Agile and Scrum training the Agile For All way
Take a moment to consider the last time you were in any sort of training environment. Were the tables set up “classroom style” so everyone…
Life Change Starts with Clarity
There are moments where each one of us have wished for significant life change – this could be related to our current circumstances, our jobs,…
The Value of Planning Together
If you’ve taken part in any of our Scrum classes, then you know we highly value the power of face-to-face communication. The emergent power of…
Viktor Frankl’s Meaning Triangle for Organizations
Viktor Frankl was an incredible human being, having survived the Holocaust and establishing logotherapy, a type of psychotherapy. His book, Man’s Search for Meaning, details…
3 Requirements for Creating a Culture of Leadership & Innovation
Innovation begins with the heart… a heart of leadership The Hay Group, a global management consulting firm, released their findings that identify which organizations have the…
Splitting Stories in Chinese (or, 用户故事切分招数)
Thanks to Bob Jiang for the translation (with feedback from Evelyn Tian and Daniel Teng). This poster is also available in English, French, German, Russian,…
Running Agile at Home
Agile is merely a philosophy of how to change the way we think about delivering value. Powerful ideas have grown from the original philosophy, namely…
On 2015 and Beyond!
As we look at Agile in 2015, there is a lot of excitement, a lot of opportunity, and a lot of fun ahead of us.…
Why You’ll Want to Attend Humanizing Work 2015
Every year, we put on a conference just for agile practitioners who’ve been in one of our classes. Check out this 90 second video to…
Agile Homeschool Update
Last year, I wrote about how we use an agile approach for homeschool. Since then, we’ve refined our approach. This school year, we updated our…
Looking Back at the Past Two Years
I want to start this post by thanking Eric Englemann (yes, that is him above!), the CEO of one of our awesome clients, Geonetric. Almost…
Cynefin and Story Splitting
As I was preparing for my Agile Denver session on Unscaling, which leaned heavily on the Cynefin Framework, I reread Liz Keogh’s excellent post, “Cynefin…
Agile Denver Session Notes: Unscaling
Update: For our latest thinking on scaling and organizational agility see Scaling: Principles not Practices. For those who attended last night’s Agile Denver meetup, here are…
Scrum Basics: When Should We Schedule Sprint Transitions?
We’re often asked which day or days are best for scheduling the Sprint Planning, Review, and Retrospective meetings.
MHA 2014 Session Notes: Models for Support
For those who attended my Mile High Agile 2014 session, Models for Support, here are the photos of the flip charts (with a little explanatory…
Taking Agile Beyond Software
Two years ago, when Bob and I merged our companies into today’s Agile For All, we wrote out a vision statement for the company that…
The Agile For All Christmas Party & Four Charities We’re Fired Up About This Christmas
In November, we asked our wives, Dawn Lawrence and Carol Hartman (whom many of you met at the conference), to plan a unique company Christmas…
3 Ways to Handle End-of-the-Year Holidays on Your Agile Team
The period from mid-December to early-January can be disruptive for an agile team. You’re used to working on a regular cadence, maybe in 2-week iterations.…
Humanizing Work 2013 Conference Recap
Last month’s Humanizing Work Conference was organized around one big hypothesis: that it was possible to do to a conference what we’d done to our…
Focusing on the Right Things in Your Daily Scrum
“Yesterday, I was in Sprint Planning…” I hear it once, and I’m suspicious. By the time the third team member says this, it’s clear the…