SPaMCAST 624 - Grateful and Servant Leadership Combined, Our Stories Aren’t Getting Done!, Essays and Conversations

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Software Process and Measurement Cast 624 is structured a little differently. We begin with the conclusion of a three-column arc on grateful leadership from Susan Parente’s Not A Scrumdamentalist Column. In this installment, Susan and I discuss how servant leadership, commonly practiced by agilists, can combine with grateful leadership to be even more powerful. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Catch up on earlier installments of this arc </span></p> <p><a href="https://bit.ly/2H31VUg"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">SPaMCAST 621</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://bit.ly/35UWLDQ"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">SPaMCAST 617</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After Susan’s column, we visit the first essay in the four-part series on why teams don’t get stories done when they say they will.  The essay</span> <a href= "https://tcagley.wordpress.com/2020/10/20/our-stories-arent-getting-done/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Our Stories Aren’t Getting Done!</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">names the three usual suspects that cause stories to “escape” sprints.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Re-Read Saturday News </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chapter 20 of Tame your Work Flow is titled Operational Governance in PEST Environments. Daniel Doiron describes this chapter as an ode to management by exception.  There are two threads in this chapter that I highlight. The first is Steve and Daniel’s discussion on the need for different perspectives to identify the constraint in complicated environments. The second major component in the chapter is a discussion of an approach for governance. As I am quoted at the end of the chapter giving this book my highest praise, “this book is very useful.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This weeks installment </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 20:</span> <a href= "https://bit.ly/2U2TGu2"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Operational Governance in