Agile is about Collaboration and Cultivation Culture
What is Agile Culture? In an earlier post, I talked about Schneider’s model for understanding culture – How to make your culture work. (Hint: this post will make more sense […]
How to Make Your Culture Work (Schneider)
About a year ago, I stopped using the Schneider culture model. Instead, I use the Laloux Culture Model. Why? It works better for my clients.
Scrum and XP are not what you think
I learned in the last month that I don’t know what XP is. As it turns out, I don’t really know what Scrum is either. This is a good thing. […]
Coaching with Photos
This is a guest blog post co-written with Christine Neidhardt based on a session at Play4Agile conference on coaching with photos. The session was based on an experiment with the […]
Play4Agile Conference – Almost Perfect
I just realized now – a month after the conference – what it was that made Play4Agile a special, magical conference for me. Of course it’s the people, but there […]
Post-Chasm Agile Blues
Agile has crossed the chasm and things are different over here. Really different. And not so good. It feels like we have landed at Dieppe (Canadian/British Military WW2 Failure). The […]
Red Pill, Blue Pill & Ugly Transition Realities
A critical predictor of success I have seen in Agile transitions is how people define reality.
5 Ways Scrum Creates Safety (vs. XP)
Just had my first article posted to Scrum Alliance website. Here is the abstract:
Shhh! Agile Failures (in the large)
Agile failure is a sensitive topic but one that we as a community need to talk about in order to build a brighter future together. In this post, I will […]
How to Facilitate a Great Game Debrief
Ilja Preuß ran a peer workshop at Play4Agile on Tips for debriefing a game. Thanks to everyone for sharing such wonderful ideas.
How to teach anything (Open Space Rules)
Not only was I fortunate to attend Play4Agile in Germany this week, I also had the privilege of working with the organizing team to act as a Spirit Keeper and help with […]
Play with Lego for Strategic Results
At XPDays Benelux I was fortunate to accidentally attended Agile Community Vision with StrategicPlay by Olaf Lewitz and Yves Hanoulle. If you are curious how you can use Lego to […]
