Archive

The following is a list of all posts on this blog, in date order, with the most recent listed first:

• The Last Post
• Factors of Top Performing Businesses
• #NoPlanning
• Quickie: Who’s Got Your Back?
• Waiting In The Wings
• Getting Upstream
• Quickie: The Death Knell Of Agile
• The Organisational Psychotherapist’s Limerick
• Carpenters
• Quickie: Not A Software Developer
• Gilbfest 2022: Day 2, 3 and Summary
• Quintessential Morons
• Quickie: Mutual Helping
• GilbFest 2022 – Day 1
• Quickie: How To Please A Woman
• Highlight Problems, Avoid Solutions
• Quickie: Why Are Toasters Like Employees?
• Quickie: Noses
• Power To Effect Change
• Quickie: Back on Twitter, Kinda
• Quickie: The Time It Takes
• Quickie: Write Code Like…
• Quickie: Conventional Or Performant?
• Quickie: Muntzing
• Quickie: Love Of Coding
• Quickie: Teams? Fugeddabahtit
• There Are Better Ways
• Quickie: Heads Up, Podcasters!
• Quickie: Organisational Inanities And Insanities
• I Miss Punk
• Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3
• Read Quintessence? – Others Have
• Quickie: Flexible Working
• Quickie: Learners?
• Building Things
• The Future Of Software Delivery
• Quickie: Recruiting and Kahneman
• Quickie: The HR Front
• Quickie: The Effect Of How The Work Works
• Tour: Rightshifting
• Psychology Newbies
• Quickie: Clarity – Who Needs It?
• Quickie: The Right Thing
• Quickie: We’re Entirely Selfish But That’s OK
• Why I Blog
• Quickie: Quantification, Clarity and Relationships
• Quickie: Obdurate Ignorance
• You Don’t Understand Software Delivery
• More On Sea Change
• Organisational Transformation Starts With Individual Transformation
• Quickie: Stop Hiring Managers
• Quickie: Following
• Quickie: Aspirations
• Quickie: Indulgence or Satisfaction
• Quickie: Good Jobs, Great Jobs
• Quickie: Exploring Nonviolence
• Isolation
• Quickie: Unethical Obduracy
• ICYMI: Why Job Interviews Suck
• Quickie: More Valuable Than Platinum
• Tour: Organisational Therapy
• Curious About Organisational Psychotherapy?
• Quickie: Bums On Seats
• Quickie: Indifferent To The Way The Work Works
• Quickie: Exploitation Or Partnership?
• ICYMI: Six FAQs
• Quickie: Working Smarter
• Quickie: Prefixes
• A Conducive System
• The System Is Unethical
• We Need Your Help!
• The #NoSoftware Option
• ICYMI: Righshifting And Quintessence
• Quickie: Wisdom
• Quickie: Tosh, Tosh And More Tosh
• Quickie: How To Convince Somone When Facts Fail
• Quickie: Ironic
• Software Delivery Today
• Celebrate With Us And Receive A Free Copy Of Quintessence!
• ICYMI: Why Does Agile Fail So Often?
• Quickie: Developer Training
• Quickie: Serving Together
• Quickie: Getting In On The Ground Floor
• Quickie: World’s Greatest Oxymoron?
• Quickie: Turkeys, Xmas And Effective Software Delivery
• An Exec’s Guide To Achieving Mission-critical Software Delivery
• Quickie: Pffft
• What Is Quintessence?
• Quickie: Talent Or System?
• Blockers
• Quickie: Management Priorities
• ICYMI: The Organisational Psychotherapy Retrospective
• Quickie: Despair
• Quickie: Relationship Killer
• Quickie: Changes
• Quickie: How To Spot An Expert
• ICYMI: A New Frame
• Quickie: Sticking With The Ineffective
• ICYMI: Workspaces
• Quickie: More On The Purpose of Organisations
• Management, Net-Net
• Quintessential Applications – Come Join Us!
• Quickie: Quintessential Software Delivery
• Quickie: The Definition of Quality
• Quickie: Brief Yourself And Your People On Quintessence
• Quickie: The Costs Of Modifying Behaviours
• We’re NOT Hiring!
• First Step Towards Quintessence
• Alien Tech: What Is It?
• The Author
• The Way The Play Plays
• Quickie: Social Sabotage
• Quickie: Isn’t It Amazing?
• How To Navigate A Think Different Blog Post
• Quickie: Can You Imagine?
• Quickie: What Shapes Folks’ Attitudes To Work?
• Quickie: Competitive Advantage
• The Limits Of Quintessence
• Quickie: Understanding
• Quickie: Aww Do We Have To?
• Why Value Streams?
• The Monopoly of Management
• ICYMI: The Agile Enterprise Is A Thing But Not THE Thing
• Quickie: Agile As Piano Top
• Quickie: Hobgoblins
• Implementing Prod•gnosis
• How To Run A Collaborative Knowledge Work Business
• Quickie: Quintessential Management
• Quintessential Fellows’ Skills
• ICYMI: Second Time Around
• Quickie: Time-binding
• Quickie: Tom Peters’ Collective Wisdom In One A4
• Five Whys
• Quickie: Organisational Structures Are Irrelevant
• My Intolerance Of Shit Has Cost Me Several Million Dollars $$$
• Hungry For Improvement
• Quickie: More Than Just Technical Practices
• How Do You Set Up A Salary Model That Has Everyone’s Approval?
• What’s An Expert To Do?
• Second Time Around
• ICYMI: The Bees’ Knees (and Quadratic Voting)
• Quickie: Whence Knowledge?
• Quickie: The Basis of Most Hiring Decisions
• Quickie: Doing Massively Better
• Quickie: So Much Effort, So Little Results
• Twelve Invitations for Fellowship
• Quickie: Building Community
• Quickie: Value Engineering And #NoSoftware
• Quickie: Scrum Roles, Not Job Titles
• ICYMI: Surely You Can’t Mean That?
