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Organization Behavior

The organization is a social unit that behaves both rationally and irrationally. The key to either is that leadership, motivation, and behavior are not a one-size-fits-all solution. The organization reward: positive inertia, excellence, flexibility, and resilience.

Agile, Lean, Two-Face, Agile Does Not Scale

Lean trumps Agile

Transformation failure is on leadership. Change principles live or die on leadership connecting vision to value. Agile does not scale without …

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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.

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Fast Start, conversation, coffee

Fast Start — Between Work and Well-Being

Well-being is important in our quality of life. In “A Missing Link Between Work and Well-Being”, Daniel Goleman shows presents a link to work’s quantity of life.

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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.

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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.

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Fast Start, Open-Plan Offices Make the Workplace More Toxic, blog , Toby Elwin

Fast Start — More Toxic Workplace

Fast start conversation: Open-plan office space. All the rage. Well, this office space plan may cause a genuine type rage far …

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Forgetting Curve, Ebbinhaus, learn, train, Star Wars, Luke, Rey

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 …

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Scrum Master

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 …

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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 …

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podcast, agile, user experience, Donald Fagen

Podcasts for modern design

The bright side of a one- to two-hour commute: I now bundle a set of podcasts on modern design to my commute …

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Agile example, Scrum design, Toby Elwin, Lord Business

An Agile example of Scrum by design

From startups to corporate leviathans, the business directive to be more Agile tends to ring hollow. Scrum is the most popular …

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Being Agile by the book

Our digital world demands ‘just in time’ connection, transparency, and community engagement. In an agile environment, classic project mindset and process …

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