Tag: Values
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Thankful – not just today – but every day!
As we approach this holiday season (and despite the fact that my personal backlog keeps getting longer instead of shorter) I feel compelled to take a moment and share a list of things for which I’m most thankful. (Cliché’, I know – but deal with it… when it comes to Coach Dan, you take the…
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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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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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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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Happy National Bubble Wrap Day
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