SPaMCAST 723 - Neglected WIP, Time According to Jon M Quigley, Essays and Conversations

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">SPaMCAST 723 features our essay on neglected WIP. Work that has been started and is now just sitting around is neglected. Running a team or organization above their natural level WIP for any length of time causes flow velocity (throughput) to slow and flow time (cycle time) to increase. When there is too much work, people try all sorts of techniques to get work done. Multitasking is the grandfather of them all and we all know how that turns out (need a hint – badly). In the end, all approaches to trying to do too many ends up with some things being juggled and ignored. That is neglected WIP.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also have a visit from Jon M Quigley and his Alpha and Omega of Product Development Column. In this column Jon and I discuss time. Speaking of time, this is a lost episode…we started the episode discussing snow, last year's snow. We talked last week and were discussing when the first snow will be this year. Sometimes time flys and sometimes it doesn’t</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><strong>Re-read Saturday News</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week we reread Chapter 10 of Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins (SPaMCAST Amazon affiliate link</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/38G0ZD3"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://amzn.to/38G0ZD3</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">). The chapter is titled Coach as Coordination Conductor</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The two most important items for me during this read of chapter 10 are found in the first part of this chapter. Reflecting back on my previous cover-to-cover read, I think that the number of great facilitation techniques in this chapter caused me to overlook two very important concepts. The first is an approach for differentiating collaboration and coordination. The approach is simple but very powerful. Why would any coach care about observing the difference? Because the two concepts are differ