Discover Your Change – Page 5 – Socratic Conversations, Strong Coherent Teams, Clear Direction

Discover Your Direction one Step at a Time
Find direction by identifying & tracking incremental steps forward.
Discover Your Path
You know you better than any expert. Socratic conversations lead to self-discovery.
Discover the Wisdom of Your Teams
Your teams collective wisdom is wiser than the most knowledgeable person in the room.

Where is life taking you?

We all possess the creative ability to reach our personal and professional goals. Sometimes all we need is someone to help us unlock that potential. Coaching unleashes a thought provoking and creative process giving you the ability to maximize your personal and professional potential. Organizationally, coaching unleashes the amazing wisdom of teams. Coaching does this by creating an environment for diversity of opinion, independence, decentralization and aggregation. Socratic conversations lie at the heard of discovery. As an individual or team, you possess all you need to discover your next step.

Enjoy Socratic Conversations

You know your wishes and desires better than any expert. Engage in Socratic conversations with your coach. lead to self-discovery.

Unleash the Creativity of your Teams

Teams possess all the wisdom needed to discover how to work together in a competitive, diverse and complex world.

Discover Your Direction one Step at a Time

Know you're improvement experiments are working by setting clear measurable goals.

How to Decompose Epics & Stories

Jan 25, 2015LarryProduct Owner StuffAgile Scrum, critical numbers, Larry Lawhead, manage by numbers, managing issues, project management

Assigning Epics effort estimates is risky business. However, since organizations usually require schedules and budgets when uncertainty is at its highest, continuously defining effort as the decomposition process evolves may work. It must be remembered, no estimate is completely accurate but this process does offer a consistent measurement. This model begins by assigning high estimates and reducing the value

Numbers, Time and Benchmarks

Jan 25, 2015LarryScrum Master StuffAgile Scrum, budgets & schedules, critical numbers, Key Performance Indicators, KPI, Larry Lawhead, project management

What do you value? Numbers and time are interesting. They have no value in themselves, but success is constantly measured by them. Sports teams, businesses, families and even religious organizations have their set of sacred numbers and times. Either is simply the representation of value. If I am hungry two apples are more valuable than one.

Project Cost Example

Jan 18, 2015LarryProduct Owner Stuff, Scrum Master StuffAgile Scrum, budgets & schedules, critical numbers, Larry Lawhead, project management

Important Please read the previous post explaining this model, before reviewing the example below. This example uses the following steps. Adds employee salary, benefits and contractor fees as cost variables. Calculates how much these variables cost each week. Sets highest number of story points burned down during a sprint as benchmark. Multiplies the weekly cost of the sprint by

Calculating Project Costs Using Story Points

Jan 18, 2015LarryProduct Owner Stuff, Scrum Master StuffAgile Scrum, budgets & schedules, cost accounting method, cost management model, Larry Lawhead, project management, story points

Fibonacci Numbers & Dog Breeds? Managers using the cost accounting method to estimate projects are often lost when it comes to calculating the cost of Agile Scrum projects. Where the cost accounting method typically uses cost of time per project task as a key variable, Scrum uses effort estimates and “time boxes”. To make matters worse, effort estimates