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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Apple’s technology formula
Too often there is a chasm between the technology design and the user need. Technology alone is not enough. Whether a business area …