A few months ago, I wrote a series of posts in this blog about cognitive bias. Those became the pre-writing for this short ebook: Why Plans Fail. It’s $2.99, or free if you have Amazon Prime. This is the first in our new MemeMachine Series, which will be little eBooks like this that introduce a [...]
JUST LET ME LEARN! Hallway conversations are almost always what people peg as their favorite parts of conferences. Yet conferences rarely provide ample space and time for people to have these conversations. When we actually converse with our peers or with the speakers, we learn more and, more importantly, we retain more. We are actively [...]
“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.” Alfred Korzybski Over the last several years, I’ve studied a lot of processes and watched communities grow around them. I’ve been a member of many of these communities. As processes gain credibility, they [...]
It’s three o-clock in the morning and you’re awakened by the unwelcome beep of a text message. You don’t even have to look at your phone to know what it’s about. Good news always sleeps ‘till noon, as the saying goes, and so you surmise (quite rightly) that somewhere – somehow – something’s gone [...]
When coders have crazy unreadable code its referred to as “spaghetti code.” Single strands of code are impossible to trace through the tangled masses coders can weave. When this happens, it becomes incredibly difficult to understand the original intent of the code, the order in which changes were made, and how to go about making [...]
Modus Cooperandi Press is happy to announce that the book Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life is available for purchase at https://www.createspace.com/3481556 Please watch for a press release and other information in the next few days.
Jim spoke at Oredev in Malmo, Sweden, in November 2010 on The Psychology of Kanban and Personal Kanban and the Individual Coder. Click on the links below to see the video. Clarity Means Completion: The Psychology of Kanban: Clarity Means Completion: The Psychology of Kanban – Jim Benson Personal Kanban and the Individual Coder: Personal [...]
Modus Cooperandi builds collaborative teams using lean and agile management techniques and social media to enable communication and effectiveness.
Jim will be in Phoenix for Agile Alliance’s Scrum Beyond Software conference where his is planning to discuss his use of agile techniques with the United Nations, the World Bank, and in non-software groups in several industries.
