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May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions!

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Another fresh new year is here... Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, to love and laugh and give!

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New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

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Here is a wishing that the coming year is a glorious one. That rewards all your future endeavors with success.

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Wishing you a fabulous 2015 with full of great achievements and experiences. A meaningful chapter waiting to be written HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Happiness keeps you sweet Trials make you strong Sorrows make you humble Success keeps you glowing & God keeps you going. May you have a greatest 2015

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May this new year bring many opportunities your way, To explore every joy of life & turning all your dreams into reality & all your efforts into great achievements.

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May this new year all your dreams turn into reality and all your efforts into great achievements.

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Sending you wishes for a happy year filled with health, prosperity, love and loads of fun!

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Welcome to 2015, where there will be sunshine & smiles, as well as sorrow & trials. Dance as if no one is watching, love as if you have never been hurt before.Happy new year 2015

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I wanna kiss you on December 31st from 11:59 pm to 12:01 am, so I can have an amazing ending to 2012 & a beautiful beginning into 2015.

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Every year you make a resolution to change yourself… this year make a resolution to be yourself! Happy new year 2015

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Today is a new day, a day for new beginnings, new starts, old endings, a day to remember, a day to live for. Life has its course & every course is a new chapter. Happy new year 2015

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Wishing you a fabulous 2015 with full of great achievements and experiences. A meaningful chapter waiting to be written HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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New year begins, let us pray that it will be a year with peace, happiness and abundance of new friends, God bless us through out the new year.

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May this new year bring many opportunities your way, To explore every joy of life & turning all your dreams into reality & all your efforts into great achievements.

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Sending you wishes for a happy year filled with health, prosperity, love and loads of fun!

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Happiness keeps you sweet Trials make you strong Sorrows make you humble Success keeps you glowing & God keeps you going. May you have a greatest 2015.

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

May the blessing of light be on you—

light without and light within.

May the blessed sunlight shine on you

and warm your heart

till it glows like a great peat fire.

Not that we now know what "a great peat fire" is - 

as we are not Irish and live in the 21st century... 

But, whether we know what we are doing, or not, 

we will "muddle through somehow...." 

to quote another great song... so... 

Have Yourself a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

And once you do, enjoy some Christmas carols, in Polish and English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-OXruY5Gx8 (Lulajze Jezuniu - Anna German)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWI-EoTfu20 (Have yourself a very Merry Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI9f6oXSh64  (Chopin's Scherzo in B Minor op. 20 by Idil Biret)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzYbgDB3F18 (Lulajze Jezuniu arranged by Chopin sung by Novi Singers, jazz style)

Obama Takes Over the Colbert Report: The Nadir of Satire?

I'm a huge fan of the Colbert Report, but this strikes me as a new low for political satire. If satire is a weapon to be used against the powerful, then why hand over the reins to (arguably) the most powerful person in the world?

On the Stones Below

My favorite living poet is, as of today, no longer alive. I met Mark Strand back in 1992 or so, when he came to my college for a reading--the only poet I ever remember reading there, aside from those of us who haunted the halls as students.

I'm transcribing this poem here, in part because I could not find it elsewhere online. I'll be out back feeling...feelings.

2002
by Mark Strand

I am not thinking of Death, but Death is thinking of me.
He leans back in his chair, rubs his hands, strokes
his beard, and says, "I'm thinking of Strand, I'm thinking
that one of these days I'll be out back, swinging my scythe
or holding my hourglass up to the moon, an Strand will appear
in a jacket and tie, and together under the boulevards'
leafless trees we'll stroll into the city of souls. And when
we get to the Great Piazza with its marble mansions, the crowd
that had been waiting there will welcome us with delirious cries,
and their tears, turned hard and cold as glass from having been
held back so long, will fall and clatter on the stones below.
                  O let it be soon. Let it be soon."

How a Product Team is improving value delivery rate with Kanban

Here are my slides from #lkuk14. Full video available soon from Lean Kanban UK.

Care about business strategy? - Tune to this channel...