• Quickie: You’re Not Interested In How I Am
• From The Beginning
• At Face Value
• Quintessence – Concept vs Book
• Quintessence Worth £Billions
• Spilt Milk And Defect Prevention
• Quintessence For Busy People
• Quickie: The Greatest Tragedy
• Quickie: Solutions Exist
• Quickie: Knowing Everything
• Quickie: Did You Read…?
• ICYMI: One Of My Most Popular Posts – Six FAQs
• Why Is No One Interested In Superior Software Development Approaches?
• Quickie: Inconvenient Truth About Change
• Quickie: Software Development Managers
• Quickie: Why Not Quintessential?
• Quintessential Ways Of Working
• Quickie: Can’t Buy Me Change
• Quickie: Success And The Role Of Collective Organisational Mindset
• Quickie: Morgenisms
• Rightshifting Revisited
• Culture and Strategy
• Quickie: Let’s Keep Our Children Ignorant
• A Key to Culture Change
• Quickie: Tom Peters on Putting People First
• Quickie: How Do You Know You’re A Great Leader?
• Who’s Delusional?
• Quintessence Is The Future
• Quickie: I Can’t Believe
• Quickie: Chief Capitalization Officer
• Quickie: What We’ve Always Known
• Quickie: Highest Honour
• Quickie: Prepared to Listen
• Quickie: Please Don’t Lead Me
• Quickie: Quintessential Policing?
• ICYMI: Q&A with Bob Marshall about the Antimatter Principle
• Risk And Rewards
• ICYMI: Why Agile Fails
• Quickie: Do It Yourself
• Quickie: Done
• Quickie: Expected Benefits
• Why Quintessence?
• Quickie: People or Finance?
• Quintessence – The Long Overdue Upgrade to Agile
• Quickie: Stupid Meta
• If Putin Ran A Software Development Business
• Quickie: Coming Around?
• Quickie: Poor Estimation Is Not Your Problem
• Quickie: Good Luck With Not Shifting Your Culture!
• Culture Shifting
• Quickie: Open Dissent As An Obligation
• Quickie: Mileage?
• Quickie: Coaching for Performance
• Quickie: Tech Innovation??
• Quickie: Why Do People Resist Change?
• Tell Your Friends?
• Quickie: The Nature of Quintessential Change
• Managers Are PONC
• 28 Years Ago
• The New, Radical, Superior Alternative
• Quickie: Engaging With The Future
• Curious?
• Quickie: Everybody Asks
• ICYMI: How To Give Feedback
• It’s About Time
• The New Game In Town
• ICYMI: The ONE Thing
• Local Optima – Updated
• Quickie: Deliveries
• Quickie: Agile Dogfooding
• Quickie: What They Want to Hear
• Quickie: Now More Than Ever
• Quickie: SAFe is all about relationships
• There Are Koalas In My Kitchen
• Quickie: Quantification
• An Open Letter To All Organisations
• Seeds of Failure
• Quickie: Management As A Technology
• The Organisational Psychotherapy Solution for Staff Attrition
• Quickie: Working on the Work?
• Wanna Be More Productive?
• ICYMI: How To Develop Software – And Why Most Organisations Can’t
• Managing Differently
• The Organisational Psychotherapy Solution for Easier Hiring
• Quickie: SAFe
• Quickie: Testing Your Coaching Knowledge
• Quickie: Enterprise Agility
• The Tech Leader as Organisational Therapist
• Repost: Hey Mr. Middle Manager it’s OK to appreciate your people
• Customer Success
• The Purpose of Organisational Psychotherapy
• The Fifth Absolute of Quality
• Quickie: Do You Have A Cause?
• Why Your Dev Team Can Benefit From Organisational Psychotherapy
• What’s So Weird About Organisational Psychotherapy?
• Quickie: Belief in Leadership
• ICYMI: Agile Coach to Organisational Psychotherapist
• What Is Normative Learning?
• ICYMI: The Design Principles of Organisational Psychotherapy
• Repost: Slippery With the Truth
• Narrowing the Focus
• Quickie: Here, Let Me Fix That Up For You
• Quickie: Oh, the Irony
• Quickie: Naïve Realism (Cognitive Bias)
• Repost: Perceiving Is Believing
• Quickie: The Simplest of Tests
• I’m Done
• Quintessential People
• Rightshifting and Quintessence
• Kent Beck on Certificates and Certification
• Reblog: Are We Really Engineers?
• Effectiveness
• Quickie: Agency
• Quickie: Wilful Blindness
• Irksome
• (Self)discipline
• Quickie: David Bohm on Culture
• Quickie: No Need to Help Yourselves?
• ICYMI: Five Reasons Why Agile Coaching is Bullshit
• Quickie: Flying Fucks
• “Please, just attend to my needs”
• Dynamic Work Design from MIT
• Can We Really Trust People To Do The Right Thing?
• Product Development Success
• The Key
• Quickie: Am I the Only One?
• Needs or Wants
• One Simple Question
• Quickie: Acquiescences
• The Great Hiring Debacle Continues
• What If #10 – Somebody Discovered The Solution
• Quickie: Being Right
• Quickie: Displacement Activity
• Quickie: It’s Not the Way That Developers Work That Counts 
• Quickie: Prosocial
• Quickie: Cargo Culting
• Quickie: How To Build A Great Product
• The Roots of Rightshifting
• Quickie: Requests?
• The Way Forward
• Quickie: Modern Agile
• What’s Holding Us Back
• ICYMI: Holistic Product Development
• Quickie: Results Count for Naught
• Win Organisational Psychotherapy Book Bundles!
• Quintessential Product Development
• Quickie: Not So Smart
• Live Interviews Suck Donkeys
• ICYMI: Effective Product Development
• Quickie: Managing People
• Quickie: The Right Answers
• Quickie: Inconvenient Truth
• Quickie: Managers’ Biggest Challenge of the Moment
• Compassion Makes For A Better Developer. Period.
