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Keynote at the Lean India Summit 2013, Work Visualization
At the Lean India Summit 2013 conference in Bangalore I gave the following keynote presentation:
The User Story
As a product manager, I want to better understand and articulate requirements so that I can more effectively guide development to create value.
Video Sequential and Collaborative Planning
This is the first video in a new series, Gist Labs’ Experiments in Video.
Video Motivation for Agile
I had the good fortune to work with The InnovationGames® Company and record some videos on Agile and DevOps topics.
Video Business Impact DevOps
I had the good fortune to work with The InnovationGames® Company and record some videos on Agile and DevOps topics.
Mechanics Agile
I had the good fortune to work with The InnovationGames® Company and record some videos on Agile and DevOps topics.
Visualizing Work
Work can be hard enough, it doesn’t need to be invisible!
The Role of the Scrum Master
The SM is a glue and improvement role… it’s a little difficult to define with bullet list of job requirements. The SM isn’t about scheduling meetings, but ac...
Spoon Framework
tl;dr; We often spend too much time myopically focused on the processes and direct outputs of our work. We must remind ourselves to see the whole by examinin...
Rules for Fast Collaboration
Often we need to work together as a team and make at least some rapid progress in order to make our next decision. There are a few challenges that can really...
Announcing mechanize for java
On a recent project for a one of our startup clients, we at Gist Labs looked for a RESTful client library to support making the server even more hypermedia f...
Ignore hours, focus on collaboration
Here’s a quiz for Agile team members using burndown charts.
Big Data, Little Tests
This is the content for my Agile2012 presentation. (Download BigDataLittleTests-Heintz)
Abstract != Vague
(I’ve re-published this here. Originally published on my old personal blog).
Instant Play Innovation Games
Have a diagram you use for understanding or explaining? Want to turn it into an online collaborative tool?
Business: Knowledge, Risk, and Customer Value
What do knowledge, risk management, and customer value have in common? Only your business value, and here’s what it looks like:
Agile Airplane Game
This is the multi-team airplane game that we use to introduce Agile through games.
Agile Austin 2010 Retrospective
September marks the Agile Austin annual retrospective. This year we decided to use Innovation Games(r) to make the session more interactive and engaging. We’...
Video: Toxic Code Technical Debt Analytics
Israel Gat and I presented “Toxic Code: Technical Debt Analytics” at the Agile Roots 2010 Conference. The video was recorded by Confreaks and is hosted here:
Tools, the T in CRT
This article expands on Tools in a Concrete Reflective Tool. We can start learning tools, but there must be a path to the principles that underly them.
Reflective, the R in CRT
This article expands on Reflective in a Concrete Reflective Tool. Tools that help us learn from their use give us tremendous opportunity for growth.
Concrete, the C in CRT
This article expands on the Concrete in a Concrete Reflective Tool. Applying concrete tools is a good way to avoid alienating over half of your audience.
John Heintz co-presenting at Agile Roots 2010
John Heintz will be co-presenting with Israel Gat on Toxic Code.
Concrete Reflective Tools, the beginning
This is my first post describing Concrete Reflective Tools. I’m convinced they are a gateway drug to continuous improvement and cultural change.
Lean SSC Conference 2010
The Lean Software and Systems Consortium Conference is April 21-23. I’ll be attending and am looking forward to a great conference.
Kanban: A Process Tool
This is the presentations John Heintz gave to the Austin JUG on “Kanban: A Process Tool”