First sabbatical post with a change in location: Spain. This sabbatical offers time to reflect, upskill, and discover.
Buyer persona approach with an organization development twist
A buyer persona is a commonly used approach that helps designers understand customer motivation and behavior. With a buyer persona in …
Human capital risk: leverage data for strategic investment
Strategic acquisitions are human capital investments. Conventional measures often fall short to forecast an individual’s or team’s correlation to predict future …
Three ways to remember how to measure
So much corporate money investment to learn. Too little investment in ways to remember. When we add cost of training, such …
Constant change, times five
Change is not a formula or recipe or one-time check list. Multiply effort to understand change times five for better change.
Lean trumps Agile
Transformation failure is on leadership. Change principles live or die on leadership connecting vision to value. Agile does not scale without …
SAFe journey, a vision of new hope
Let’s cut to the point: Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) offers a great approach to large companies that want to embrace Agile; …
Agile icebreaker
This Agile icebreaker uncovers work environment change. This exercise for training and workshops takes focus away from templates and certifications, that rarely matter, and shines a light onto actual adoption.
Agile without value
Companies continue to fail Agile. Culture without practice is Agile without value. Mindset relies on values guided by principles, not templates or training.
Agile change management needs management change
Agile at scale requires executives’ live, breath, and champion Agile values and principles. This Agile change management plan guides true, Agile change.
Impact assessment, analysis template revised
More product-driven organizations drive projects at the local business unit, division, or product level. Even these silo projects gain benefits with an impact assessment.
Belief to build, the skeptic’s dilemma
Time and time again, teams are put together and asked to build a solution. The skeptics on these teams, those that …
The skeptic builder makes a mess
Start with belief in why you build something or before you build. A skeptic without belief usually delivers disappointment. Sadly, leaders …
Forget what you learned
That training program you endured was a waste of time. Forget what you learned. Just take a day and you already …
Scrum without Lean HR: #fail
Executives expect Agile results, but too few executives and managers realize the organization change necessary to support Agile results. Agile without …
Fast Start — Failure demand
Fast start conversation: Demand for time comes from every angle. Critical evaluation looks at Failure Demand as a resource expectation. At …
Scrum Master as Scrum Maester, a game of thrones
A listen to the Scrum Guide update video with Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland, and David West makes a case that I did …
Stand up to daily scrum
Successful Agile development is principles over practice. Many an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and Agile roles assure people the difference between …