Change to a Culture of Wrong
Fail to succeed. Stretch to fail. But stop failing, and just do it wrong. A culture of wrong can grow and change.
When Processes Replace Interactions
What happens when your processes interfere with interactions? Not much, and that is the problem.
Whose Job is it Anyway?
Without a Product Owner, whose job is it to maintain the backlog or groom stories?
Why do Daily Scrums Suck?
Have you replaced your weekly status update with a daily status update and called it “Agile”? You are not alone, and that sucks. Many companies working to transform into an Agile organization struggle with this most fundamental shift in culture. Most often the culture of an organization is very static and requires huge effort to…
Illusion of Control – You never had it
I recently had a conversation with a functional manager that was concerned with the transition of her organization to agile. It wasn’t any tool or process or the manifesto but the perceived lack of control. She wanted to know how to maintain the illusion of control. “How can I manage my team when they get…
Dune Leadership Lessons : Team First
I have been re-reading Frank Herbert’s Dune anthology and I remembered one of the very first lessons I received in leadership: “Put the people you lead first. Everything else will take care of itself.”