(Reposted from the LinkedIn “The Future Is Agile” Newsletter) On paper, Agile teams are best suited for what we all have to face now. If not already remote or distributed, then most prepared to become so without too much faff and fuss. Added to that, existing Agile ceremonies are oftentimes […]
Uncategorised
12 posts
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 […]
How do you write about a new baby? It’s perhaps why birth announcements are so dreary, there’s no way to make them extraordinary enough to do the enormity of the event any justice. Much as I enjoy speaking about my awesome human one, this is about PeopleNotTech’s digital one. www.psychologicalsafety.works went live […]
Leveraging Strong Agile Teams – Are You Being Heard? People Not Tech – Who We Are and Why Psychological Safety PS Is Hard, Let’s Try The OKR’s Instead Psychological Safety First Psychological Safety For Leaders – Practical Advice For The Management Team Lead a.k.a The CEO1 Psychological Safety – What […]
Technology changed everything and Agile is arguably one of the fastest ways to access technology so it is placed right in the middle of that change which is why it elicits strong responses from both converts and persistent laggards holding on to a hope that it will "go away".
he Agile manifesto says it clearly: it's all about the people not the process. Despite that, most people that come near it will try to rely on process and overcomplicate the procedure and the terminology because keeping it fundamentally simple is a lot more complicated than it looks and requires a degree of emotional intelligence many people were not called to exercise in their work lives.