Managing Responses to Change
Change projects have a lousy success record. Various change management studies dating back to 1995 show about a 30% success rate with success being defined as “project was finished on time, budget with...
View ArticleAgile on Your Own Terms
If you asked 10 people what it meant to be “an Agile company”, you’d likely get 10 different answers. Some will tell you that Agile is a set of practices and processes while others will tell you it’s a...
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Who the !@#$% is “THEY”
I’m conducting a communication experiment. Lately I’ve encountered a frustrating pattern of people referring to “THEY” as an impediment to getting work done – efficiently, effectively or otherwise....
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The Power of Happiness
I once worked with a team who had been victimized by a re-org. They were left without a manager, a crime in this organization, and they didn’t know how they fit into the ‘new world’. I worked with this...
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Management Goes First
Sometimes Agile is thought of as a way to fix teams. I like to call this spray-on transformation. That is, management reads an article about how Agile helps teams go faster, while increasing quality...
View ArticleOrganizing Your Organization Around Microservices
In 1968, programmer Melvin Conway stated: “organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.” Basically,...
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Can we talk? Getting back to conversation
Face-to-face communication is the most powerful business tool we will ever have. So why don’t we use it more often? Or more effectively? Or more consciously? For over a decade, I’ve been encouraging...
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How Roles Change With Agile
Scrum has 3 roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Team Member. Scrum specifically says the team needs all the necessary skills to do the work, which is why people are referred to as Team Members....
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Finding the Right Agile Coach
This year at the Toronto Agile Tour I ran a new session about how to hire an Agile Coach. A few months ago I saw an article on Linked In titled something to the effect of “how to pass your Scrum...
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When Agile Isn’t Enough
We’ve sifted through a decade of Version One’s State of Agile Development survey in order to create our Decade of Agile report (that you can get for free here), to see how Agile has evolved over the...
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