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ScrumMasters and Managers
Recent discussions with my colleagues have got me thinking precisely about the role of ScrumMasters in organizations. When I first started coaching teams to adopt Scrum I would argue that the...
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Enterprise Lean Startup: Part I – Making It Safe to Experiment
I must give credit to the vibrant Lean Startup community, as it has articulated and grown awareness around some powerful techniques that they have been using to help new businesses identify and match...
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Lessons in Agile Development from a Wooden Train Set
I should be working on continuing my posts about Lean Startup and the Enterprise, but Winter Storm Nemo has had me pretty close to home for this weekend and given me the opportunity to spend a lot of...
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Enterprise Lean Startup: Lessons Learned from Entrepreneurs
Thanks to the local user group, Agile New England, for the opportunity to speak there last month. It was a great opportunity to build on my introductory presentation about Enterprise Lean Startup. I...
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Enterprise Lean Startup: Part II – Measures for Learning
One of the key differences between traditional agile approaches and Lean Startup practices is that agile places the highest level of value on working product, whereas Lean Startup will prioritize...
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Agile & Lean Startup: What’s the Most Dangerous Assumption?
Last month, I had the privilege to speak at the NY Intrapraneur Meetup group. If you are in the New York City area, and even remotely interested in lean startup and agile, I would strongly recommend...
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Trusted Advisors and Order Takers
I remember several years ago when a colleague of mine – let’s just call him Jorge – was hunting for real estate. He shared with me a very curious email from his realtor. The note was responding to...
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Organizational Pain Killers
In any organization, managers and leaders must deal with issues. Conflicts arise, schedules slip, and other unplanned events inevitably occur. This is to be expected, and most managers leap into the...
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Planning and Flexibility
Responding to Change over Following a Plan If you read the Agile Manifesto, it is right there as the 4th, and final value of Agile Software Development. Normally when I think about this value, or...
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Seeking Consensus, Not Perfection
“Tell me, I’ll forgetShow me, I’ll rememberInvolve me, I’ll understand”- Confucius When I first started my career as a software developer, I always thought that the truly tough problems were the...
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Agile Coaching Tip: Policies vs. Judgment
It started out simple enough, a colleague of mine posted a query to our internal forum about guidelines for sharing certain types of content. At first, I thought nothing of the request, it was just...
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Agile Coaching Tip: Robust vs. Resilient Plans
Recent experiences with agile coaching and reading has brought me to a concept of resiliency, which I have found to contain fascinating implications for modern product development and project...
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