We Welcome Change (Maybe)
We dig into Principle #2 of the Agile Manifesto. You will quickly realize that making a change isn’t as easy as you might think.
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High Value Delivery Early w/ Great Communication
Agile Manifesto Deep Dive #2 – Principles #1 and #6 >> Did you know that you could use the Principles of Agile Software Development in your day-to-day routine? It’s not only a “technology thing”… it’s universal!
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Agile Manifesto Deep Dive #1: The Four Core Values
Adherence to the core values needs to be well thought out and appropriately worked into the plan. This post digs into the four core values of Agile software development.
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Learning to Manage Through the “New Normal”
COVID happened… everything’s upended… you’re in charge, what do you do? Where do you start? In this post I give small nuggets of practical guidance to help you guide your team.
WFH = Work/Working from Home
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My Journey to Becoming a Scrum Master
Sailing is the perfect analogy for this story. The wind dictates how you get to your destination. A straight line to your destination is not to be expected. It takes as long as it takes…
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Being Agile Starts with Leadership
A brief introduction. Last week I put out a post on my LinkedIn feed talking about implementing Agile. My post was: “I’m increasingly surprised how #agile is pinned as “the way we grow FAST” with a huge amount of pressure put on the Delivery Team to “just be agile”. Agile starts at the #leadership level and
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Be Patient.
I think Ferris Bueller said it best, “life moves pretty fast, if you don’t slow down once in a while, you could miss it.”
Expectations
Every two years I’m required to re-certify my coaching credentials and this year I attended a few modules that were run by past and present NHL hockey coaches. As each coach was going through their topics, they all started with something like, “This is what we do,” and proceeded to go through how they ran
Tah-day, JUNyah!
Motivation, procrastination, iterative releases, stakeholder and team communication, colored markers and a T-Rex.
Do Your Job
Most of you reading this have a job that you get paid to do that allows you to do things with the money you earn and, if you don’t do that job, you don’t get paid, you don’t have money and you can’t do things. Now, before you throw your copy of Atlas Shrugged at me…