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…
Powerful ways to build amazing teams (4 of 5)
Juggling is an illusion. … In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. … It is actually task switching. —…
Powerful ways to build amazing teams (3 of 5)
Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. –US Navy SEALs Your team is trying to go too fast. There, I said it. Deal with it.…
Agile For All’s Quote of the Week (February 3, 2021)
One of the most important things in life is to differentiate between what we can change and what we can’t. What we have influence over…
2020 Retrospective: Top 3 Things That Made It Amazing
2020 will go down as the year that started the COVID-19 pandemic. There are many memes about 2020, but I think Match.com may have won…
Powerful ways to build amazing teams (2 of 5)
A team’s success with Scrum depends on five values: commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect. — https://www.scrumalliance.org/about-scrum/values Is it possible five simple words will lead…
Agile For All’s Quote of the Week (January 27, 2021)
Scrum exposes your problems. Great teams fix their problems, mediocre teams say they can’t do anything about their problems. One improves, the other stays stuck…
Powerful ways to build amazing teams (1 of 5)
team building: the action or process of causing a group of people to work together effectively as a team, especially by means of activities and…
The New Direction of Agile For All
Like all of you, I’m glad 2020 is in the rearview mirror! I’m very hopeful that 2021 will be far better overall than 2020. There…
Five Fixes for “It’s not my job!” Syndrome
Have you ever heard someone say, “It’s not my job!” How did that make you feel? A lot of you must feel strongly about this…
Agile For All’s Quote of the Week (January 20, 2021)
The Daily Scrum isn’t about status. It is about alignment. I’d prefer to call it the Daily Alignment to make that point crystal clear. —…
Try this to improve team performance
Do you know a team that is struggling? Maybe your team? So often, leaders focus on trying to help the team improve performance without actually…
End of Sprint 2 of My Writing Experiment (Why Tools are Still Important)
My two-week trial of Ulysses ends tomorrow. I already know what I’ll be doing! Against all odds, Ulysses has successfully ingrained itself into my workflow.…
The first step when managing dependencies
What do you do when the project you are working on has a lot of dependencies? I just spent some time looking for advice on…