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  1. Lead from the Heart
    Jul 11, 2021 · original
    I lead from the heart, not from the brain . Which according to a Fastcompany article , which includes some great research conducted by the Institute of HeartMath, is exactly where leadership needs to be headed. We now know that the heart and the brain are in a constant two-way communication and that the heart sends more information to the brain than vice versa. The signals the heart sends affect the brain centers involved in our decision-making and in our ability to perceive. In other words, each beat reflects our current emotional state. If we’re angry, irritated or frustrated, the heart beats out a very chaotic message. Conversely, more positive emotions create harmony in our nervous system and the heart rhythm pattern we have when we’re in our most optimal state. Fascinating and yet there is so much logic in this it’s a wonder we haven’t thought about this before. Coincidentally, a To
  2. Agile Can Be Difficult to Adopt – 5 Things to Consider
    Jun 5, 2021 · original
    Agile has been all the rage in software development for many years now. Its popularity exists mostly among smaller teams that iterate quickly and release frequently. Agile software development promotes an environment of rapid feedback and continuous improvement. At its core, it helps teams ship fewer high quality features instead of shipping a bunch of features that don’t quite work. In general, agile is highly regarded in the software development word. But in some larger organizations, agile is often the subject of much criticism and can be found difficult to adopt. After all, how do you get a big, complicated company to adopt a small, simple philosophy? Larger organizations often struggle to make the agile methodology work for a variety of reasons. Here are some of them: Agile is a Cultural Shift Moving away from established rules and procedures can be difficult for large organizations
  3. Culture is What People Care About
    May 9, 2021 · original
    Are you a consultant, agile coach, or employee of a company? Lol. That’s all of you! Here’s the hard truth: You are not as effective as you possibly could be. I know first-hand what it’s like going into a company and not having the faintest clue as to what they are really like. Yes, I got the “brief,” I’ve had the meetings, I even had a few 1-on-1’s, but I really haven’t gotten the whole story. Often, it’s 100% my fault too, as I had not set up the engagement to allow me greater time to sit down and more fully understand the culture…Hey. I’m still human. Oh, and it’s even harder in this remote-work world we live in… I would venture that you may have experienced something like this as well… You and I both know that it’s really difficult to get a solid pulse on the cultural and team dynamics at play – sometimes we’re simply flying blind. And, you don’t have to be a consultant or coach for
  4. Office Hours and Conformity? – No. Delivery is King!
    Apr 20, 2021 · original
    During one of my CSM classes, I was discussing with a student that her company still has office hours and they are “required” to be online at 9AM… In our new world, why is this still a thing? ( Unless you actually have a meeting at 9AM… which changes the context)… I find it fascinating that in many corporate contexts that: conformity equates to productiveness (in terms of perception). This is not true. In Agile, our most powerful evidence of effort is delivery . Don’t miss this point. Almost nothing else matters. Progress Status Sign Offs Productivity metrics Performance metrics Trends Graphs Pie charts Reports I could go on and on… but none of that matters. Ask yourself a powerful question. Would you rather tell your leadership/CEO/executive/manager that: “We are working hard.” OR “We have delivered something, would you like to review it?” Delivery is everything. Progress means nothing.
  5. Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (April 14, 2021)
    Apr 14, 2021 · original
    You don’t “manage people.” You should be (leading) people and (managing) the work. Or said better, love on people and unblock them. — Agile Peter Go to our upcoming courses page to sign up for one of our classes so you can get more wisdom like this!
  6. Leadership and Data – A Filtered Experience
    Apr 10, 2021 · original
    “As organizations (and societies) grow larger and more complex, the people at the top (whether managers or analysts) depend less and less on firsthand experience, more and more on heavily “processed” data. Before reaching them, the raw data – what actually goes on “out there” – have been sampled, screened, condensed, compiled, coded, expressed in statistical form, spun into generalizations and crystallized into recommendations.” – John W. Gardner in Self Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society It is a characteristic of information processing systems that they systematically filter out certain kinds of data so that these nuances of data never reach the ones who depend on the system… Agile is all about transparency. I would, and we constantly suggest to our clients, that we do our very utmost to give unfiltered views of how things are going with development, all facets of develo
  7. Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (April 7, 2021)
    Apr 7, 2021 · original
    Sprint Planning Meetings for 2-week sprints should take 4 hours or less. However, the first one you ever do will be the worst 10-12 hours of your life up to that point! — Agile Bob Join one of our upcoming classes to make your Spring Planning better. Otherwise don’t be surprised when this bites you!
