What to do about half-baked Agile unsupported by a shift in the way of thinking? #Transformation without #change. Agile by numbers. Agile as seen on BigConsultancyTV with no change of #mindset. Agile as a #process. The Agile party in the #IT department and #Waterfall #BAU in the #business. Us and them. #WowNotWoT. - Fall in love with #Change - get #DevOps in the mind not the #tech.
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Time to talk about #EQ and #leadership if we want to last the #AI revolution. Not only #HR's job but that of every #leader to examine who the #team is and what they can do to increase and train their own #empathy, they #emotional knowledge, their ability to care and inspire and more. #HumansAtWork #PeopleNotTech #SoftSkillsAreHard
How To Not Fail At #Agile 94% Of The Time. Why we should stop saying and thinking "transformation"- and how #DevOps is a much better term for the new #WaysOfWork and more importantly the new #WaysOfThinking in #knowledge #organizations who need to do #Agile if they are to use #technology fast and smart enough to delight their #customers.
Curiosity is fundamental for an #Agile, #growth-and-#people-obsessed mindset and the latter is the only way forward in the #knowledge economy. To become part of the #Digital elite, both #leadership and #developers (as well as anyone else at all, really!) need to want to create a new #Cultural paradigm and mould the #FutureOfWork through #DevOps in #Technology around happy #teams and #PsychologicalSafety in our fast-moving #VUCA world. This book will help! #PeopleNotTech #ProjectPhoenix #ProjectUnicorn #HumansFirst #HR #IT
How can anyone be #FitForVUCA in the absence of #ContinousLearning? Why aren't #knowledge #organizations designed with #curiosity at the very core? It's time #L&D became true #LearningAndDevelopment instead of a discreet #HR afterthought and drove the organization if we are to have any hope of #Innovation and #growth.
I think it’s time I admitted I need examples. Examples of “oh stop being fanatical, we must be measured in our approach, there are plenty of situations where the old ways of doing things have their rightful place”. I ask what those are every time I am told I’m being […]
It’s hard to have an obsession with #Agile and write about it every week (Agile, not the obsession) without repeating things. Chiefly because the main message here is a big fat “FFS!”. (And before we go any further I must deplore the demise -please tell me I’m wrong and it’s not […]
One of the key reasons why it takes so very long to see the new ways of work become the norm in today’s world and why some companies will simply not be able to survive in this new VUCA world is “management resistance” – the leaders’ resistance to change and […]
I was reading this interview the other day with PagerDuty’s DevOps Advocate (what a job title, eh?) Julie Gunderson which is utterly spot on in how it addresses culture and DevOps all the way to how it mentions the three capital pieces of reading I keep obsessively sending people to these days […]
We live in times where it feels utterly necessary to be proprietary about ideas and protect them best we can. It’s a symptom of our unwillingness to collaborate and a by-product of the lack of trust and interest in building something collectively. In most places that’s unimportant, but I find […]
It’s no secret that the mechanism behind the way #Agile appeals to some of us and repels others, fascinates me. A PhD in #Agile Anthropology should feature on my retirement bucket list should it exist. For those of you with time on your hands, I’ve compared it to weigh lifting, […]
Doing things from the heart doesn’t come naturally to anyone in a work context. Working on self-improvement even less so. Unless you’re blessed enough to have a vocational career and be an artist or a teacher if you’re a white-collar worker you’re likely to have spent a lot of time […]