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…
Agile For Alls’s Quote of the Week – January 13, 2021
I’ve read a lot of books about agile. None of them have said, “Be dumb.” None of them have said, “Be smart.” either, but they…
Results of my First 2021 Writing Sprint
Well, that was easy! I downloaded Ulysses and figured it out enough to create a blog post later in the day. Super easy to use.…
Using Scrum in 2021
I am writing this on January 3, 2021, basically the start of a new year. Like most people, at the beginning of a new year,…
Scrum Guide 2020 – What Changed and How will it Affect Scrum Classes?
How the Scrum Guide 2020 changes effect Scrum Trainers
GRAVITY Book Updated to V4.2!
New updated version to 4.2! - More pictures, links, and helpful tips to grow your online brand and master community!
Market Meditations Podcast with Peter Saddington
Peter Saddington and KoroushAK interview around crypto, startups, and growth!
The History of Management Trends
A full briefing on the history of management trends from 1910 with Taylorism to Agile in 2010! What will the trends be in the next 100 years?