I entered college as a music major and played drums professionally for many years and though I opted to switch majors to business (gotta eat right?) I learned some things that actually apply to what we are seeing in Agile today. As a percussionist, I was part of the rhythm…

As an Agile coach, I’ve identified four core organizational personas that we face in our transformation efforts: 1. Domainers — They have deep domain knowledge which provides them with influence in the organization. They can be supporters or resisters of the transformation. …

If you have never run a small business, then you are not likely to understand the risk you take every time you decide to invest in something. Make a mistake, and you could materially damage your company’s future. These are very real considerations when you run a business. There is…

A few years ago, I was brought in to be an agile leadership coach and during my time there I was responsible for coaching the Director of Architecture who after meeting me a few times, looked at me and said, ‘as long as I’m sitting in this chair and in…

Years ago I had a Sr VP of Product ask me why he had to pay for defects, and why didn’t the teams deliver high quality in the first place. This is I think a common thought among many business leaders. The answer I provided him was that Product Management…

Every business survives by ensuring they are investing in the right things to deliver value to its organization. Capital finance has been the way that businesses historically manage assessing large business investments. …

Probably the biggest challenge that Agile has faced over the past 20 years is that it works in smaller settings where the environment for the team is isolated and has more control over how they work, as they aren’t plugged into the broader controls of the organization, such as the…

Given the way that we manage technology projects, I doubt it very much. Companies invest upwards of a billion dollars or more annually in technology and yet many have no idea what the work is let alone if it is aligned with strategic drivers for the business. And whether you…

So, here’s the thing, how we manage our businesses has changed so fundamentally, that it’s often hard to understand and even if there are companies letting go of their agile support functions, they are more agile today than when they started and once an organization moves towards agile, even if…