Flow Focused

Flow Focused

Business Agility with Agile and Kanban

Tag: Apps

  • There’s No One Right Way

    There’s No One Right Way

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    Malcolm Bastien
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    Every decision in Agile carries a cost. There is no single “right” way to build products or organize teams; each choice comes with a hidden set of trade-offs. Recognizing Hidden Trade-offs in Agile Practices Agile teams often select practices with a specific goal in mind, overlooking the less obvious consequences. For example, escalating a technical…

  • Transforming Agile Practices with the Kano Model

    Transforming Agile Practices with the Kano Model

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    Malcolm Bastien
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    Many agile transformations focus on replacing rigid, waterfall processes with a standard set of ceremonies, roles, and artifacts. Agile maturity is often measured by how many of these practices a team has adopted, or making sure they’ve adopted the right ones: Long-lived teams are “more agile” than project teams; frequent deployments are “more agile” than…

  • Clear and Paper

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    In my last post I talked a bit about how I was disappointed by Sparrow for iOS because I had seen the same interactions in other apps. Now I want to point out two apps that really wow’d me, Clear and Paper. Clear might not tackle as ambitious a problem as email, but what’s great…

  • Using More of Apple’s iOS Apps

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    Malcolm Bastien
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    I’ve always been interested in finding new apps for my iPhone and iPad. It’s a fun distraction to try out new workflows and see what could help me be more productive. Recently I tried Sparrow, an email client for the iPhone. I tried the app, but I wasn’t as impressed as I thought I would…

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    onethingwell: DoublePane is a very simple window management utility for OS X. It lets you do four things: Make a window fill the left half of the screen. Make a window fill the right half of the screen. Make a window fill the screen entirely. Restore a window to its previous state. All four options…

  • Intimate Apps

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    A little while ago I started rewatching some Merlin Mann keynotes and interviews from last year. Something clicked when I watched this one in particular which I’ve re-posted to the blog recently for another post. In the middle of the talk, Merlin starts going into how people understand the meaning of privacy differently, and one the…