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Are We Forgetting About Succeeding?

July 26th, 2010 Jason No comments

I had a great conversation with a colleague the other day about how “agile ain’t what it used to be” (fodder for another post)  and recently it seems like I spend a great deal of time either replying to people or having conversations about the proper use of “methodology or practice X“.
Technically I’m on vacation and since [...]

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Focus on Getting to the Goal as a Team over Focusing on “Doing Agile”

June 14th, 2010 Jason No comments

For those who are familiar with some of my other posts, I seem to follow a similar pattern when talking about Agile.  Based on using Agile as the tool to help implement the Rockefeller Habits when I was working at Q4, I’ve always thought that the focus and goal is always to help an organization [...]

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Using an Open Space to Teach and Get Results

June 8th, 2010 Jason No comments

The organization I’m currently working with is suffering from ‘we have no time’ disorder.  Demand is exceeding capability which is leaving little time for ‘non-contextual’ learning for the lack of a better phrase.
While one team has been making some great strides with root cause analysis, they have been struggling to turn those learnings into actions [...]