The Developer, er, the Agile Mindset
Any career in STEM opens the door to a broad application of practical skills, critical thinking, and problem solving. #WhatsYourStory ? Add it to our growing post on LinkedIn.
Kanban – it’s not just lazy Scrum
Me: I’ve fallen in love with Kanban again. My friend: Um, yeah… Who is Kanban, again? From David Anderson, the founder of the Kanban movement: “with Kanban we’re using visualization, a working progress limit (WIP), and a quantitative measurement to stimulate Kaizen (Japanese for “improvements.”) Me: In Kanban, we show all of the work in…
Agile < Lean < Systems Thinking
I’m working with a colleague on a client’s organizational design issues. So I started to refresh my thinking with industry resources and reading. I call it “spring training” (even though as I write this, we are in the dog days of summer in the Sunshine State right now, with a hurricane or two thrown in…
What does cultural agility look like?
To borrow from Oprah, there is one thing I know for sure. Low Trust = More Process. Process kills Autonomy. Autonomy = Innovation Innovation is the life blood of any organization that wants to exist more than 15 years, the average age of a company today. And real innovation requires cultural agility. I recently published…
How the PSM III made me a better agilist
I recently passed Scrum.org’s PSM III* with the 95 required to continue in the trainer process. It was challenging – and it took more than one try. Here’s 500 words on what worked, and why it was worth it.
For all the lonely coaches…3 steps to your coaching kata
Coaching can be lonely. It’s hard. It’s complex. It’s subjective. We take it personally. There’s a 1,000 books and blogs on how to do it right, and yet, no one way to do it right. Nearly ten years ago, my coach, Jesse Fewell called me a ‘Truth Sayer.’ “If you are not on the verge…
Stop! enterprise agile and Scaled Agile are not the same thing
It’s been 15 years since the Agile Manifesto and there is no refuting the consistent evidence that agile works. The Standish Group’s 2011 Chaos Report states that “Agile projects are three times more successful than non-agile projects.” Nearly every technology shop is working within some kind of agile framework, mostly Scrum. However, if you are…
Product Owners: How to start with ‘Why’
I’m going to leave this right here: I think being a Product Owner is the most difficult roles in Scrum, and one of the least supported, which adds to the difficulty. I see so many new Product Owners struggling with the role, I started the Tampa Bay Product Owner Meetup – and if you are…