• Damp Squib
• Simply Getting Along
• Repost: Why the Most Forward-Thinking Product Teams Work Backwards
• The V8 Question
• More Employable
• ICMYI: Just Burning Toast and Scraping It
• ICYMI: Cease Dependence on Inspections
• Quickie: About You
• We Can All Be Doing So Much Better
• Crosby’s Four Absolutes of Quality Reframed
• Quickie: Build It and They Will Come
• The Quintessential Developer
• Crisis or Not?
• Quickie: Christmas Sentiments
• All Agilists Are Unethical
• Quintessence: Who Matters?
• Quickie: Super Scrum Masters
• Quickie: Coaching As Fixing
• Quickie: Antimatter Principle Check-in
• Quickie: Red Pill or Blue Pill?
• Incompatible
• Quickie: The Joy of Fellowship
• Repost: Toyota vs Ford
• Quickie: Senior Management
• Repost: Agile Is Unfit
• Quickie: Scared?
• The Unemployables
• Golden Insights From the Gemba
• Quickie: How to Manage
• Gifting LeanPub Books
• Quickie: If In Doubt, Bluff It Out
• I Literally Just Told You
• Quintessence: Undiscussables
• Leadership?
• Repost: Why Don’t We Just Call Agile What It Is: Feminist
• Choices
• Quickie: Is Agile Dead?
• Quintessence: The Foreword
• Quickie: Word of The Day – Cosmesis
• That’s Rich
• Quickie: Product Roadmap? Non Grazie
• Quintessence Now Complete!
• Quickie: It’s Not Done Until…
• A Rough Ride
• Quickie: Changing Faith
• Quickie: Teaching
• A Steady Job Makes For Increasing Ignorance
• ICYMI: Surely You Can’t Mean That?
• ICYMI: Engineering Excellence
• Repost: Part 1: Autonomy – Autonomy Support – Autonomy Enabling
• Quickie: Incompetence Correlates with Rank
• Quickie: Surfacing and Reflecting on Assumptions and Beliefs Slows You Down
• Quickie: Mike Rother on Changing Behaviour & Mindset
• Quickie: John Seddon on Failure Demand
• Pipe Dreams
• Quickie: The Land of Morons
• Quickie: Better Managers or No Managers?
• Tarred With the Brush of Excellence
• ICYMI: Cost of Focus Revisited
• Quickie: Truth
• Repost: Thou shalt care for thy customer!
• Quickie: TIL Mob Etymology
• Organisational Psychotherapy Bargain Book Bundle
• ICYMI: What Is A Mindset?
• Quickie: Agile in Essence
• Still Rejecting the Idea of the Collective Psyche?
• More #NoProjects
• A Plea For Connection
• Quickie: As Popular as a Skunk at a Picnic
• Fun Times at Familiar
• Quickie: The Great Resignation
• Quickie: Quintessence Now 80% Complete
• No Adaptation Required
• Quickie: Bossing
• Beyond the Software Teams
• Kevin and Perry Go Software Engineering
• Quickie: #NoSoftwareEngineering
• ICYMI: You’re Not As Effective As You Think
• Quickie: Better just to say…
• Quickie: Suicide
• ICYMI: The Future of Work
• Assumptions and Beliefs
• ICYMI: Pillars
• Quickie: Plato on Management
• The Organisational Psychotherapy Standup
• Quickie: Good Agile
• Just Bloody Ask
• Blueprint For Effectiveness
• Quickie: One Ring
• The Organisational Psychotherapy Retrospective
• ICYMI: Business Doctrine
• Unbelievable
• ICYMI: Why Milk is Thicker than Water
• ICYMI: Producing Software Is Not The Purpose Of Software Development
• ICYMI: Product Development Flow
• ICYMI: Innovation ALWAYS Demands We Change the Rules
• Drop-In Experiment Terminated
• ICYMI: Agile Development Doesn’t Work
• Quickie: Oneself
• Quickie: Prejudices Or Performance?
• Quintessence First Version Now Available
• Quickie: Hugging
• Quickie: Dave
• Opportunity to Contribute to “Quintessence”
• Quickie: Software Engineering Wannabes
• Announcement: New book “Quintessence” In The Works
• Quickie: Why Are Senior Software Engineers So Ignorant?
• ICYMI: All Executives Are Unethical
• Quickie: The Value Of Knowledge
• ICYMI: Attending To The Needs Of Others
• ICYMI: What’s Wrong With Judgment?
• Quickie: The Latest Technology
• ICYMI: The Antimatter Principle
• I Don’t Give a DAMN What You Think
• Quickie: Madness and Community
• ICYMI: On Becoming An Organisational Psychotherapist
• Techniques
• Quickie: Socrates and Questions
• Quickie: New Friends
• Clued or Clueless
• Quickie: Love is not Love
• Sea Change
• Quickie: Going Through the Motions
• Quickie: Thinking, Self and Other
• Quickie: Feedback or Flattery?
• LeanAgileExchange 2021 Conference Report
• Quickie: Word Of The Day – Nocebo
• ICYMI: The Two Antimatter Questions
• Quickie: Setting Salaries and Day Rates
• ICYMI: Barking Up The Wrong Tree
• Quickie: Hell Bent on Product
• Irrelevant
• ICYMI: Eight Ways Customer Value is Killing Your Business
• Quickie: Coding to Other Things Ratio
• Quickie: Samatha, Vipassana and Equanimity
• ICYMI: Make Bad Hires!
