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Shared Leadership and Alignment

Shared Leadership and Alignment

“Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for failure of new ventures.” - Peter Drucker. Drucker uses the keywords innovation and Management to describe the core...

Three Scaling Agile Maxims

Three Scaling Agile Maxims

My Three Scaling Agile Maxims Nail it before you scale it. Stitch it to flip it. Fake it, and you won’t make it. Here's why? Nail it before you scale it. Do you know what good looks like? What will be fit for your organization’s purpose?  Don’t get impatient and try...

Comparing Agile Scaling Frameworks

Comparing Agile Scaling Frameworks

Scaling Agile Framework is relevant when multiple teams must continuously integrate their work efforts to deliver customer value. The core challenge all frameworks must address is how they expose, manage, and resolve dependencies. The dependency management mechanisms...

Coaching Tenets

Coaching Tenets

Situational awareness can enable Agile leaders to empower others to problem-solve  If the situation is about:- a knowledge gap, then teach;- a skill gap, then mentor;- an options gap, then consult;- a personal growth gap, then coach. I don’t always coach, but when I...

The Agile Manifesto Principles Explained

The Agile Manifesto Principles Explained

I started my agile journey twenty years ago. At the time, I was a Java programmer and a UML modeler, and I lucked into working in an XP team. Joining an experienced XP team was uncomfortable at first. The practices were very different from what I was used to. Kent...

Technology Adoption Curve and the Chasm

Technology Adoption Curve and the Chasm

Summary of takeaways from Geoffery Moore’s book, Crossing the chasm. Since its first publication in 1991, it has been a canon for marketing and sales decision-making in product management.The groups in the technology adoption cycle represent a unique psychographic...

In Defense of Immutability of the Scrum framework

In Defense of Immutability of the Scrum framework

Imagine a stencil. It leaves the insides open to your implementation. You can place your stencil on paper, color the interiors, make intricate patterns, or trace along the boundary. The outcome holds the same shape regardless of the fill you choose to put. Similarly,...

The Conflict Escalation Ladder

The Conflict Escalation Ladder

Disagreements are not conflicts. Disagreements are a healthy part of a collaborative dynamic, but conflicts are not. The critical outcome is that people strengthen their relationships as they work through disagreements, whereas the result of the conflict is that...

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