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Little’s Second Law: "People are remarkably good at doing…"
Little’s Law is justly famous. I highly advise that your firm think about it, and use it as a justification for reducing the number of projects “in the system”. And for having team members only work on...
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Little’s Second Law
Little’s Law is a nice idea that tells us: we want small batches of work. Smaller, always smaller.See here for a start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_lawThis is from a John Little at Case...
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Little’s Second Law
One day I was writing down quotes to be printed in a HUGE font and put in the team room. On that day, I thought it would help (and actually, I think for that team, it did help). Anyway, this sentence...
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Freedom
For reasons unknown, I ran into a picture I took of a statue of Jefferson in Paris (it is along the Seine, near the Musee d’Orsay). Then I saw something else which led me to this quote from Jefferson,...
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Any sports coach knows that the Team must have desire. In my classes I talk to the people about how much improvement they expect to make in 1 year. With 1 team. Often it is in the 20% range. And I use...
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True, but how? As a software professional used to getting logical 1s and 0s to bend to my will, I'm not used to getting illogical humans to want things.
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Hi Drew,<br /><br />Good question. This first obvious thing to say is that often it is hard. In fact, since they have freedom, in some sense it is impossible to guarantee success. Still, we...
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