We talk about value in the agile world all of the time, however, what we think is valuable and what has been provided to me to deliver value can be much different. I tell teams I work with that we need to manage reality or it will manage you. Telling…

Recently I was reflecting on my ‘agile’ journey and as a coach, I’ve noticed that what I focused on before I became a full-time coach was on working on finding ‘things’ that worked, be it UX Design sessions to provide input to get teams going quickly, User Story Mapping to…

MVP is the most over-used and abused mindset that agile is promoting, not because it’s not a good idea, but because few organizations are set up in a way to support working this way. Two fundamental issues face most organizations who want to be agile: …

Change is easy, said no one ever. Change is hard because we all have an established belief structure or perseverance that shapes and molds how we think about what we do, how we do it, and when we do it. Belief structures are important because they provide the platform of…

On a recent thread, I had started on Linked In, the conversation turned to whether or not organizations should expect to see a reduction in the cost of their development when they ‘go agile’. To be clear, Agile frameworks and Agile delivery aren’t about reducing the cost of your development…

This post on Linked In garnered over 6,000 views in just over a week's time and resulted in some great conversation, so I thought I’d re-post here. …

One of the most important decisions you make as you reshape your organization to support agility is establishing what we commonly call Product teams and it’s one of the least understood. Some organizations I have coached Products were defined more along the lines of enhancements to something that already existed…

A Trust-based Approach to Adopting Agility These are the three pillars that I believe are the foundation to creating a successful Agile organization. So much so that I’ve created an approach called TAP2 Change. Each pillar supports the other and without developing all three pillars your ability to become an…

Why is working software one of the primary principles of Agile? Because when we deliver something that was asked for we may or may not have gotten it right. I know from my experiences the vision that someone has in their mind about how something should work doesn’t always align…