• Quickie: Living
• Quickie: Using NVC for Mediation and Dispute Resolution
• Jira, Dogs and Chocolate
• Quickie: Business Agility Conference 2021
• Helping Employees Get Their Needs Met
• Quickie: Antisocial Communities
• Quickie: Speaking at Lean Agile Exchange 2021
• Quickie: Understanding People
• The ONE Thing
• The Inklings
• ICYMI: Six FAQs
• Quickie: Changing One’s Beliefs
• Visual Walkthrough Explaining Rightshifting And The Marshall Model
• Quickie: Lies Pay
• Quickie: Faux DevOps
• Quickie: Imagining
• Addressing Issues
• Quickie: Organisational Psychotherapy Definitions
• Quickie: Hearts over Diamonds Sales
• Organisational Psychotherapy and Mobbing
• ICYMI: What If #5 – Continuous Improvement is Useless
• Quickie: Thinking Outside the Box
• Quickie: Ackoff on God
• Quickie: Borked
• Organisational Psychotherapy For the Curious
• Quickie: John Seddon on Efficiency vs Effectiveness
• Quickie: Hitch’s Principle
• Quickie: Ackoff Explains Analytic vs Synergistic Thinking
• Quickie: A Blast From the Past
• ICYMI: 17 Ways To Piss Off New Hires Before They Even Start
• Quickie: Wants and Needs
• Quickie: Prejudice Trumps Mission
• Quickie: $100 Ideas
• ICYMI: The Marshall Plan
• Quickie: Are You Ready?
• Organisational Psychotherapy on Slack
• Quickie: Learned Helplessness Update
• The Nine Principles of Organisational Psychotherapy – 2nd Ed.
• Gallup on the Challenges of Being a Manager
• Quickie: Superchickens
• Quickie: Tom Peters on Hiring
• Memeology: Update
• How to Save the Industry and Get the Buzz Back!
• Adherence, Self-Efficacy and the Person of the Therapist
• Quickie: Trust
• Not Ready To Hear
• Traders or Traitors
• Quickie: Would You Be Willing To…?
• ICYMI: Changing Behaviours
• Quickie: As A Whole
• Quickie: Messes and Wicked Problems
• Tidbit for Today: Ackoff’s Little Book of F-Laws
• Quickie: Building Things Right or Building the Right Thing?
• ICYMI: So You Really Want to be an Agile Developer?
• Quickie: Leadership is the Dark Servant
• ICYMI: The Starting of Familiar
• Quickie: Planting Seeds
• Quickie: Doing the Best For Your Customers
• Quickie: Contributing to Life
• ICYMI: A Beginner’s Guide to Personal Integrity
• Quickie: Poll (Senior Tech Hires)
• Quickie: Fiction
• Gimme A Break, Here
• Reverse Antimatter Principle
• ICYMI: How to Be a Great Software Development Manager
• Quickie: Measuring Progress on Culture Change
• Quickie: Nonviolence by Gandhi
• Quickie: The Software Industry
• Quickie: Competency and Delivery
• Quickie: Second Weekly Drop-in Day and Time
• Quickie: Love and Compassion
• Quickie: Slave to the Monkey
• Quickie: VUCA Nonsense
• Quickie: Ignaz
• Quickie: Change – Embrace or Avoid?
• Quickie: End of Agile
• Agile Expert, Deprecated
• Quickie: Common Sense
• Quickie: Buying Into Agile
• Quickie: Wikipedia Donation
• Quickie: Execrable Online Meetups
• Quickie: Powerful Questions
• Quickie: Junk
• Memeology Early Feedback
• Quickie: Deming and Psychology
• Quickie: Junior Developers
• Quickie: Not Interested
• We’re Still Working in the Dark Ages
• Quickie: Counts for Naught
• Quickie: Managers, Leaders
• Quickie: Mission Type Tactics In Name Only
• Quickie: Enough or More?
• Quickie: Changing Thinking
• Quickie: Transformation Programmes
• Where Are All the Helpees?
• The Great Mexican Standoff
• Quickie: John Seddon on Twitter
• Nobody Needs Learning
• Quickie: Facebook Harm
• Quickie: Programming as Socialising
• Quickie: Gandhi on the Antimatter Principle
• Zeitgeist
• Quickie: Special Forces
• Quickie: Answers
• Quickie: Theatre
• Quickie: Oligarchs and Jingoists
• Quickie: Show and Tell
• Psychological Safety – Oh! The Irony
• Quickie: Is Scrum For Life?
• Quickie: Concern for Man
• Quickie: Holodeck Therapy
• Quickie: Bookish
• Quickie: Category Error
• Quickie: Estimates
• Conventional
• Scrum – Where’s the Evidence?
• Quickie: The Western Way of Managing
• Quickie: ScrumsAlliance
• Quickie: Be Careful What You Wish For
• Yūgen
• Quickie: Life Safety
• Quickie: Teaching Truths
• Quickie: The Changing Face of Startups
• Fourth Think Different Weekly Tuesday Drop-in
• Quickie: Donella Meadows’ 12 Points to Intervene in a System
• Quickie: Which Assumption is the Flawed One?
• Quickie: People First
• Quickie: The Goal
• Quickie: Tosh Count
• Quickie: What’s the Constraint?
• How Undiscussable are your Undiscussables?
• Quickie: Ozymandias
• Quickie: Labor Day
• Quickie: What If #9
• Quickie: Freiheit
• Quickie: Job Applications are the Biggest Recruiting Scam
• Quickie: Talent
• Industrialised Learned Helplessness
• Quickie: Memeology Testimonials
• How Much Do You Care?
• Quickie: Psych
• Quickie: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
• Quickie: Team Topologies
• Quickie: Look Outside the Box
• Quickie: Innovation
• Interlock
• Quickie: Sabotaging Developers
• Quickie: Memeology now 96% complete
• Third Think Different Weekly Tuesday Drop-in
• Quickie: Vengeance
• Quickie: Indifference
• Quickie: The Great Resignation
• Quickie: Environments for the Brain
• New Teams
• How Come Hardly Anything Ever Gets Better?
• Quickie: Defect Prevention is Cost Effective
• Quickie: Who’s Right?
• Quickie: Just Call Me Ignaz
• Quickie: Quality and Culture
• Quickie: If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?
