For just a small investment of $13.99, you can have your very own facilitation starter kit! It has post-its! It has Sharpies! It has stickers! It has everything you need for your next collaborative, engaging and productive conversation with the Team, your users and the customers. For just $13.99 you ...
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In the 1996, I attended the Amphibious Warfare School with about 300 other Marine officers to complete a one-year program to prepare us for the next level of our careers. One of the most valuable elements of that experience was the study group. Led by an instructor, our small group ...
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One of the many important skills for any Agile leader to master is the ability to facilitate a group's discussion. When the issue before the group is familiar, an Agile leader does not need to take an overly active part facilitating the group. However, when the issue is unfamiliar, or requires participants ...
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Pivot is one of those words that some Agile people like to throw around to sound hip and cool, but often use incorrectly. I have observed in many conversations where people use the word "pivot", they tend to mean any type of course correction in product strategy (hey...I've been guilty of ...
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Ever wonder why some Agile practitioners regularly butt heads with more traditionally minded managers? Have you ever spent significant one-on-one time with a Product Owner (or a Team member or a Stakeholder) to answer all their questions about why and how Scrum works and they still just do not "get it?" Have ...
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Did you know that in addition to the Agile Manifesto that the authors listed their twelve principles of Agile software? Based upon my very unscientific survey of recent CSM students, only about 2,"Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility." % to 3,"Continuous attention ...
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While the ideas written in the Agile Manifesto have been inspiring and durable, the actual uptake and introduction of these new ways of working within teams and organizations has not been long-lasting. It seems like what was radical and groundbreaking in February 2001 now feels commonplace, trite or even old ...
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Champion: A person who fights or argues for a cause or on behalf of someone else. Catalyst: A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change. Capacitor: A device used to store an electric charge. Coach: A tutor who gives private or specialized teaching. In our first article, we ...
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Agile Coaches (CSP-SM) are really busy people! There is no way one person can do all these activities on this list each week nor would it make sense to do so, but an effective Agile Coach would be working on most these jobs every six months or so. Rome was not ...
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I recently attended and spoke at the inaugural internal Agile conference by DBS Bank in Singapore, which to my surprise opened with comments by the CEO Piyush Gupta. The term “comments’’ fails to describe Piyush’s exceptional articulation of how Agile connects to the bank’s strategy. He covered three major topics ...
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