Author: Coach Dan
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What’s stopping you?
Every single one of you reading this post is at a different stage in your agile journey. Some of you have been on agile teams for a year or more. Some of you are about to start with a new team. Some of you bring learnings from other places. Some of you are just taking…
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Manager Musings – Investing In Yourself
What’s better than Monday of a new work week? A couple of days of rest and relaxation behind us; nothing but limitless possibilities in front of us! Ok, if you’ve made it through that cheeseball opening line, keep going – there’s a point! As agile managers and leaders, we’re in the people-development business, and one…
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Speed is just a byproduct…
I bet you a week’s worth of coffee – in my case, a fairly substantial bet – if you were to ask ten random leaders, “Why Agile?,” the vast majority of them would say, “Speed.” Ask a follow-up question, “What do you mean when you say speed?,” and you will undoubtedly get the response, “Things…
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You don’t have to be “doing” Agile to “be” agile…
There is a huge myth that I want to dispel here and now. You don’t have to be doing Scrum, Scrumban, Kanban or some other Agile Framework to BE agile. Also – just because you DO Scrum or one of the other Frameworks doesn’t automatically MAKE you agile. Agile is a mindset. A set of…
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Coach’s Challenge – What did you do differently this week?
It’s easy to get in a rut. We’re busy people, for sure. Lots of people counting on us both at work, and outside of work. “We all win together” means we give our teams our all so we can bring value to our customer. I get it. But that is no excuse for not embracing…
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