Making Time for Agile Transformation
Today I’m planning on painting the living room so I figured I’d get a few things done early in the morning. I still have a bad habit of checking my email first thing in the morning and at the top of my inbox was my personal coach’s Monday morning message. It’s a short post, feel free to check it out but don’t forget to come right back! It’s 8:18am, I can hear the cyclone of activity as my kids are getting ready to leave for school in 10 minutes. As usual,...
Read More2 Things that are Killing Your Transformation
In my last post I referred to a few studies that show only 30% of change initiatives are successful. The US Air Force recently cancelled a 6-year program that cost in excess of $1,000,000,000. One. Billion. Dollars. Seriously. One. Billion. Dollars. So naturally I expect the reaction to range from “what a bunch of idiots” to pundits speculating why this massive program failed with little to no data or insight into the actual problem. Who knows, maybe they were only ‘doing...
Read MoreRecovering from Failing Miserably at Agile 2012
“HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT” were the words sprawled across one of our feedback forms from Shaping Your Agile Adoption Path that Don Gray and I presented at Agile 2012 yesterday. “I can’t remember a time where I scheduled a 3.5 hour session and received less value. These two instructors provided nothing – the participants did ALL the work. The session description should have said that was the approach. This session is a great example of why agile gets a bad name, it...
Read MoreAgile is Just Fine Thank You Very Much
Sorry Bob, I disagree. Agile as a phrase isn’t worn out and doesn’t need to die. The Agile community needs to wake up and start eating it’s own dogfood instead of smoking it’s vapor. The problem isn’t the word ‘Agile’ and sorry Ron, the problem certainly is not that “people don’t do what we said” What kind of elitist attitude is that? The problem is the message coming out of the Agile community isn’t resonating with...
Read MoreUh Oh, the Honeymoon is Over
“Wait a minute, I thought we were Agile? What aren’t things better and why do we have more problems now?” What happens after the honeymoon is over? Going from blank walls and cubes to a lots of stuff on the walls and a nice wide open space and should have made a difference by now shouldn’t it have? There’s a lot of noise on Linked In, Google Groups and twitter (to name a few) that all seem to try and find fault in a person, team, organization or practice because...
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