When you dream of working at a company more suited to you—to your beliefs, your style, your…self—what do you imagine? And what are the current company norms you encounter that send you into that daydream? I help Change Agents of all sorts—CEOs, CTOs, visionary directors and both internal and external Read more…
aka: Don’t Cripple your Portfolio Agility The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) provides a very powerful portfolio model that allows companies to articulate, steer, and capture the benefits of technology investments. Like the rest of SAFe, however, there is a lot of content and it is very difficult to understand which Read more…
Deadlines or due dates are a part of business (and all) life. Some dates are critical, like events where we have 500 customers joining us for a webinar, or dates where the business can incur significant liability or penalty. It’s important to know and share those dates. Arbitrary deadline setting Read more…
I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of agility, and why companies would even bother with it in the first place. Too often these days, I see agility becoming its own purpose, exposed by language of “We need to be more agile!” or “that’s not agile” or “Do X Read more…