{"id":1095,"date":"2016-09-02T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2017-10-27T23:14:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T06:14:03","slug":"cant-stop-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/cant-stop-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Stop Learning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Passionate Learner<\/h3>\n<p>I am hooked on learning. An\u00a0explanation that finally clicked,\u00a0came while taking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallupstrengthscenter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gallup Strengths<\/a> survey. If you&#8217;ve not taken it, do so. The easiest way is\u00a0to read their book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath\/dp\/159562015X\" target=\"_blank\">Strengths Finder 2.0<\/a>.\u00a0The book gives an explanation of the Gallup approach to building on your strengths and, as would be expected, gives a link to a survey. Building on my love for learning has led to a number of exciting discoveries. Some of these I wish to share during the next few posts.<\/p>\n<h3>From Idea to Sprint<\/h3>\n<p>While not competing with the well rounded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovationlabs.com\/publications\/agile-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Agile Innovation framework<\/a>, I&#8217;ve combined\u00a0a number of processes I&#8217;ve used in the past to come up with a simple approach a single Scrum Master and\u00a0Product Owner working together, can do\u00a0to get new ideas into their\u00a0sprints.\u00a0Here&#8217;s my plan.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What do you see? (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taiichi_Ohno\" target=\"_blank\">Taiichi Ohno&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0take on observation and process improvement.)<\/li>\n<li>Creating a Value Stream Map.<\/li>\n<li>Creating an A3 Root Cause Analysis.<\/li>\n<li>Creating Enduser Personas.<\/li>\n<li>Creating a User Story Map.<\/li>\n<li>Iterative Improvement (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kaizen\" target=\"_blank\">Kaizen<\/a> never stops)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;ll make sure to include references to where the ideas originate and where you can dig deeper if you wish. The main objective is to create a series of posts where we can have fun learning.<\/p>\n<h3>Doing Some Preparation\u00a0Will Help<\/h3>\n<p>Reviewing these topics ahead of time will help a lot. About a year ago, I signed-up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scruminc.com\/scrumlab\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scrum Inc&#8217;s Scrum Lab<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scruminc.com\/scrumlab-open\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scrum Lab Open<\/a> is free and contains a number of great webinars, blog posts, articles and resources. However, the really good\u00a0stuff is found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scruminc.com\/scrumlab-prime\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scrum Lab Prime<\/a>. Along with the items found in the open lab, prime contains countless webinars from past years. With some dedication and lots of free time, you may be able to rifle through the subjects I&#8217;ve listed within the 30 day free trial. If not, the $50 per month is well worth it. A few less take-outs, and you&#8217;ve got it covered.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy reading through\u00a0these ideas as much as I enjoyed doing the research and putting them together. Get ready for a lot of fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passionate Learner I am hooked on learning. An\u00a0explanation that finally clicked,\u00a0came while taking the Gallup Strengths survey. If you&#8217;ve not taken it, do so. The easiest way is\u00a0to read their book Strengths Finder 2.0.\u00a0The book gives an explanation of the Gallup approach to building on your strengths and, as would be expected, gives a link<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/cant-stop-learning\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106,92,107,19,110,104],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-agile-innovation","tag-agile-scrum","tag-kaizen","tag-larry-lawhead","tag-product-owner","tag-scrum-master"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larrylawhead.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}