I’ve been learning more about strengthening leadership teams by working with not-for-profit boards of directors (including the one I’m on). What have you experienced with regard to volunteer teams? Join the conversation on LinkedIn. When a non-profit board of directors struggles to be effective, the problem can seem particularly intractable Read more…
I spend a lot of time working with executive leadership who are trying to start, or restart their lean portfolio management approaches. A big part of this conversation tends to be “how do we use epics? How SHOULD we use epics?” and I find myself describing a set of usage Read more…
Details, purpose, attendees and agendas vary rather widely in BRP. That’s because Big Room Planning (BRP) is a name used to describe several types of collaborative, large group working sessions. These sessions often include some sort of mid-range or quarterly planning, and the steering and alignment creation needed for such planning.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the very practical ways that leaders at all levels can build an amazing organizational culture through practice. Last week I had the great fun of discussing some of those ideas in a virtual fireside chat with Bob Galen. The video recording of that Read more…
I recently posted an article describing the evolution of a single platform across the various investment horizons. After posting that, I found myself in conversations with a client around how this view maps to the work that’s being done inside the portfolio, and I realized there was an assumption that Read more…
When you’ve been asked to take on an agile product management role as part of a business agility transformation leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework®, you will need information on two topics: great product management and how the product manager role operates in SAFe®. As a product manager, you are responsible Read more…
Articulation of success criteria is pervasive in every agile approach, at every level of value creation. In many ways, the core behavior of agility is defining what success looks like for a activity, acting to make that true, and validating that it remains true and continues meeting the customer needs. Read more…
I see confusion in how the various solution horizons apply in SAFe’s “Guiding investments by horizon” guard rail, so I thought I’d tell a story of how I see it play out in practice using a large scale enterprise platform as the backdrop. This framing is consistent with the original Read more…
“I won’t push any of you, see? I didn’t give you anything, and you don’t owe me anything. Your power is yours; it has always been there. I’m just going to help you reach it. What you do with it, from there on, is up to you” – Shill(from The Read more…