• Quickie: The Purpose of Organisations
• Lucky Thirteen
• Quickie: Software Deniers
• Quickie: Teams
• Quickie: Nonviolence
• Quickie: Evidence-based Practice
• Scope of Ignorance
• Who Needs the Status Quo?
• Quickie: Dearest Beliefs
• Quickie: Peeve of the Week
• Quickie: One-way Interviews
• Quickie: New Policy
• Quickie: Have You Tried It?
• Quickie: Carry On
• Quickie: Shortage of Talent
• Every Freaking Time
• Quickie: Go Your Own Way
• Second Think Different Weekly Tuesday Drop-in
• Quickie: Your Real Job
• Quickie: Constant State of Ship
• Quickie: Promises, Promises
• Quickie: Antimatter Principle Modified
• Quickie: The Software Crisis Continues
• Quickie: Keep On Keeping On
• Quickie: ZeeDee Invites Discussing Folks’ Needs
• Kids Are Our Future
• Quickie: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust
• Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
• Quickie: Purity
• Quickie: Science is Anarchy
• The Science of Memes
• Quickie: HR Weenies
• Quickie: Educating People
• Quickie: Phil Crosby’s Four Absolutes of Quality
• Let’s be Honest
• Quickie: Personal Kanban
• Quickie: Schein on Culture
• Quickie: Womack on the Unacceptability of Lean
• Quickie: Help
• How To Predictably Deliver Great Software
• First Think Different Weekly Tuesday Drop-in
• Quickie: Jobsworth?
• Memeology For Developers
• Quickie: Pay for Performance?
• The Rightshifting Cause
• First Principles
• Quickie: Why Agile is Irrelevant
• Multiple Discovery
• If Coaches Were More Like Therapists
• Great Expectations
• Quickie: SWEBOK
• Quickie: Do Nothing That Is Not Play
• Quickie: Kids or Adults
• Automate All the Things!
• Quickie: Rate for the Job
• Doing Things Properly
• Quickie: Edsger Dijkstra Excoriating Software Engineering
• Quickie: Two Hard Things
• Think Different Weekly Drop-in
• Memeology Special Offer
• Quickie: Improving training?
• Quickie: Bill Noonan on Productive Change
• Quickie: Education is All Wrong
• A Cook’s Tour
• Quickie: Relevancy
• What is “A Decent Conversation”?
• Quickie: Where can I go for a decent conversation?
• Quickie: Post-Agile
• Quickie: Compassion
• Stand and Deliver
• Quickie: Local Optima
• Quickie: Obduracy
• Quickies
• I Have A Dream
• Who’s Who
• Deming: “Cease Dependence on Inspection”
• A Quick Guide to Getting the Best Out of the Think Different Blog
• Antisocial Media
• Agilists: They Just Want Your Money
• Cthulhu-Shaped People
• Kent Beck’s Paint Drip People
• Lost Business
• Two Suits, No Hoots
• Changing Culture
• Awesomely Powerful New Ideas
• 5x Productivity
• Culture Shift
• The Naming of Familiar
• That’s a Great Idea But…
• Memeology – Halfway Mark
• Designing the Memeology Cover
• The Path to Organisational Psychotherapy
• Software Development at Scale
• Memeology First Look
• Tumbleweed
• Ambitious
• Oblivious
• An Overabundance of Planning
• Organisational Self-Therapy
• Artefact Driven Delivery
• Management Monstrosities
• Grendels
• Six FAQs Explored
• Cost of Focus Revisited
• Simples
• Structurally Broken
• Current Kindle Library
• Some Familiar Experiences
• Five Reasons Why Agile Coaching is Bullshit
• Behind the Curtain
• Why We’re All So Angry All The Time
• Better Antimatter Customers
• Three Questions
• The Evolution Of An Idea
• Reflective Questions
• Discretionary Effort
• Your REAL Job
• Getting Started as an Organisational Psychotherapist
• What is a Customer?
• OP 101
• Beyond Command and Control – A Book Review
• #NoSoftware
• Why Reason When Faith is So Much More Comfortable?
• What Orgs Want
• My Work
• Damn Outcomes!
• The Aspiration Gap
• Obduracy
• The Big Shift
• Gratitude
• Something’s Gotta Give
• Hearts over Diamonds Preface
• Red Lines
• Standard Work and Collaboration
• Antimatter Principle Elaborated
• Little Islands
• The Edge of Intolerable
• Congruence
• The Design Principles of Organisational Psychotherapy
• A Star is Born
• Management Must Manage
• Random Walks
• Digital Transformation
• Effectiveness
• Ending Therapy
• The Relevance of Giants – 2. O Sensei (Morihei Ueshiba)
• The Relevance of Giants – 1. Deming
• Inventing Agile
• Cognitive Function
• Cost of Focus
• Team Building For High Performance
• The Needsscape
• Solutions Demand Problems
• Some Alien Tropes
• Alien Tech Alien Tropes
• Excolat in Pace
• What is Expertise?
• What is “Working Software”?
• Please Don’t Irk Me with Fast Arguments
• Stainless Steel Rats
• The Folks That Matter™
• The Antimatter Opening Question
• Agile Coach to Organisational Psychotherapist
• Fundamentals of Organisational Psychotherapy
• Most Models Are Wrong
• The Marshall Plan
• Status Quo or Change?
• Difficult Conversations
• Wants, Needs
• A Hiding To Nothing
• The Future of Coding Environments
• Not Obviously Wrong
• Product Owners Suck
• Testbash Dublin and Organisational Psychotherapy
• Testbash Dublin
• Do Nothing That Is Not Play
• Change is a Waste of Time
• Beyond the Pale
• World Class? Really?
• Means and Ends
• Antimatter Evo
• Ten Reasons You Don’t Need Organisational Psychotherapy  
• Three Things That Do Change Thinking
• Six FAQs – X or Y?
