Talk: Turn Up The Good
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Woody Zuill
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Turn Up The Good
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Many things hamper the effectiveness of our teams: Too many meetings about the wrong things, technical debt, bugs, multi-tasking, and so on. Often our first reaction is to say "We need to fix this stuff", yet we never seem to find time to find a solution, and sometimes the solution we've found introduces it's own set of problems. Wouldn't it be nice if these problems would simply "fade away"? While I can't promise you that will happen, that is one of the benefits I've found from using an alternative approach I call "Turn Up The Good". The basic idea: Pay attention to what is working nicely and experiment with ways to make it even better. We'll take a look at examples of how this has worked out in practice, and share how this can be applied in our daily work.
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Many things hamper the effectiveness of our teams: Too many meetings about the wrong things, technical debt, bugs, multi-tasking, and so on. Often our first reaction is to say "We need to fix this stuff", yet we never seem to find time to find a solution, and sometimes the solution we've found introduces it's own set of problems. Wouldn't it be nice if these problems would simply "fade away"? While I can't promise you that will happen, that is one of the benefits I've found from using an alternative approach I call "Turn Up The Good". This concept is expressed nicely by Kent Beck in the first edition of the book "Extreme Programming Explained": “When I first articulated XP, I had the mental image of knobs on a control board. Each knob was a practice that from experience I knew worked well. I would turn all the knobs up to 10 and see what happened. ” - Kent Beck The basic idea: Pay attention to what is working nicely and experiment with ways to make it even better. We'll take a look at examples of how this has worked out in practice, and share how this can be applied in our daily work.
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