Lead from the Heart
I lead from the heart, not from the brain. Which according to a Fastcompany article, which includes some great research conducted by the Institute of HeartMath,…
Agile Can Be Difficult to Adopt – 5 Things to Consider
Agile has been all the rage in software development for many years now. Its popularity exists mostly among smaller teams that iterate quickly and release…
Culture is What People Care About
Are you a consultant, agile coach, or employee of a company? Lol. That’s all of you! Here’s the hard truth: You are not as effective as…
Office Hours and Conformity? – No. Delivery is King!
During one of my CSM classes, I was discussing with a student that her company still has office hours and they are “required” to be…
Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (April 14, 2021)
You don’t “manage people.” You should be (leading) people and (managing) the work. Or said better, love on people and unblock them. — Agile Peter…
Leadership and Data – A Filtered Experience
“As organizations (and societies) grow larger and more complex, the people at the top (whether managers or analysts) depend less and less on firsthand experience, more…
Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (April 7, 2021)
Sprint Planning Meetings for 2-week sprints should take 4 hours or less. However, the first one you ever do will be the worst 10-12 hours…
Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (March 31, 2021)
Be exceptionally useful. I understand specialization, but not at the cost of usefulness. The most successful people I know are exceptionally useful in a multitude…
Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (March 24, 2021)
Saying “Failing fast is ok” is not helping. People simply don’t want to fail. Instead, say “Learning fast is ok” and see how often people…
Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (March 17, 2021)
People who hustle are always to be respected. Whether it’s posted on social or not. Cheers to the quiet hustlers and the builders in the…
Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (March 10, 2021)
<Sarcasm mode on!> When faced with two different ways to implement something, good programmers will ask themselves “what would the customer want?” Then they will…
Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (March 3, 2021)
One of the hardest things to do in life is say “no.” To invitations, requests, and stuff everyone else is doing. Even harder is saying…
Great Training Gives Life Changing Results
The purpose of adult education is to help them learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.” -Carl Rogers…
Your team isn’t diverse? You should panic. Right now!
We are at our most innovative when we exchange ideas with people from diverse backgrounds—even those with whom we vehemently disagree.” — Survival of the…
Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (February 24, 2021)
When you change the way you think about product development you will change the way you want to do product development. Remember to focus on…
Destroying things is easy so dare to do better
It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it. — Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method (page 416) by Gerald…
Two Popular Time Management Techniques that will Change Your Life!
When was the last time you felt like you had everything completely under control? If you are like most people who attend my classes, you…
Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (February 17, 2021)
Knowledge, particularly self-knowledge, is freedom. Why is this so? When you know yourself, you can work and live 100% within your wheelhouse in ALL aspects…
Powerful ways to build amazing teams (5 of 5)
Optimal Development Team size is small enough to remain nimble and large enough to complete significant work within a Sprint. Fewer than three Development Team…
Agile For Alls’s Helpful Quote of the Week (February 10, 2021)
Many people think Scrum is about getting things done faster. It isn’t. You get the right things done in the right order and you leave…