If you think the principles and values of agile extend beyond the narrow boundaries of software development teams to organisations and corporate cultures, I think, like me, you'll be inspired by a couple of presentations from the recent Agile On The Beach conference, They are great bedtime viewing (for when you've finally had enough of Bakeoff!).

Firstly a video from Tom Sedge: TDD for Business Strategies – Developing Business Strategies Test-First.

Tom Sedge provides very practical advice on how to define mission (why we're here - our purpose and driving cause), vision (where we're heading - how the world will be different), goals (what we want - destinations or desired outcomes), and strategies (how we will get there - potential routes to the destination). His examples of good (Tesla, SpaceX) and bad (Kodak) missions/visions are particularly helpful. How could the inventor of the digital camera go bust, just as digital photography exploded on scene, particularly as their founder George Eastman expressed his vision in the 1880's as "a world where the camera is as convenient as the pencil". These days I quite often wish I had a pencil on me, yet I always have a camera! His vision makes a sad contrast with Kodak's mission and vision statement from the early 2000's - a paragraph of unmemorable platitudes about customer focus and shareholder value, that no one outside the company would care a fig about!

The second one is from Bjarte Bogsnes, Vice President of Performance Management Development at the major international oil company, Statoil. It's on Beyond Budgeting – an agile management model for new business and people realities. If you give it a listen you'll understand why (even though I think budgets are essential) I'm not that keen on investing much time in annual budgeting. In his words, the approach "... is about rethinking how we manage organisations in a post-industrial world, where innovative management models represent the only sustainable competitive advantage ... releasing people from the burdens of stifling bureaucracy and suffocating control systems, trusting them with information and giving them time to think, reflect, share, learn and improve."

Remember he's talking about a massive oil company - not the easiest place to introduce agile thinking! Gives hope to the rest of us.

x-Banning a process

I've just proposed an experience paper for LKUK14 - "x-Ban the process! (or how a product team is improving value delivery rate with Kanban)". Feel free to vote for it by the way here!

Scrumban, Xanpan (XP-ban) - even Prince-ban and DSDM-ban - have all been used as portmanteau words to explain the journeys from a particular named process or framework to a continually evolving and improving process, guided by the principles and practices of Kanban. If you are trying to apply a named process but frustrated by a patchy track-record of improvement, consider the alternative: x-Ban it!

When I was asked in early 2013 if I would work with Clearvision's product development team, they had just adopted Scrum (a matter of weeks before). Their process, like most I've reviewed from teams claiming to use Scrum, was not compliant with a large number of Scrum rules. It was pragmatic, constrained, variably applied and ripe for improvement... but it certainly wasn't Scrum. We had two choices - apply Scrum rules as soon as possible (defining the backlog of necessary changes and a timetable to apply them), or “x-Ban” it (use Kanban to attain evolutionary changes that we kept only if we were confident they resulted in improvements). We did the latter.

There are many lessons I've learned from this experience: some things that worked - and some that didn’t. They're lessons and general principles that others can apply on a similar journey. It has taken much longer to adopt some practices than I expected, the current process is quite different than I expected when I started 18 months ago (it’s more Scrum-like now than when I arrived for example!), but it is a route I would recommend to others.

Start x-Banning your process now!

Improving Software Development at Scale: Promise and Pitfalls

Here's my talk from the London Lean Kanban Day 2014. Enjoy!

Not all work "flows"

I've written elsewhere that it's key to focus attention on "Work that Flows" (see Clearvision's blog). That is, work that has a beginning, middle and end (delivery) and some tangible value as the outcome. The thing is not all work does flow. A lot of our time is dedicated to tasks that are simply "overhead". They might be waste - they add no value and serve no useful purpose - but equally they might be necessary activity within the context of how you deliver your work, yet not actually attached to delivery. Project management for example will need to be done for as long as the project lasts - it is not something can be completed independently from the delivery tasks. Sometimes overhead tasks can be removed if the process is changed, but  more often they are a pretty-much immovable feature of the way we work.

I just want to make one point about this - you should know the difference between work that flows and work that doesn't - i.e. overhead work. Don't put overhead tasks on your Scrum or Kanban boards for example. Focus on the work that flows. Whenever you can, eliminate (or minimise) the overhead tasks!