Agile Culture and Adoption Survival Guide @Agile New England
Here is the latest version of my talk that I will give at Agile New England – minor updates and tweaks since the Agile Tour Toronto version last month.Read More
Agile Culture and Adoption Survival Guide (Presentation)
I am very excited to share some learnings over the last 6 months on culture and transformational leadership. Here is the presentation I am giving tomorrow at Agile Tour Toronto and in Boston (@Agile New England) next month. Enjoy.
How to Help a Large Project
I have seen a recurring pattern in large organizations – there are large-scale projects that span many separate functional groups, departments and geographic locations. These projects often perform poorly and are difficult to manage effectively. In most cases, Agile is not the most valuable approach to get these projects on track.Read More
How to Incubate Transformational Leadership
Jon Stahl had an enlightening talk at Agile 2011 where he walked through his process for incubating transformational leadership to achieve an Agile mindset.
Confused about adoption vs. transformation? Check out ways to make progress with Culture Gaps.Read More
Scrum Alliance Leadership – Acceptance Tests
This post identifies acceptance tests for successful thought leadership within the Scrum Alliance. See also: Models for Success and Concrete Actions (& Participants)
Process: Everyone built a model for an acceptance test and each group voted to select the two most valuable acceptance tests. So there are four acceptance tests in total.Read More
Scrum Alliance Leadership – Models for Success
This post identifies two visions for successful leadership within the Scrum Alliance. See also: Acceptance Tests and Concrete Actions (& Participants).Read More
Scrum Alliance Leadership – Concrete Actions
This post identifies concrete actions. See also: Acceptance Tests and Models for Success.Read More
Scrum Alliance Thought Leadership Workshop
There will be a workshop at Agile 2011 on building ideas for improving thought leadership in the Scrum Alliance.Read More
Exploring Agile Community Challenges through StrategicPlay® with Lego®
Last weekend, a group of local Agilistas got together for BBQ, drink, and to play with Lego. Well, not just play, but StrategicPlay® – with a purpose. And wow, what a result! The outcome was some deep insights into the Agile community that we’d like to share with you.Read More
How to Make Your Culture Work with Agile – Screencast
Here is a video primer of the Schneider Culture Model and how Agile, Software Craftsmanship and Kanban fit in. It is recorded in HD so you may want to use full screen and 720p resolution to see all the slides.
Read More Declaration of Interdependence? Cultural Shotgun
The purpose of this post is to share a cultural analysis of the Declaration of Interdependence (DOI).
For those of you not familiar with it, the DOI could be characterized by re-write of the Agile Manifesto to be more positive and less waterfall-bashing.Read More
Agile – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Slides
I was thrilled when I had a chance to turn my Agile Culture Series and conclusions into a session to run at XPToronto (my local Agile user group). Slides are below.Read More
