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Daryl Kulak Lao Tsu on Leadership

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." Lao Tsu Continue

Added by Daryl Kulak on August 30, 2009 at 12:42pm — No Comments

Daryl Kulak The Rich Picture as a Systems Tool

Peter Checkland, one of our pre-eminent systems thinkers, has something he calls the Rich Picture, which is part of his Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). A Rich Picture is to get a fuller view of a "problem situation," including what people are thinking and feeling, their particular perspectives on things beyond just the "hard facts." Here is an example of a good Rich Picture. … Continue

Added by Daryl Kulak on July 18, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Daryl Kulak Illustrations

I don't know if I mentioned this yet, but we wanted to have our illustrations have a "comic book" type of feel to them. Hong and I found an illustrator named Megan Corby who will be doing that work for us. She gave us an initial rough sketch of some of our "characters" who will appear throughout the book. I'll post several of the illustrations as Megan completes them to give you a feel of the finished work. What do you think?

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Added by Daryl Kulak on May 9, 2009 at 11:56am — 2 Comments

Daryl Kulak And Now We're Editing

Well, the long, long process of writing the initial draft is completed. And it's a mess, if I say so myself. My policy while writing was to use the manuscript to contain the sections that I was considering putting in the book, as well as any notes along the way of ideas I had while trying to get to sleep, or conversations with Hong, or random thoughts throughout the day. Plus, each chapter got organized and reorganized without actually deleting anything. (Didn't want to lose that idea, y'know?… Continue

Added by Daryl Kulak on May 9, 2009 at 11:44am — No Comments

Daryl Kulak Agile 1.0 Versus Agile in the Bloodstream

I drew this while I was cooking dinner tonight to illustrate how I think Agile in the Bloodstream is different than most of Agile 1.0 being done today. Your thoughts please.

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Added by Daryl Kulak on May 2, 2009 at 6:22pm — 5 Comments

Daryl Kulak A Systems Thinking Diagram

We talk a lot about systems thinking on this network, but how, exactly, do you analyze a system? Deming, Senge and the gang are in favor of using systems diagrams. Senge's book, The Fifth Discipline, is full of them. Senge's diagrams are great, but I found this really neat example of a systems diagram that illustrates our current 2008-2009 financial crisis. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Added by Daryl Kulak on April 30, 2009 at 12:29pm — No Comments

Daryl Kulak Progress Report - Late April 2009

Here is where we are today:
  1. I've been able to really pound out the chapters being off work this month, even better than I'd hoped. I'm now probably 1-2 weeks away from jumping into editing.
  2. The editing process will be quite interesting. I'm not sure exactly how it will work. Have you seen what our house looked like as I was brainstorming each individual chapter? Post-it notes everywhere. Well, now we need
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Added by Daryl Kulak on April 27, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Daryl Kulak It's Not the Process, It's How You Use It

As we've been discussing many times on this network, "adopting" a new process is not necessarily a means to success. How you "adapt" new techniques/processes/methodologies is the key. This column points out some good specifics on adopting/adapting Agile versus waterfall. Nice job. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/project-management/?p=514&tag=nl.e108 Thanks to Hong for pointing it out. Continue

Added by Daryl Kulak on April 27, 2009 at 12:55pm — 1 Comment

Daryl Kulak Progress Report - April 2009

I don't know if you know this, but this book is seven years in the making (so far). My goal is to get it into print before we hit eight! I thought it might be good to offer a quick progress report on where we are and what our next steps need to be. We've identified 26 chapters. But we aren't writing the book chapter-by-chapter (which is kind of how Eamonn and I wrote the first book). Instead, the process is more like this:

  • Hong and I meet once a week, usually on Sunday morn
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Added by Daryl Kulak on April 14, 2009 at 5:42pm — No Comments

Daryl Kulak New Working Title: Agile in the Bloodstream

We have a new working title. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed ideas in the forums and to me personally. I really appreciate it. Here's the title/subtitle:

Agile in the Bloodstream

Rebuilding Agile and the Concept of the Human Team using Systems Thinking
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Added by Daryl Kulak on February 5, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Daryl Kulak Credibility Over Time

Chris Anderson posted this on his blog. I think it's really funny, but you have to be aware of the background of each buzzword. Chris is the editor at Wired magazine, which published this graph.

