My family would go camping up at Turquoise Lake when I was young. My brother and I loved sleeping in the tent, cooking outside, hiking to find wild strawberries, and playing in and around the lake. We would stay for a few days, and just before we left, when all Read more…
What we each practice as conscious behaviors (and habits) shapes the culture of our relationship with ourselves, with our partners, within our organizations, within our country, across countries and throughout our world. I’ll follow this post with others on culture, habit change, and facilitating organizational change, but for today, I’d 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.
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…
I don’t usually say this kind of thing, but it’s kind of bullsh*t that culture change is hard. Get clarity You and your leadership team each own how you behave individually, and how you show up and behave collectively. Your culture is shaped by your repeated behaviors, what you allow 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…
What you do is transformative. “With senior leaders, initially I don’t try to explain how Elevate has helped us work differently. It’s much more powerful to just say ‘we’re working agile’ and share the clearly different results. Our EVPs can see exactly where and how we are delivering on critical Read more…
What you do is magic! (But I have no idea how to tell my colleagues what it is…) “There’s magic in what you do, here, but I don’t know how to describe what it is you do. I just tell them ‘it’s agile for the whole business.’ ” Read more…
The Offsite Ann couldn’t believe what she was hearing from her team. “We talk about this ALL the time!” she said, frustrated. “We need to increase revenue to $87M for our line of business. It’s not that hard.” She couldn’t believe that the team couldn’t clearly articulate, off the cuff, Read more…
The Power of Verifying Clarity of Intent Most leadership teams we work with are surprised to find that their employees don’t remember the strategy. That’s usually because they are missing some critical tools to support effective strategy articulation, but it also is frequently because the team has not verified that Read more…