• Holistic Solutions for Product Development Businesses
• Obstacles to True Consensus – Summary
• Obstacles to True Consensus – Solutioneering
• Obstacles to True Consensus – Extrapolating From the Past
• Obstacles to True Consensus – The Smart Conservative
• Obstacles to True Consensus – The Dominant Impatient Visionary
• Organisational Psychotherapy and the Bottom Line
• Pillars
• Innovation ALWAYS Demands We Change the Rules
• Reliability and Effectiveness
• Strategies, Effective and Ineffective
• Antimatter Hiring
• Coaching, Scrum Mastering, and Expertise
• The One Perfect Way to Develop Software
• No Hashtags
• I Make No Promises
• The Advice Process – Flaws and Fixes
• Learn Through Delivering
• Tasks – or Deliverables
• Organisational Psychotherapy In the Field
• How to Communicate Your Needs At Work
• The Heart of Organisational Psychotherapy
• Nonjudgmental Feedback
• The Future Of Software-Intensive Product Development
• What’s The One Question A Scrum Master Must Ask?
• We’re All In This Together
• Constraints On Effective Product Development
• The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work
• Surely You Can’t Mean That?
• The Concept Of Value
• The Twelfth Principle
• The Healthful Alternative To Management
• The Organisational Psychotherapy Approach To Agile Coaching
• Seven Research-Based Principles for Making Organisations Work
• I Lied
• Ten Tips for Organisational Therapists
• Taking Wings
• An Intention Announced
• Why The Future of Humanity Depends On Organisational Psychotherapy
• Discombobulated
• Making Contact
• A Deliberate Approach
• An Invitation To Contribute And Share
• I Have Nothing Left To Say
• A Second Open Letter to the Project Management Community
• A Difficult Message To Hear
• The Inner Space Race
• Unilateralism – And What To Do About It
• After Agile
• Rightshifting In A Nutshell
• What If #8 – Agile Never Happened
• Collaborative Change
• Helping Folks Find Their Own Answers
• What If #7 – No Work
• What If #6 – Agile Nirvana
• My Definition Of Agile
• On Becoming An Organisational Psychotherapist
• The Antimatter Model
• Wahnsinn ist das. Wahnsinn. Heller Wahnsinn!
• I’ve Done It So It Works
• The Cold Wet Nose Of Reality
• The Agile Enterprise Is A Thing But Not THE Thing
• NVC In The Workplace
• Nine Aspects Of Top Developers
• Metaflow
• The Shift
• Meeting Folks’ Needs At Scale
• The Care And Training of Your PET TEAM
• What If #5 – Continuous Improvement Is Useless
• Do Something
• Antimatter Emotioneering
• What If #4 – No Answers
• Antimatter And Deming’s 95/5
• A Rose By Any Other Name
• What If #3 – No Telling
• The Antimatter Principle – The Anti-Kanban For Almost Two Decades Already
• Are You Just Another Adjunct Of A Unimatrix?
• The Antimatter Transformation Model
• Open
• What If #2 – No Process
• Those Bastards Need To Get A Grip
• Plausible
• Why Me?
• The First Step
• Business Development
• Aliens
• I Love To Play With Organisations
• Rightshifting the HiveMind
• What If #1 – No Management
• Unlocking Human Potential
• Head, Heart And Soul
• The Two Antimatter Questions
• What is Nonviolence?
• Codes of Conduct
• How To Connect With Folks’ Needs
• Tech Folks Don’t Grok People Things
• Cultural Fit
• Role Models
• Some Homos
• Catch-22
• The Antimatter Pattern – Update
• Parlour Tricks
• We Know Not What We Do
• Emergence
• A Map To The Future
• How Not To Write A Scrum Master Job Description
• Framing the Antimatter Principle
• The Bees’ Knees
• I Am Your Therapist
• I Am Not Your Therapist
• Microservices In Embedded Systems
• What’s In It For Me?
• How to Develop Software – And Why Most Organisations Can’t
• Agile Competency Is A Crock
• Out Of House FlowChain
• As Simple As Possible
• Stuck
• Agile Consultancies Aren’t
• Dead Wood
• Twelve Signs Of A Great Agile Evangelist
• Ten Things to Stop Doing To Yourself
• No One Needs Effectiveness
• The Nature of the Problem
• NeedsFlow
• Attending To The Needs Of Others
• The Nine Obsessions of the Extraordinary Software Development Manager
• What’s A Good Job?
• The Antimatter Proposition
• Who I Am
• Antimatter And The Marshall Model
• Changing Ourselves
• Antimatter Stories
• Antimatter Recruiting
• Raising The Bar
• Managers Don’t Hate Agile
• A New Hope
• Why Familiar Was Europe’s First 100% Agile Software House
• What Is Agile Software Development?
• Drunk On Power
• A Bit About Organisational Effectiveness
• The Antimatter Why
• The Antimatter Manifesto
• Any Questions?
• We Can’t Talk About It
• Capability
• Twenty Years a Scrum Master
• Ten Benefits of Flow
• The Nature of the Challenge
• The Software Development Manager Role Is An Oxymoron
• You’d Have To Be Crazy
• The Specialism Meme
• Act Different
• Theories of Motivation
• More NoTesting
• Listening
• No Testing
• Death On My Mind
• Let The Team Make The Difference
• Producing Software Is Not The Purpose Of Software Development
• The Scrum Master Role Is a Huge Waste of Human Potential
• Workspaces
• Pay Me To Play
• Fixing Product Development
• Needs And Fulfilment
• This Rotten Edifice
• Are You Stuck?
• No Need To Learn
• Why Rightshift?
• Why Does Agile Fail?
• Changing Behaviours
• Changing Others?
• Product Development 101
• A Prayer For Effective Discussions
• Dancing With Entropy
• Them And Us
• Amanuensarian
• Write Your Own – Flow
• The Universal Scrum Master Failure
• Under Pressure
• Are You Sitting Comfortably?
