SPaMCAST 617 - Pomodoro and Productivity, Grateful Leadership, Essays and Conversations

<p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Software Process and Measurement Cast 617 features our essay on rediscovering productivity.  One of the tools I have embraced is Pomodoro. It is a great approach to staying focused and helps unwonkify time in my home office!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also this week, Susan Parente brings her “Not A Scrumdamentalist” column to the Software Process and Measurement Cast! Susan begins a three-part series on grateful leadership.  Grateful leadership is so much more than just saying thank you.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In between the essay and Susan’s column, we have a promo for the Agile Online Summit 2020.</span> <!--more--></p> <p><strong>Re-Read Saturday News </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chapter 15 of</span> <a href= "https://amzn.to/3bWch1A"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tame your Work</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Flow, introduces the concept of a MOVE, which stands for Minimal Outcome-Value Effort. Steve and Daniel use the construct to help define an atomic level of value delivery that is both minimalistic and sufficient. MOVE, while not replacing the myriad Mxx acronyms (e.g. minimal viable product or minimal marketable product), it provides a mental model for defining items in your portfolio backlog that is focused on throughput accounting.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you bought your copy of  Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s</span> <a href= "https://amzn.to/3bWch1A"><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> Tame your Work</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Flow?  Use the link to support the authors and blog!  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 1:</span> <a href= "https://bit.ly/2LWJ3EY"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Logistics and Front Matter</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">–</span> <a href= "https://bit.ly/2LWJ3EY"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://bit.ly/2LWJ3EY</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 2:</span>