Day 9 of 100 Pickup Sticks and Trim Tabs

Posted by: Alan Shalloway on May 3, 2013

 
Relatively early in my consulting career, I realized that it’s not simply the low hanging fruit you go after, you have to attend how one thing sets up another.  As people learn, some lessons set up others.  I call this the “pick up sticks model for building curriculum.”  Some practices also change the environment within which people work in such a way as to greatly leverage your efforts – these are trim tabs. These two concepts create the opportunity for very powerful insights on how to manage transitions.  Read about both in Trim Tabs and Pick Up Sticks.
 
Al Shalloway
CEO, Net Objectives

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Alan Shalloway

About Alan Shalloway

Al Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With over 40 years of experience, Al is an industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum and agile design. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in these areas. Al is a SAFe Program Consultant as well as a certified Kanban instructor by the Lean Kanban University. Al has developed training and coaching methods for Lean-Agile that have helped Net Objectives' clients achieve long-term, sustainable productivity gains. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide. He is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer. Al has worked in literally dozens of industries over his career. He is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium. He has a Masters in Computer Science from M.I.T. as well as a Masters in Mathematics from Emory University.