I teach and coach this stuff and I'm always amazed whenever a team tries to put in place simple practices that bring a radical improvement in how they work.
If you try to force Little Law's predicament or the Theory of Constraints on them, they will very often refuse it – I had people accusing me of cheating on the math of the "flip the coin" game, more than once.
To make everything more relatable lately I've been more focused on their experience on being on a queue (at the grocery store, at the bank, and so on: tell me how you would improve that experience) and introducing the concept of flow efficiency ("but I work all day, how is it possible that 85% of our work is spent waiting for stuff?").
"Hey, what about blocking time to work together right after your daily standup? Can it be done?" and then pull somehow magically happens through a very light-touch, informal way of pairing / swarming / mob programming.
I teach and coach this stuff and I'm always amazed whenever a team tries to put in place simple practices that bring a radical improvement in how they work.
If you try to force Little Law's predicament or the Theory of Constraints on them, they will very often refuse it – I had people accusing me of cheating on the math of the "flip the coin" game, more than once.
To make everything more relatable lately I've been more focused on their experience on being on a queue (at the grocery store, at the bank, and so on: tell me how you would improve that experience) and introducing the concept of flow efficiency ("but I work all day, how is it possible that 85% of our work is spent waiting for stuff?").
"Hey, what about blocking time to work together right after your daily standup? Can it be done?" and then pull somehow magically happens through a very light-touch, informal way of pairing / swarming / mob programming.
I really enjoyed it and feel we need to apply this concept ASAP.
Pulling + Self-Management looks best for any software development in a stuck situation.
The pulling itself moves for pushing boards towards done step.