http://www.moduscooperandi.com Performance through Collaboration | The Patterns, Practices and Tools of 21st Century Business Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:47:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Modus Cooperandi is pleased to announce the publication of the book Scrumban, Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development, by Corey Ladas.  Expanding on the ideas found in Corey's groundbreaking paper "Scrumban," Scrumban the book provides insight into concepts, metrics, and day-to-day management techniques which make continuous improvement in software ... http://www.moduscooperandi.com/index.php/2008/12/16/scrumban-the-book-is-now-available/ Modus Cooperandi has been applying the lessons of Lean, Agile, and Social Media to organizations. The underlying theme between all three is reducing friction in communication and advancing freer collaboration between colleagues. As part of this work, we’ve identified 10 Social Media Principles to guide organizations when creating or altering their ... http://www.moduscooperandi.com/index.php/2008/12/13/modus-cooperandis-10-social-media-principles/ We’ve been busy. In case you missed it, Corey Ladas’ Scrum-ban white paper, the same paper delivered at Agile 2008, is now available for download. Jim Benson hit a follower milestone on everyone’s favorite microblogging app. Follow him on Twitter @ourfounder. He tweets about interesting things we're doing here at Modus Cooperandi, ... http://www.moduscooperandi.com/index.php/2008/12/04/modus-cooperandi-has-been-busy/ Corey’s Scum-ban paper has received much notoriety since its delivery at Agile 2008.  You can download a PDF of it from Modus Cooperandi. Download: Corey Ladas’s Scrum-Ban Whitepaper. Technorati Tags: Corey Ladas,Scrum-ban,scrumban,scrum,kanban,Modus Cooperandi http://www.moduscooperandi.com/index.php/2008/11/26/corey-ladas-scrum-ban-white-paper-is-available-for-download/ As Modus Cooperandi closes gets ready to enter its second year, we are preparing to launch a book and two new product offerings. To help with these launches we are happy to announce the addition of Thu An Bui to our team of associates. An’s background in business analysis, law ... http://www.moduscooperandi.com/index.php/2008/11/20/thu-an-bui-joins-modus-cooperandi/ This post is the first follow-up to Your Voice is Your Brand. The simple answer to the cost of responsiveness is what is the cost of non-responsiveness. Here is a post from … well … me. I was really really annoyed at my Clearwire service and the ... http://www.moduscooperandi.com/index.php/2008/10/27/the-cost-of-response/ Businesses want to be in the social media world.  They see the value.  They understand that their customers are talking about them, about their products, about their market.  My clients also know that customers are talking about themselves: their dreams, hopes and desires. All searchable.  All interpretable.  All right ... http://www.moduscooperandi.com/index.php/2008/10/27/your-voice-is-your-brand-introduction/ Karl Scotland has started amassing a great list of Kanban resources.  Take a look and help him with more links! http://www.moduscooperandi.com/index.php/2008/10/26/kanban-resources/ Years back, when I was championing Scrum at Microsoft, I was mortified by the idea of being pigeonholed as "the Scrum guy," not least because that might give people the wrong idea about my endorsement.  What I was really trying to say was, as always, about conceptual frames.  I was ... http://www.moduscooperandi.com/index.php/2008/10/22/evolution-will-lead-you-to-unexpected-places/ Social Media is a buzz word, there's no getting around that.  Some people would like to toss out the lessons of social media, simply because they don't like the buzz word or social media's frivolous image.  This would be highly rash, social media has a vast array of lessons to ... http://www.moduscooperandi.com/index.php/2008/10/20/social-media-is-the-language-of-business/