SPaMCAST 688 - Flow Metrics Not Velocity, TIme and Work Entry - Complexity, Essays and Conversations

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Continuous improvement through inspecting and adapting is a core tenant of an agile mindset, which dovetails well with every executive’s need to deliver the most value possible.  Measurement is an important tool to help teams and organizations ask the right questions at the right time. Flow metrics, not burndowns and velocity, need to be a big part of any IT organization's approach to measurement. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also have a visit from Jon M Quigley who brings his Alpha and Omega of Product Development column to the podcast.  Jon discusses the complicated relationship between time, work entry, and promises. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you checked out The Open Transformation Playbooks Martin Foster discussed last week? If not, you are missing something important. </span> <a href= "https://transformationplaybooks.org/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://transformationplaybooks.org/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">   </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Open Transformation Playbooks is an initiative to build an open, remixable, body of knowledge for agile organizational transformation.  </span></p> <p><strong>Re-Read Saturday News </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 5 of our re-read of </span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3pI8EGC"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Agile Conversations by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">tackles Chapter 4: The Fear Conversation. Fear has a significant impact on what we think and how we behave. The changes that fear drives don’t stop at the individual, the behavior changes ripple through organizations. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">M</span><strong>y experiment of the week:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Update on last week’s experiment.  I was able to use some of the ideas from the trust conversation this week.  I actually used the statement, “the story I am telling mysel