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By: Software Product Success Stories

Software Product Success Stories — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:41:06 +0000

[...] Pawel Brodzinski on October 15, 2007 There’s a meme about successful projects initiated by Scott Sehlhorst. Generally the goal is to describe a project which, with your help, [...]

By: Process empowerment and team building through retrospectives | Nerd Guru

Process empowerment and team building through retrospectives | Nerd Guru — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:43:16 +0000

[...] Taking on the challenge issued by Scott Sehlhorst and the good folks over at Tyner Blain, here’s my “how something I did made a project successful” entry on how we improved teamwork, empowered engineers to make process changes, and let off some steam with a good project retrospective. While hardly rocket science, some wrinkles in the steps below are unique and helped improve the results of the session. [...]

By: Software Product Success Stories : PM Stories

Software Product Success Stories : PM Stories — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:44:17 +0000

[...] Craig Brown of BetterProjects started a meme with the same title and tagged me to participate in it. He was inspired by a Scott Sehlhorst’s post at Tyner Blain. [...]

By: Agile Advice - Working With Agile Methods (Scrum, XP, Lean) » Blog Archive » Agile Classroom Management

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:08:56 +0000

[...] 3) Get in touch with me to find out more of the details that didn’t make it into this blog entry. The best way to do this is (really) through my business web site: berteigconsulting.com where you can find both email and phone contact information. Well, I finally got around to writing this up. This is part of a series of related articles “tagged” as USEFUL started by Scott who writes at Tyner Blain. His article, which started the game of tag, is called Software Product Success Stories. Scott… I’m sorry this article isn’t about software!!! [...]

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:40:49 +0000

Thanks, Sensei!

By: ActiveEngine Sensei

ActiveEngine Sensei — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:08:05 +0000

I would like to submit this story. It will be illuminating as we are at the receiving end of a product, and as developers recognized how constrained we are by management, yet make the cut using ingenuity and hard work. Here's the story.

By: You Want It When? | Monthly Wrapup - October 2007

You Want It When? | Monthly Wrapup - October 2007 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:02:15 +0000

[...] Finally the second most read article for the month of October was “Managing a Product in Crisis.” I was asked by Scott Sehlhorst of Tyner Blain to share a personal success story. Scott said, “What a great way to put some proof points behind the theories!” in his article, Software Product Success Stories, that created the blog-tagging meme. I agree. There are times when I read articles and wonder if the author writing about software development was ever actually successful. Frankly, at times the writings from the Agile proponents evinces that reaction in me. [...]

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:45:20 +0000

Thanks Craig, and thanks Mike! Welcome to the meme, and we hope that several of your readers answer the call…

Also – two of the three people who’ve responded (directly) to this article did it on their own – I only tagged three people, in hopes that I wouldn’t “use up” all the people who might get tagged. I started with a very long list, and ruthlessly pruned. So for all of you who weren’t tagged – jump on board.

If you don’t have a blog, but still want to tell a story, send me an email with the story, and we’ll get it up here.

By: Craig Brown

Craig Brown — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:00:18 +0000

Scott, Mike Ramm of Stop and Think has also added a story.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:30:05 +0000

Scott,

Thanks for the homework assignment. I just completed may personal success story. You can find it at http://www.yuwantitwhen.com/blog/2007/10/07/managing-a-product-in-crisis/

I have no idea how the previous comment got here; if you know, please share with me the secret as I just posted the article. Could you have seen it and commented that quickly?

I will tag some favorite authors shortly.

Bill Miller

By: You Want It When? | Managing A Product In Crisis

You Want It When? | Managing A Product In Crisis — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:24:02 +0000

[...] I was recently tagged by Scott Sehlhorst of Tyner Blain to write about a personal success story as he requested it: “How I helped make a successful product!” So I’d like share as briefly as I can, a personal success story that I’m most proud to have accomplished with a great bunch of professionals – smart, talented, and just great people to have as colleagues and now have as friends. [...]

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:55:05 +0000

There's another response to our "challenge" at Nerd Guru. Process empowerment and team building through retrospectives. Great Job Pete, and thanks for joining in!

By: Craig Brown

Craig Brown — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:21:46 +0000

Thanks Scott

By: Pete Johnson

Pete Johnson — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:57:42 +0000

Hey Scott, I’ll bite. Here’s mine:

http://blog.nerdguru.net/2007/10/process-empowerment-and-team-building.html

Engineers generally hate process. My post has to do with some details in running the retrospective of the previous project to increase the likihood of the team following it in subsequent projects by giving them real power to change it. While going through that retrospective, there’s some wrinkles in there that help teambuild as well. Process improvement + team synergy = a better project delivery.

Pete Johnson
HP.com Chief Architect
Personal blog: http://nerdguru.net

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:42:21 +0000

Thanks Craig! I edited your comment – your link _was_ pointing back to this article. Now it points to yours. Thanks again!

By: Craig Brown

Craig Brown — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:12:03 +0000

Great post Scott. I have my story.

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:03:51 +0000

Wow - really getting a surge in traffic on this one. Here's what the map was showing around 11pm. ps: scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the map. The number shows 121 simultaneous readers. Other tracking software showed that almost everyone was reading this post.