Full Stack Poker is a game I came up with to help further the dialogue between various stake holders who are tasked with getting the right skills into teams responsible for delivering value. I am still in the process of play testing the game with clients, practitioners, etc but early results are good, its a […]
OK, so now that we want to have a dialogue with others around Agile as a Mindset, how do we go about having that dialogue? What posture do we take? when do we have the dialogue and when do we back off? Who do we have the discussion with? How do we start? What kind […]
Ok. In my last post, I picked on various Agile Methodologies. It hurt to do it, and I may have offended a few of you. An important point, my issue is not with these Agile Methodologies. It’s with the idea that we can describe Agile as a methodology. That’s why I included the awesome Agile […]
What do we mean when we say “we are Agile” (Don’t forget to capitalize the A)? When you say Agile are you talking about the same thing I am? Do we agree when we say we are done our Agile Transformation? No, we don’t. My definition of what it means for an team/department/organization/enterprise to be […]
What do we mean when we say “we are Agile” (Don’t forget to capitalize the A)? When you say Agile are you talking about the same thing I am? Do we agree when we say we are now “done” our Agile Transformation? No we don’t. My definition of what it means for a team/department/organization/enterprise to […]
Agile transitions start and stop at the leadership level. Nothing will accelerate a shift in organizational thinking faster than when “official” leaders behave in a way that represents the new mindset. A big part of the mindset is that the primary job of leadership is to accelerate the growth of more leaders. When leaders put […]
Coming up with an approach that get’s you and your enterprise organized and moving along the Agile journey is challenging to say the least. It was the entire topic of my last book. This section will represent what I have learnt on the topic since I wrote it. The goal will be to prepare Agile […]
Agile is a way of structuring your people so that they can self-organize more effectively, improve how they talk to customers, bolster collaboration, and respond to change faster. Agile is also a lot more than that, but most Agile Transition Initiatives could do a lot worse than by starting and stopping with one simple premise. […]
Before getting started on any discussion of agile transition, its important to provide a description of what the authors mean by this thing called Agile. I’ve encountered many people that want a standard agile description, the reality is that there is no such thing, and very little value in creating one. That being said there […]
It’s long overdue, but I am finally getting started in writing my next book on Agile transition. It’s been about 5 years since I wrote my last book on this topic of Agile transition, titled The Lean Change Method. The book was largely meant to help solidify my thoughts around how to structure Agile transition […]