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Added by Daryl Kulak on January 10, 2009 at 1:27pm — No Comments

Daryl Kulak Google Docs Isn't in My "Good Books"

Hi, Google Docs is a big disappointment for me this week. I was planning to write like crazy between Christmas and New Year's, having lots of time at home. But then Google Docs loses all my documents yesterday! Made me mad! Yes, of course I had backups. But I wasn't doing them every day, so I did lose about 6,000 words (one day's work). I actually e-mailed John C. Dvorak, a well-known tech columnist, about my problem. Numerous other people are complaining on Google forum's as well. John poste… Continue

Added by Daryl Kulak on December 28, 2008 at 11:10am — 3 Comments

Daryl Kulak Back on Track

Well, I've been inactive on the Ning board but our members have not. Let's keep the discussion going and I'll be more participative from now on. I'm hoping my next project will not be so all-consuming as the last two were! Plus --- no more travel!! Thank you Nationwide Insurance!! Continue

Added by Daryl Kulak on November 28, 2008 at 9:23pm — No Comments

Daryl Kulak Another Big Welcome! Eamonn Guiney

I'd like to welcome another big name to our little network. None other than Eamonn Guiney has joined us! If that name sounds familiar to you, it is because Eamonn is my co-author on the "Use Cases: Requirements in Context" book from 2000 (1E) and 2003 (2E). I'm really happy to have Eamonn join us. He and I challenged each other to write a "decent use cases book" back in 1998 (I think) over lunch and somehow kept the effort going through thick and thin and produced a damn good book. I think the… Continue

Added by Daryl Kulak on August 16, 2008 at 10:07am — No Comments

Daryl Kulak Please Welcome Mike Stockdale

It isn't my normal policy to put a welcome notice for everyone joining Agile + Rigor, but this time I need to make an exception. I worked with Mike Stockdale at Systemhouse back in Calgary Alberta Canada. Mike was the architect on a large oil & gas project and I was the absolute low-man-on-the-totem-pole programmer - Natural+Adabas if I remember correctly. I enjoyed working with Mike and learned a lot from him. I also learned that I wanted to be an architect someday, and six years later I… Continue

Added by Daryl Kulak on July 10, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Daryl Kulak We'll Talk More About "+ Rigor"

Jeff Ulicny's (pronounced you-liss'-nee) post today got me to thinking. Quite a few people have asked about the apparent disconnect between our idea of increasing the rigor of Agile and yet simultaneously focusing more on the people aspect of Agile. I intend to write a post this weekend to talk about this apparent disconnect. This will take quite a bit of time and thought to put into words, and will probably take some back-and-forth with us to have it make sense to our eventual readership. Com… Continue

Added by Daryl Kulak on June 19, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Daryl Kulak Daryl and Geri Winters Meet

Even though Geri and I have been corresponding through e-mail and phone calls for months, we hadn't actually met...until now. I got to meet Geri and her husband Jason in Raleigh at Mama Dipp's Kitchen in Chapel Hill NC. By the way, Geri and Jason are co-authors of the use cases… Continue

Added by Daryl Kulak on June 1, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Daryl Kulak And It Begins!

Hi! Welcome to the Agile + Rigor community!
Thanks for coming. Please read the previous blog posts and then go to the Discussion Forum called "About Agile+Rigor."
If you like what you see, please create a profile for yourself and begin giving us your comments on the blog posts, the discussion forum or elsewhere.

Daryl Kulak
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Dr. Hong Li

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Added by Daryl Kulak on May 4, 2008 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Daryl Kulak State of Indiana Makes Using Waterfall SDLCs a Criminal Offense

Here is a great (belated) April Fool's joke on TechDarkSide.com. Funny!
”Waterfall software development lifecycles have terrorized technology projects in this state for too long,” Governor Mitch Daniels said at a simple signing ceremony held at a meeting of the Central Indiana chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI). “This bill will end the tyranny of big upfront plann
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Added by Daryl Kulak on April 26, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Daryl Kulak Methodology Musical Chairs

In the 1970s, we had several competing methodologies: IBM's SDM/70, Arthur Andersen's Method/1 and many more. It seemed like these methodologies had many differentiators, but, looking back with 20/20 vision, they were more the same than different. They were all all "waterfall" methodologies, meaning that they advocated that we completely finish each phase - requirements, analysis, design, coding, testing, etc. - before proceeding to the next phase. This model has an interesting history. The ter… Continue

Added by Daryl Kulak on April 22, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments

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