Kaizen – The Meaning and Power of Change
TLDR – Kaizen If you think you can make something better (in your personal life, within a team or a collection of systems you work on, a process in your company), do it. What is it? “Kaizen” is made up of […]
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Play Time… What is it Good For?
Try this experiment: Give your teams time and space to play. That’s it. Don’t expect something shippable. Don’t plan to judge their output on the basis of business value. There will be no “right or wrong.” There will be no […]
Six Steps Towards Self Learning Teams and Organizations
One of the 12 principles behind the Manifesto for Agile Software Develop is: At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. This adjustment of behavior can take many forms: from stopping […]
Tools for Project Managers in Transition to Agile
If you are in transition to an Agile environment, I offer a handful of indispensable tools for dealing with such troublesome issues such as Self-Managing Teams and Gold-Owner questions The post Tools for Project Managers in Transition to Agile appeared […]
Do We Really Need a Code of Ethics in Agile Coaching?
Ethics: moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity. — Oxford Dictionary One of my favorite improvements to running conferences (when we used to attend those in person) was adding a code of conduct. It […]
Agile, Lean: What’s the Diff?
We often hear “Lean” and “Agile” together in the same breath. Are they the same? Or different? Lean originates from Lean Manufacturing, the Toyota Production System, aka the Toyota Kata. Lean is a set of principles for achieving quality, speed […]
Catalyst: Leadership Agility with Bill Joiner
In this podcast episode, we chat with Bill Joiner to explore the challenges of leadership in today’s world. We take a deep dive into the catalyst level of leadership ability. Bill is a sought-after international thought leader and author of Leadership […]
Work In Progress: A Case for Limited WIP
TL;DR Limit the WIP by process step Finish what is started When “blocked” instead of picking up something new resolve the bottleneck The end result will be a self-optimizing system of continuous improvement in which value throughput is always increasing. […]
Making Sense in Times of Uncertainty with Dave Snowden & Andrea Tomasin
In this third in a series of podcasts, Dave Snowden and Andrea Tomasini chat with Andy Cleff, Richard Dolman and Colleen Johnson to explore the most crucial leadership challenge of the day: Making Sense in Times of Uncertainty. Dave Snowden […]
Intent Based Leadership with L. David Marquet and Andy Worshek
This is the second in a series of conversations that explored effective leadership from a number of different viewpoints. Panelists were Andy Worshek and L. David Marquet both with Intent-Based Leadership. Expert on leadership, former submarine commander, and author of […]