking-agile-projects/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-rea

<p>Note that this no longer represents my thinking, but is maintained for posterity and ridicule. Agile Planning and Estimating covers the activities involved in actually planning how the software being developed is going to be built, splitting up the development into manageable pieces and deciding a schedule for the release.  This part of my Agile &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/agile-planning-scheduling-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen

<p>All relevant stakeholders should be present at this meeting, including owner, Scrum master, clients and developers. &nbsp;For a Scrum overview, please see Agile Overview. &nbsp;This guide is heavily influenced by Mike Cohn&#8217;s Agile Planning and Estimation. Choosing Themes At project initiation, the team will meet in order to determine the themes and goals of the &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/agile-project-initiation/" class="more-link">Continue reading

<p>Collaboration Contrary to traditional management methods, an Agile approach considers the team to be a single cooperative unit. &nbsp;Individuals are not scored on the amount of work completed, but the team is monitored as a whole. &nbsp;This serves to improve team cohesiveness and ensure that anyone working on a project is dedicated to the success &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/the-agile-approach/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reade

<p>Reason When somebody wants to backup either the JIRA or Confluence onDemand databases. Context Atlassian onDemand does not currently have any features for automating a backup of either JIRA or Confluence.&nbsp; To get around this we can trigger a backup from Atlassian and then automatically download the resulting file to a location of our choosing.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/backing-up-atlassian-ondemand/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span cl

<p>The following is an adaptation of content I wrote to help&nbsp;a new agile team. &nbsp;It was meant to be a brief skim over the surface of estimation, rather than an exhaustive document. &nbsp;It generally sticks to the classical agile approach, but has some additional techniques that I have found useful. &nbsp;The information on which this &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/agile-estimation/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> &

<p>I was rummaging around in some old directories and found an implementation of the Sieve of Eratosthenes that I&#8217;d thought I&#8217;d share.  I thought I&#8217;d share it because of the simplicity of the algorithm, it represented a very enjoyable programming exercise and one that I now use as a standard kata when learning a new &hellip; <a href="https://seantrobinson.co.uk/sieve-of-eratosthenes/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> &#8220