The Three Jobs of Agile Management (Part 4)
Tip 4 – Use the Agile Management Canvas as a guide to Agile adoption or transformation. After explaining the basics of the model (three jobs, two…
Author: Peter Green
Peter Green led a grass roots Agile transformation at Adobe from 2005 to 2015, starting with his own team, Adobe Audition. His influence includes the teams behind such software flagships as Photoshop, Acrobat, Flash, Dreamweaver and Premiere Pro, as well as dozens of internal IT and platform technology teams and groups like marketing and globalization. His work was a major factor enabling Adobe product teams to make critical business transition from perpetual desktop products to the subscription-based service, Creative Cloud. His hands-on Scrum and Agile training and coaching at all levels of the organization including executives, helped lay the groundwork to shift teams from two-year product cycles to frequent delivery of high-quality software and services. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST), instructional designer, coach, facilitator, and a popular speaker at Tech, Agile, and Scrum conferences.
The Three Jobs of Agile Management (Part 3)
Tip 3 – use the full Agile Management Canvas to see the larger system of management when trying to address challenges. If we take the…
The Three Jobs of Agile Management (Part 2)
Tip 2: Use the jobs and the two sides to identify areas that may be out of balance in your organization. As an example, I’ll…
The Three Jobs of Agile Management (Part 1)
Tip 1: Use the three jobs to clarify responsibilities in the organization. For example, the job of Creating Clarity has an overlap between the role…
The Three Things Managers Need To Do in an Agile Organization
Agile enthusiasts often say, “Hey, if we’re Agile, we don’t need managers because our team is self-organizing.” That may be true in a very limited…
Agile isn’t dead — It’s just spread (beat poet style)
I recently found yet another article (“Agile software development is dead. Deal with it.“) that proclaims the death of Agile. It seems like every month…
Humanizing Work: Self-Organization, Does it Work for Everyone?
I’m going to share an opinion about self-organization that might be a bit controversial.
6 Tips for Building the Right Vision
Hey everybody, it’s Peter Green with Agile for All. All my product owners, my product managers, my entrepreneurs, my CEOs, my chief product folks, this…
Agile Basics: Coordination vs. Collaboration
I’m resisting with all of my might the urge to sing a Vanilla Ice song: Stop, collaborate, and listen. I guess I didn’t resist very…
Beyond Drive: 5 great books about Agile and Motivation
I recently found an interesting tweet from Maren Baermann about motivation.
Leading an Engaged Organization
“Engagement doesn’t really matter in the workforce today” That’s not a real quote. I’ve never heard a leader say that. But something doesn’t add up.
This Cognitive Bias kills our ability to thrive in complexity
Does this sound familiar? I was a Program Manager for over a decade, during which time I must have facilitated dozens of “project post-mortems”, a…
From Predicting and Controlling to Embracing Complexity
Agile Organizations shift from a focus on predicting and controlling work to embracing complexity, using experiments and feedback loops to learn and grow. This post is…
From Shareholder Value to Customer Delight and Shared Purpose
Agile Organizations shift from a focus on short-term profits towards a focus on customer delight and achieving a shared purpose. This issue is the first…
What Do We Mean By Welcoming Complexity?
Subscribe To The Welcoming Complexity Newsletter In this inaugural issue, we explain the newsletter’s title and provide a few thoughts on relevant Agile For All blog…
Turn The Ship Around – A View Into Agile Leadership
Note: This post is adapted from some posts that I originally created on Adobe’s blog while I was an employee there. I recently finished reading former…
Scrum as an agent of culture change
Peter Drucker invented most modern management practices. He was an in-demand coach to hundreds of top leaders in the world’s largest organizations. When he suggested that “culture…
Scrum as an agent of culture change part 2
In part one of this series, we defined culture. We also described why it is both critical and hard to work on. Finally, we left…
Reinventing Organizations Video now with Korean subtitles
Thanks to Hahn Ryu of D.CAMP, our video describing Frederic Laloux’s book Reinventing Organizations and its application for lean and agile adoption is now available…