Agile Story Point Estimation
In agile software development tasks are documented as user stories. Then the level of effort for those stores can be estimated by assigning each story points. The velocity that can be produced in a...
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Learn to Code to Help Your Career
I believe there are big benefits to knowing how to code (programing, software development). What is possible for your organization is often significantly impacted by understanding how to properly use...
View ArticleNew Deadly Diseases
Management and the economy keep evolving. Many good things happen. In the last decade the best things are probably the increased deep adoption of lean thinking in many organization. and the adoption of...
View ArticleBuild Systems That Allow Quick Action – Don’t Just Try and Run Faster
This month Paul Borawski (CEO of ASQ) has asked the ASQ Influential Voices to share their thoughts on the cries for “faster, faster, faster” that so often is a refrain heard today. I have long said...
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Software Process and Measurement Podcast With John Hunter
In my podcast with Tom Cagley, Software Process and Measurement Cast: John Hunter on Management Matters, as you might expect there was a bit of a focus on software development and agile software...
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Your Online Presence and Social Networks for Managers
This month Paul Borawski asked ASQ’s Influential Voices which social networks do quality professionals use? TL;DR My bottom line suggestion is to first start with blogs (get a feed reader and...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Blogging
ASQ interviewed me, and several other ASQ Influential Voices bloggers for an article published in the current issue of Quality Progress magazine: The Blog Boom. A couple of my quotes from the article:...
View ArticleAgile Software Development and Deming
Part two of three of an interview of me with Bill Fox has been published. See part one: John Hunter on PDSA, Deming and Strategy. From part two, Lean, Agile, Deming, Leadership and Management Systems:...
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10 Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Blog in 2014
Here is a list of the 10 most popular posts on this blog last year (as measured by views counted by my analytics applications). The posts were published in 2010 (4 posts), 2013 (2), 2014 (2), 2005 (1)...
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20 Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Blog in 2015
This is a list of the 20 most popular posts on the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog last year (as measured by page views, as recorded by my analytics application). The Toyota Way – Two Pillars...
View ArticleApplying Toyota Kata to Agile Retrospectives
Håkan Forss, King (interactive entertainment games), presentation at the GOTO Copenhagen 2015 conference. I strongly recommend Mike Rother’s book: Toyota Kata. Description from Workshop description...
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Unpacking the Components of Hard Work to Design Better Work Conditions
Effort is grossly underrated by Jamie Flinchbaugh: There is a common phrase of “work smarter, not harder.” I get the appeal of that. Effort without clarity, efficiency, and effectiveness, has severe...
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