Agile: adjective – able to move quickly and easily.
One of the 12 principles behind the Manifesto for Agile Software Develop is: At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. This adjustment of behavior can take many forms: from stopping a practice that is not fruitful to simply doing more or less …
It takes many different mindsets and behaviors to make a team hum. I am appreciating a view of collaborative behaviors developed by David Kantor (as part of his work on Structural Dynamics), and am finding it useful as a way to hold up a mirror to a team that is interested in understanding and improving their communication.
While a team can rollback a code push that didn’t go well, refactor a feature that didn’t hit the mark, the one thing they can never recover is lost time. Use this retrospective technique to expose the thieves of time pestering your team,
We often hear “Lean” and “Agile” together in the same breath. Are they the same? Or different? Lean originates from Lean Manufacturing, the Toyota Production System, aka the Toyota Kata. Lean is a set of principles for achieving quality, speed & customer alignment. (Hmm… hope that sounds familiar and very …
In this podcast episode, we chat with Bill Joiner to explore the challenges of leadership in today’s world. We take a deep dive into the catalyst level of leadership ability. Bill is a sought-after international thought leader and author of Leadership Agility. He focuses on the mind-sets and skill-sets that leaders …
