Tag: Mindset
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If your agile team events are meetings – you’re doing it wrong!
Hello agile teammates! Can I get real with you for a minute? I want to share something that really gets my dander up… I don’t know about you, but when I hear folks refer to our agile team events as “meetings” I get a special kind of cranky! Let me explain… As you all…
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“Agiling in place” – Tales from agile managers
One of my favorite responsibilities is facilitating the Agile Leader Onboarding sessions. In these events – I get to talk to managers and leaders about the agile values and principles, how agile frameworks add value, and about how managing and leading people is very different in an agile environment. Inevitably we get into great conversations…
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What if I get it wrong…?
We’ve all heard that question (or some variant) in our head – often delivered in that ominous tone that our brain reserves for occasions when it truly wants to undercut our self-confidence – “OMG – what if I screw this up?” “What if what I say falls flat?” “What if this doesn’t work?” “What if…
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Report: New Capabilities Leaders Need…
In the spirit of growth and learning – I spend time every week exploring new ideas, reading and learning about agility and leadership. I came across a report published by McKinsey and Company in October of 2018 entitled Leading agile transformation: The new capabilities leaders need to build 21st-century organizations. It really resonated with me,…
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Beware! Zombies Approaching!
This agile coach was investing some time in himself this weekend and came across an article that warned of a topic he is aware of, and indeed himself has experienced- Zombie Agility! Now I know what you’re thinking – “He’s really off into the deep end this time,” but hear me out! I can assure…
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Coach’s Challenge – Do you control your commanding?
So first and foremost – kudos if you got past that horrible pun of a title. I’m (obviously?) thinking about the concept of command and control, and how as agile managers we can sometimes struggle with the voices in our head. You know what I’m talking about – the ones that say “Failure is not an…
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When are we “agile?”
I hear the questions all the time – “How long will it take for us to be agile?” “How do we know when we are agile?” “When will we be done transforming to agile?” Honest coach’s answer? I don’t know. I really don’t. Does it mean that all of the people in your organization are…
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You get what you measure…
Yesterday I was driving to meet a partner coach for coffee (yes I left my house…) and I heard a story on the radio that got me thinking about agile team metrics and how we use them. To be fair, the story had nothing to do with agile, teamwork, business, customer value or anything like that. …
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How do YOU define AGILE?
I received the best email from an agile marketer yesterday (if you want to see it, look to your right…) It came at the perfect time and made me feel proud to be working with these marketing teams. Now I always knew that our Marketers are among the very best and most creative in the…
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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…