Crazy week of travel. Apologies for not posting more.

I do these little diagrams for fun (often when waiting for broken airplanes to be repaired while I enjoy my $10 meal voucher to fly to another airport where I’ll miss my connection). I’ve been thinking about cataloging them in a fun little book. Sound helpful/cathartic? Let me know at @johncutlefish on Twitter, or in the comments. Maybe (to kick my ass) I’ll set up a Kickstarter…and then I’ll NEED to finish.

Here are a couple recent ones…

1. Why does that team seem to always take on too much work?

2. Why does that shared resource seem to be perpetually under-staffed?

3. Why does the team keep slipping into planning big batches?

/#### 4. Why does a myopic focus on increasing velocity eventually hurt quality?

5. Why are the team’s stories never “good enough” ?

6. Why does my team hide things from me?

7. Well…you saw what happened when we tried to just hand them a problem, right?

8. It’s not like old times…

9. Sometimes they get super complex, but I’m not sure these are very helpful…

I think it would be interesting to use something like Donella Meadow’s twelve leverage points

to suggest some potentially helpful interventions. But that’s for another post.