• Quandary
• Joy in Work
• Here Comes The Plumber
• What An Effective Group Workshop Looks Like
• You’re Not As Effective As You Think
• A Digital Trail
• TDR – Test Driven Relationships
• Expectations
• Why Aren’t We Rich Yet?
• The Busy Managers’ Guide To Winning Big
• Subtle Signs It May Be Time To Call In The Therapist
• Holding The Space
• Compensation
• It’s All An Act
• I Don’t Want To Respect You
• Why Corporates Can’t Change
• Shifting Mindset – The ROI Is There
• The Antimatter Pattern
• No Projects
• Five Ways Agile Governance Can Help You Have More Fun
• What’s A Manager To Do?
• Six FAQs
• A Faster Workstation
• Antimatter Workshops
• Seven Changes To Improve Flow In Your Software Development Process
• Antimatter Standup
• Principles WTF
• 17 Ways To Piss Off New Hires Before They Even Start
• Insane
• Antimatter Story
• Tea Lady
• Minimum Viable Post
• Attending to Needs is All We Need
• GDS Design Principles – Improved
• I Pledge
• Organisational Transitions
• Mañana
• The Business Case For Organisational Psychotherapy
• Local Optima
• Want to be Great?
• Connections
• If At First…
• A Note of Caution
• The Balanced Team
• Using The Marshall Model
• Things We Could Be Doing
• The Words We Use
• I Didn’t Sign Up For All This People Crap
• The Future of Work
• Flow, Shmo
• Eight Ways Customer Value is Killing Your Business
• Can We Imagine?
• Objectives, Proclaimed vs Practised
• Can You Use A Scrum Master?
• Code Refactoring
• Core Practices for the Antimatter Principle
• Vital Conversations
• Dukkha
• What Are Values?
• The Antimatter Decision Filter
• Why Talking About Feelings Can Help
• I Don’t Want Agile Back
• We Have The Technology…
• Unbelievable!
• Engineering Excellence
• The Longer View
• Wolf Magic
• Different Worlds, Different Roads
• A Vocabulary for the Antimatter Principle
• Monkey Magic
• It’s Mutual
• Finding For ƒ
• Change, Kotter and Antimatter
• Our Mutual Friends
• What’s Wrong With Judgment?
• Community Matters
• The World As One
• An Open Letter To My Audience
• The People vs. System Conundrum
• Breadcrumbz
• For The Rational Folks
• Looking After Each Other
• Pointless
• What Are Needs?
• Who Needs Kanbans?
• Who Needs Retrospectives?
• The Tyranny of Method
• One Principle, One Agendum
• Silos and Tribes
• Poka-Yoking The Method
• A Finger Pointing at the Moon
• Roots
• A New Frame
• The Antimatter Principle – the Metaphor
• The Antimatter Principle
• Can’t Be Bothered
• Health Warning
• Bravery
• From Here to Eternity
• Playing with Other People’s Money
• Why Improvement
• The Management Violence Inherent In The Golden Rule
• Octavian and the Seven Sisters (Working Notes)
• Rightshifting and the Marshall Model – Class 101
• Coaching and Deming
• Per Diem
• Business Benefits
• Does Your Boss Care About You?
• Are You Sitting Comfortably?
• How Can We Do This Better?
• Forecasts, Estimates and Cost Accounting
• No More Stupid Punts
• A System of Continuous Improvement
• Chasing the Dragon
• Gaining Discipline
• Homogeneous Mindsets
• The Bailer’s Creed
• What is a Humane Relationship?
• Misery Loves Company
• The Power of Humane Relationships
• Bail or Bale?
• WIBNI
• Hyper-joyful
• The Same Old Way
• Slow Change
• Learning to Let Go
• Product Aikido
• Optionality – The Double-Edged Sword
• The Ethics of Change
• A Simple Business Case For Treating People Differently
• Three Books
• The Agile Path to Quality
• Manage As If You Meant It
• Intervention on People Issues is a Red Herring
• Stakeholder, defined
• Effective Product Development
• Baggage
• Nonviolent Inspiration
• Ambitions
• Product Development Flow
• Introducing Rightshifting
• What’s Wrong with the Project Approach?
• Nonviolent Management
• Nonviolent Meetings
• Business Doctrine
• Nonviolent Change
• Taking Vocabulary to Task
• Nonviolent Employment
• Bioteams
• Nonviolent Project Management
• Beware Eumemics
• Approaching Change
• What is Violence?
• Wax On Jerk Off
• Nonviolent Conferencing
• Overcapable
• Damning with Fulsome Praise
• The Ties that Bind
• Who Watches the Watchmen?
• Fellows of the Human Spirit
• How Likely is It?
• Memes of the Four Memeplexes
• Peter Picked a Peck of Profound Purpose
• The Next Revolution
• Developer Chops
• Agile Tour Riga 2012 Report
• Better Conferences – Revisited
• OrgCogDiss
• What Shall We Do with the Project Managers?
• Seven Reasons Why Every Business Needs a Therapist
• French Letters
• A Foolish Consistency
• The Organisation’s Therapy Experience
• The Organisational Therapist’s Experience
• Individual vs Organisational Psychotherapy
• Why Milk is Thicker than Water
• My Organisational Psychotherapy Toolkit
• Quackery, Snake Oil and Local Fixes
• Wolves or Shepherds
• All-time Top Posts
• Why Job Interviews Suck
• Business Technology Blog with the Telegraph
• Are You Brave Enough?
• Dreaming
• How to Map a Memeplex
• A Beginner’s Guide to Personal Integrity
• Faith
• Nonviolent Programming
• High Voltage
• Wanna See me Juggle?
