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_posts/2011-11-11-oredev-2011-day-3.md

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[Visualizingquality.org](http://Visualizingquality.org/)
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_posts/2014-03-01-team-yayasan-getting-started.md

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Finally we created a wiki where we added information around each hospital and clinic.
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When we had done that we started to have a conversation about where this would lead us. It would lead to greater transparency and that's a really good thing, was the common conclusion in the team. We decided to press on with this idea. I summarised our thinking in a couple of keywords and created a wiki about it. Here's an extract of it
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When we had done that we started to have a conversation about where this would lead us. It would lead to greater transparency and that's a really good thing, was the common conclusion in the team. We decided to press on with this idea. I summarized our thinking in a couple of keywords and created a wiki about it. Here's an extract of it
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> **Transparency** - We believe that we should seek more and more transparency. It fosters a good and open culture of collaboration and openness. In a transparent setting its easier to get help, easier to share information and harder to hide and do bad things.
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> Ultimately this leads to trust being built up and shared among the members of the organization. We trust each other to do good and I, as member of the organization, knows that everything I do will be visible for everyone else in the organization.

_posts/2014-03-24-do-you-think-kanban-can-help-us.md

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Well, I return your favour and answer it a bit more elaborated than that.
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First of all: Kanban or not is not that important. What is important (i think) is to see what you are doing (and problems/opportunities you're facing), strive to complete work fast and help the workflow to work better. This could be summarised in:
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First of all: Kanban or not is not that important. What is important (i think) is to see what you are doing (and problems/opportunities you're facing), strive to complete work fast and help the workflow to work better. This could be summarized in:
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_posts/2016-10-03-big-room-planning---a-failure-testatment-i-like.md

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We then held the meeting itself, involving about 25-30 people in our teams and ca 20-25 people from groups around us that we need to get our stuff out of the door. Some of these people were high-ranking people that (in case) we needed to resolve prioritisation issues and dependencies.
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Today I've spent the better part of 8 hours trying to summarise and document what was said during the meeting. I'm not quite done yet so maybe a few hours more before it's done.
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Today I've spent the better part of 8 hours trying to summarize and document what was said during the meeting. I'm not quite done yet so maybe a few hours more before it's done.
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All in all - quite an investment to get our sights aligned and our work planned. We planned for 5 weeks ahead, which is much shorter than recommended by SAFe (8-12 weeks) but still enough that we didn't know for sure what is going to be delivered in the end of the session.
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But here goes; here's a suggestion that requires no changes in organization and a lot less overhead in setting meetings up. We have parts of this in place already in my current team and I long for the time when we can do this smoother than a big room planning.
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We've created a kanban board for the high-level stories (we summarise those in a one page format stating the hypothesis, size, metrics and other important facts about the feature) that are lined up for development.
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We've created a kanban board for the high-level stories (we summarize those in a one page format stating the hypothesis, size, metrics and other important facts about the feature) that are lined up for development.
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_posts/2016-10-03-move-the-information-to-the-authority-considered-harmful.md

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You need to take this higher up. To the management team. They make the decisions in matters like these, cutting across departments.
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In order to present this information in a correct way you need to **summarise** the information, calculate a **business case** and present some certainty of **positive** improvement (or they will not look at it) and finally **get time** with the correct people in a meeting where they are ready to make the decision.
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In order to present this information in a correct way you need to **summarize** the information, calculate a **business case** and present some certainty of **positive** improvement (or they will not look at it) and finally **get time** with the correct people in a meeting where they are ready to make the decision.
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Their job is to summarise, simplify and concretise information, situations, context and problem that one group have, a group that they are not working in, to present to another group of people, that is not in that situation either, so that the second group can make a decision to help the first group.
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Their job is to summarize, simplify and concretise information, situations, context and problem that one group have, a group that they are not working in, to present to another group of people, that is not in that situation either, so that the second group can make a decision to help the first group.
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Another example; at my company, [Aptitud](http://www.aptitud.se), all invoices for things that employees buys will be sent to everyone in the company. Sure you can buy a TV and call it a "computer related working device" - but remember that everyone will see it.
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**Accountability** - if you make decisions you will also face the consequences. At Amazon this is summarised in the slogan ["You build it - you own it"](http://aronatkins.github.io/2014/12/23/you-build-it-you-own-it.html). You will have to take **responsibility** for the things you do. Just likes adults do in real life.
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**Accountability** - if you make decisions you will also face the consequences. At Amazon this is summarized in the slogan ["You build it - you own it"](http://aronatkins.github.io/2014/12/23/you-build-it-you-own-it.html). You will have to take **responsibility** for the things you do. Just likes adults do in real life.
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_posts/2017-01-10-kindness.md

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_posts/2017-08-07-changing-the-die---that-cant-go-faster.md

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All the data from a survey ends up in a Google Sheet called ["Form Responses"](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aSel__vOK1u3Njsl9_SMKLlIRETY1RXo5V1vtYf_KJ4/edit#gid=0) or something like that. I have created a sheet like that, but there's no connection to a form now. Doesn't matter for our purpose. This sheet is now our raw-data and we will not touch it, as it gets the data from the Form.
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[My sheet is found here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aSel__vOK1u3Njsl9_SMKLlIRETY1RXo5V1vtYf_KJ4/edit?usp=sharing). If you want to play around you can duplicate it and play around with it.

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