SAFe PI Planning, Distributed Teams, Conteneo Weave
This is all content that a) comes from https://conteneo.co/, b) is great for distributed teams, and c) I highly recommend and use myself. A challenge faced
Blogs
Planning Architectural Evolution with Snapshot Diagrams
A new method for planning architectural evolution, 4-square snapshot diagrams Planning evolutionary change is hard, especially for software architecture. I’ve been developing and successfully working
A New Problem Solving Technique To Prevent Jumping to Conclusions
Learn about a helpful tool you can use to analyze and fix complex problems.
The Outbox: An EIP Pattern
John explains what the Outbox pattern is, how it works and points out its importance in Enterprise.
Don’t Blame the Capital Letters
I’ve personally seen capital letter branded frameworks blamed for all manner of ills. Blaming is a waste of time. Let’s look at the real problems. Read More
Keynote at the Lean India Summit 2013, Work Visualization
Watch John Heintz’s presentation where he describes various techniques he’s used to help individuals and teams see, manage, and accomplish work.
The User Story, an elegant requirement
As a product manager, I want to better understand and articulate requirements so that I can more effectively guide development to create value. Agile User
Video: Sequential and Collaborative Planning
This is the first video in a new series, Gist Labs’ Experiments in Video. I’m very happy to be joined by my friend Matt Roberts.
Video: Business Impact DevOps
Luke Hohmann, Innovation Games, and John Heintz, Gist Labs, are interviewed about the selling and buying process for agile infrastructure and DevOps technology. Watch Now
Video: Motivation for Agile
This video explains why Agile is different and often better than a predictive or waterfall planning and execution model.Watch Now
Video: Mechanics of Agile Development
I had the good fortune to work with The InnovationGames® Company and record some videos on Agile and DevOps topics. This video describes some of
Visualizing Work
Whether you’re managing small projects or large ones with a team of one or team of 100, visualization techniques are very helpful. Take a look at these tools and try some in your projects. Read More
SPOOn Framework: Context and Consequence
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
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
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
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
Ignore hours, focus on collaboration
Here’s a quiz for Agile team members using burndown charts. What does this picture mean? Seems pretty good, right? Work is getting done, pretty close
Big Data, Little Tests
This is the content for my Agile2012 presentation. (Download BigDataLittleTests-Heintz) Slides are attached to this post, and these are the GitHub repos: https://github.com/jheintz/sample-hadoop-testing https://github.com/jheintz/sample-riak-testing https://github.com/jheintz/riak-download Here
Abstract != Vague
(I’ve re-published this here. Originally published on my old personal blog). I’ve got a bone to pick, so I’ll do it here. This is a
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: Everything you do in
Instant Play Innovation Games
Have a diagram you use for understanding or explaining? Want to turn it into an online collaborative tool? Yes, you really can Design your own
Agile Airplane Game
This is the multi-team airplane game that we use to introduce Agile through games. This game especially highlights how teams work together (or don’t as
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’re glad
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
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. (This
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
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
John Heintz co-presenting at Agile Roots 2010
John Heintz will be co-presenting with Israel Gat on Toxic Code. I’m very excited, both to be presenting with Israel Gat (The Agile Executive) and
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. Since I attended
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. The Lean SSC conference in
Kanban: A Process Tool
This is the presentations John Heintz gave to the Austin JUG on “Kanban: A Process Tool“