• How to Be a Great Software Development Manager
• The Way of the Harmonious Spirit
• Progress with Nonviolent Communication
• Productivity
• Business 42.0
• Quantification vs Measurement
• Evidence, Vested Interests and Wishful Thinking
• Lean Agile Scotland 2012 – A Review
• How to Give Feedback
• Discipline
• Respect For People
• Just Two Questions
• Two Masters
• Just One Fix
• Medication, Meditation and other Analogies
• Hypotheses, Falsifiability and the Limits of First-World Science
• Conway’s Law Revisited
• Gateway Drug to Synergism
• If You Were a Car…
• Sticky Change
• There is no Organization, but…
• Planning to Flourish
• The CI Vaccine
• On the Radar
• Dumb Fraud
• Null-A
• Creating Sane Organisations
• Debate to the Death
• Speaking at Lean Agile Scotland 2012
• Why Does Agile Work?
• An Open Letter to the Project Management Community
• Barking Up the Wrong Tree
• Grassed Up
• Balkanisation
• Dare to Disagree
• Zen and the Art of Organisational Enlightenment
• Power, Hierarchies and other Dysfunctions
• Prod•gnosis in a Nutshell
• Babble
• The Advantage – A Book Review
• Leadership or Fellowship
• Stigma
• Vexation
• The Shrink is IN
• What is a Mindset?
• Perspectives on Rightshifting
• The Inductive Deductive Schism
• Make Bad Hires!
• Uncovering the Learning Habits of Leaders and Managers
• The Face of the Mind
• The Wedge and the Cheese
• Ten Lessons for World Class
• ScrumMaster or TaskMaster?
• Ackoff Contrasts Efficiency with Effectiveness
• Bugs Are a Signal
• Cognitive Easement
• Fellowship
• The Games People Play
• Wonga
• Sardines
• Skinny Dipping
• Promotion Commotion
• What Veiled Magic Hath the Question?
• Retrospectives – Wronger and Righter
• Focus
• So You Really Want to be an Agile Developer?
• Shifting and Drifting – Some Measures
• Swimming Against the Tide
• Mea Culpa
• What is Value?
• The Nine Principles of Organisational Psychotherapy
• Values Purpose and Meaning
• What are Non-Obvious Systemic Constraints?
• Fixation
• Wikipedia is Wonderful
• The Gravy Train Rolls On
• How to Communicate With Your Customers
• What Are You Worth?
• Value and Effectiveness
• We’re All Wasting Our Time
• Lay Off the Managers
• All Executives are Unethical
• Emotioneering at the BCS
• Pearls Before Swine
• The Familiar Credo
• This is Not a Blog Post
• Agile Development Doesn’t Work
• Kinky Agile Sex
• How to Spot a Lemon Consultant
• Better Customers
• Agile Blogging
• Better Business
• Better Conferences
• This Shitty Agile Compremise
• Why Directors Should Give a Damn About Culture
• Society and the Analytic Mindset
• On the Morality of Dissent
• Time For the Agile Old Guard to Retire
• The Agile Train is Heading for Radicalsville
• Agile Coaching is Evil
• Agile! Huuuh. What is it Good For?
• What Makes a Mindset?
• Agile – Circa 1997
• Project Charters and Social Contracts
• Mutual Learning
• What Makes a Great Software Developer
• Misconceptions of the Analytic Mindset
• Commercial or Progressive?
• Nice and Respectful
• Radical Leadership (redefined)
• Starting Out As I Mean To Go On
• Transitioning From Amplify.com Blog
• Coaching and Peer-instruction More Effective Than Teaching
• Clausewitz’s Concept of Friktion – Bungay’s diagram
• Software Kitchen Nightmares
• The Nature of Time-boxing
• PERMA and the Positive Business
• A Round-up of European Lean/Agile Conferences
• Applying Silent Grouping to Sprint Retrospectives
• Managing Costs Causes Costs to Rise
• The Carrying-Cost of Code: Taking Lean Seriously
• 10 Reasons CEOs Unwittingly Sabotage Innovation
• Microbes Swap Genes to Communicate; We Have the Option to Swap MEMEs to Communicate
• Critical Agile Memes
• Second London Rightshifting Unconference Report #LRU2011
• Rightshifting Recruitment
• Another Definition of Rightshifting
• Psychology of Change in Organisations
• Neuroscience of Rightshifting
• The Improvement ROI Sawtooth
• The Origins of the Marshall Model
• The Rightshifting Ethos
• Rightshifting Transitions (Part 2)
• Rightshifting Transitions (Part 3)
• Rightshifting Transitions (Part 1)
• The Many Roles in Software Projects
• Contextualising FlowChain
• A Great Example of the Synergistic Mindset
• There’s a Lot of it About (Bullshit)
• Employees’ Self-confidence – A Cinderella of Organisational Effectiveness
• Traditional vs “New” Management Thinking
• The Constant Tension Between Rightshift and Left-drift
• The Term “Analytic Mindset” Defined
• We’re All Human (Even CEOs)
• Does the Project Manager Have a Future in the World of Agile?
• In-band vs Out-of-band Change in Technology Businesses
• To Deliver the Project at Hand, or Improved Project-delivering Capability for the Future?
• Agile/Lean Principles Simply Will Not Scale
• #lru2010 Conference Report
• Would You Rather Not Know?
• Rightshifting and the Senior Management Pitch
• Delivering Software is Easy
• The State of Agile
• The Developer’s Job
• Agile. Necessary but not Sufficient.
• Bain on Business / IT Alignment
• The Teflon Consultants
• The Starting of Familiar
• Tom Gilb Laments the “10 Wasted Years of Agile”
• What Next for the Agile Community?
• The Nature of the Rightshifting Challenge
• Transcript of Email to @papachrismatts Explaining #Rightshifting
• Why Agile is No More (or Less) Than a Skunkworks
• Just Burning Toast and Scraping It
• Agile: Doing the Wrong Thing Righter
• “Coach as expert” vs “Coach as facilitator”
• Career Paths for Technical Folks
• Do Managers Need Deep Technical Skills?
• Commitment to Sprint Delivery vs Time-boxing
• A Personal Charter
• Pitching Agile – Some Lessons Learned
• My Forlorn Love Letter to Agile
• An Agile Koan – If You Meet Buddha on the Road, Kill Him