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Jim Benson

A Philosophy of Conversation

A collaboration conversation with Jurgen Appelo and J.B. Rainsberger.

2 min readOct 11, 2022

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A Philosophy of Conversation

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Jim Benson

Comments are not Feedback

Constructive Criticism for Constructive Criticism

4 min readOct 4, 2022

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Comments are not Feedback

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Jim Benson

Collaboration Without Dogma

Working Together to be Free of Overcontrol

5 min readOct 3, 2022

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Collaboration Without Dogma

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Jim Benson

You Need Perspective to Build a System

Your Team Might Not Be Enough.

3 min readJun 15, 2022

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You Need Perspective to Build a System

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Jim Benson

It is a beautiful Friday, birds chirping, sun out, window open at 6:30 am.

This paragraph from the book is why I keep doing this. We see such flaming examples of anti-collaboration, misinformation, and poor…

2 min readJun 10, 2022

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It is a beautiful Friday, birds chirping, sun out, window open at 6:30 am.

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Jim Benson

You Create Your Own Bugs By Being Willfully Under-informed

Every day, your team goes to work and creates defects. You can call them mistakes, bugs, technical debt, rework, or any other glossy…

3 min readJun 9, 2022

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The Pretask Plan in Construction Can Be Applied to Software Development

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Jim Benson
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Whats Your Modus?

Death to Dependencies

We hurt ourselves, every day. We divide into teams, the teams become silos, the silos become overloaded, the overload makes us double-down…

2 min readApr 6, 2022

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Death to Dependencies

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Jim Benson
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Whats Your Modus?

PDSA as a Lean Agile Lens

This is part 5 of a series of 5 posts, see the mother post here.

4 min readDec 10, 2020

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PDSA as a Lean Agile Lens

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Jim Benson
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Whats Your Modus?

Flow as a Lean Agile Lens

Getting work to work

4 min readNov 25, 2020

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Flow as a Lean Agile Lens

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Jim Benson
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Whats Your Modus?

Respect as a Lean Agile Lens

Understanding each other as professionals

4 min readNov 23, 2020

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Respect as a Lean Agile Lens

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Jim Benson

Jim Benson

I have always respected thoughtful action. I help companies find the best ways of working.| Bestselling inventor and author of Personal Kanban with @sprezzatura

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