Paul Boos' Nimblicious - Making Agility Tasty

First let’s ensure how I am looking at portfolio management is understood. I’ll use this fairly common definition: it’s the oversight of a set of investments being made for meeting a set of...

https://paulmboos.com/2020/07/19/executive-portfolio-management-using-the-see-lenses/

I’m going to go a bit ‘off-topic’ from my typical Agile, Leadership, Lean, Software, etc. topics and try and provide some information that may help people in these communities. With so many...

https://paulmboos.com/2020/05/09/planning-events-with-covid-19/

I am working with an organization that has many teams that report up through a couple of layers of management. The teams happen to be contracted, though for other organizations I have not seen it...

https://paulmboos.com/2020/05/06/management-accept-feedback-to-clear-your-blindspots/

So I am working with a client that has decided to implement SAFe across its teams. They want to make their management of multiple applications easier. I have no doubt that from their perspective ...

https://paulmboos.com/2020/03/19/safe-does-not-equal-safety/

It’s been a long while since I wrote… Well that is not entirely true; I’ve been writing a considerable amount on Excella’s Insights. It’s about time I returned to a post on my own blog....

https://paulmboos.com/2019/05/12/retrospective-storytelling-a-rfg19-session/

In the Lean community, there is much talk about identifying Value Streams. For some organizations, I think this gets hard to understand in practicality. Yes they can identify the end point where ...

https://paulmboos.com/2017/09/22/creating-and-funding-pipelines-of-decisions/

This post was developed in order to give a longer response to Henrik Ebbeskog’s. Dev: "We'll be back in a week!"CEO: "What can I expect then?"Dev: "Well, something." — Henrik Ebbeskog (@heneb...

https://paulmboos.com/2017/08/13/views-of-estimating-and-not-estimating-for-an-executive/

This was a question posed by my esteemed colleague Bernd Schiffer (@berndschiffer) on Twitter. This is a complicated thing to measure. We all know what effects unsustainable pace has, AND often w...

https://paulmboos.com/2017/07/27/how-do-you-measure-sustainable-pace/

The topic of observing people working has caught my interest more ever since I attended the Problem Solving Leadership workshop run by Gerald (Jerry) Weinberg and Esther Derby. At this year’s A...

https://paulmboos.com/2017/05/01/observing-human-work-systems-a-coaching-fundamental/

At TriAgile, I had an interesting conversation with a Product Owner. She described to me a problem where the testers could not keep up and their behaviors were actually holding them back. Let me ...

https://paulmboos.com/2017/04/06/using-economics-to-encourage-testing-incrementally-or-as-you-go-along/