TL; DR: Mastering Work Intake: The Key to Sustainability and Flow — Hands-on Agile #64
How do you deal with prioritization of the flood of new requirements, requests, and ideas?
Let’s discuss the challenges of mastering work intake to achieve sustainable productivity and flow. In this fantastic recording of the 64th Hands-on Agile Meetup, authors Jeremy Willets and Tom Cagley will share new ideas on a classic challenge for every team. (The video was recorded in English.)
📺 Watch the video now: Mastering Work Intake w/ Jeremy Willets and Tom Cagley — Hands-on Agile #64.
Abstract
Agile and Lean embrace the idea that teams and organizations pull prioritized work. But what happens when work gets pushed on a team or organization? If you’ve seen this anti-pattern, you’re no longer dealing with work “intake” — you’re dealing with work “entry.” Pushing work kills sustainable pace and consistent flow of value delivery. Mastering the work intake challenge could very well make or break your career. Or even your company.
In this session, Jeremy Willets and Tom Cagley started by defining work intake. Then, they focused on how work enters different levels of organizations and discussed strategies for recognizing and solving work intake anti-patterns.
Watch the recording of Jeremy Willets’ and Tom Cagley’s Mastering Work Intake session now:
Slides
You can find Jeremy Willets’ and Tom Cagley’s slides here.
Meet Jeremy Willets
Jeremy Willets is a team lead at Rockwell Automation. He started in software as a Technical Writer on a Scrum team more than a decade ago: “It wasn’t long before I fell in love with Agile. I’ve served thriving organizations as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Senior Agile Coach, Release Train Engineer, and mentor. I’ve even been fortunate enough to speak at a few conferences. When I’m not working with people and teams, you can find me with my family or maybe even making music as TLNGO.”
Meet Tom Cagley
Tom Cagley is a consultant, speaker, author, coach, and agile guide who leads organizations and teams to unlock their inherent greatness. Tom helps teams and organizations improve cycle time, productivity, quality, morale, and customer satisfaction and then proves it. Tom has been an internationally respected blogger and podcaster for over 18 years, focusing on software processes and measurement. His blog entries and podcasts have been listened to or read millions of times.
Connect with Jeremy and Tom
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