  8. Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (March 31, 2021)
    Mar 31, 2021 · original
    Be exceptionally useful. I understand specialization, but not at the cost of usefulness. The most successful people I know are exceptionally useful in a multitude of ways. — Agile Peter Learn how this can help you and your team. Go to our upcoming courses page to sign up for one of our classes so you can get more wisdom like this!
  9. Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (March 24, 2021)
    Mar 24, 2021 · original
    Saying “Failing fast is ok” is not helping. People simply don’t want to fail. Instead, say “Learning fast is ok” and see how often people will take risks, even when they end up failing fast! — Agile Bob Go to our upcoming courses page to sign up for one of our classes so you can get more wisdom like this!
  10. Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (March 17, 2021)
    Mar 17, 2021 · original
    People who hustle are always to be respected. Whether it’s posted on social or not. Cheers to the quiet hustlers and the builders in the shade. — Agile Peter Scrum Teams should be respected. Working in sprints is hard. Go to our upcoming courses page to sign up for one of our classes so you can get more wisdom like this!
  11. Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (March 10, 2021)
    Mar 10, 2021 · original
    Sarcasm mode on! When faced with two different ways to implement something, good programmers will ask themselves “what would the customer want?” Then they will make the wrong choice anyway! — Agile Bob And that’s why we need dedicated Product Owners! Go to our upcoming courses page to sign up for one of our classes so you can get more wisdom like this!
  12. Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (March 3, 2021)
    Mar 3, 2021 · original
    One of the hardest things to do in life is say “no.” To invitations, requests, and stuff everyone else is doing. Even harder is saying no to certain time-consuming emotions: anger, distraction, obsession, lust, busy work. When you say “yes” you’re committed. Say “no” more. — Agile Peter The infamous NO! button ScrumMasters need to help their teams do this. Go to our upcoming courses page to sign up for one of our classes so you can get more wisdom like this!
  13. Great Training Gives Life Changing Results
    Mar 2, 2021 · original
    The purpose of adult education is to help them learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.” -Carl Rogers Sharon Bowman, the author of the book “Training From the Back of the Room,” has been an enormous influence in my career. She told me very early on, “You don’t want to be the sage on the stage; you want to be the guide on the side.” She helped me recognize the importance of connecting people with the content rather than with the trainer. For me, the most challenging thing she said was, “the one doing the talking is the one doing the learning, so make sure the students talk more than the instructor.” I read Sharon’s book in late 2009, and it was life-changing. The book was responsible for changing the entire Agile and Scrum training industry. I wrote a blog entry about it , and I spoke about it every chance I got. Other trainers were ready for change, and cha
  14. Your team isn’t diverse? You should panic. Right now!
    Feb 25, 2021 · original
    We are at our most innovative when we exchange ideas with people from diverse backgrounds—even those with whom we vehemently disagree.” — Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity by Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods There are good reasons why DE&I (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is a hot topic. The awful, terrible truth is the high-tech space lacks all three elements of DE&I. Not all companies are lacking, but most are, and they don’t lack just a little bit! Fewer than 10% of software developers are female. Only 7% of Fortune 500 CEOs are female. You can easily find these statistics, but they only deal with the gender aspect of diversity. I’m using these examples because everyone knows approximately 50% of the population is female, so numbers like 7% and 10% are way out of whack. The problem is worse than the statistics indicate. The worst k
  15. Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (February 24, 2021)
    Feb 24, 2021 · original
    When you change the way you think about product development you will change the way you want to do product development. Remember to focus on shared principles and values before worrying about practices. The agile mindset drives the proper focus and better results! — Agile Bob Our courses are specifically designed around this advice. If you understand the “why,” you will do the “how” better! Go to our upcoming courses page to sign up for one of our classes so you can get more wisdom like this!
  16. Destroying things is easy so dare to do better
    Feb 23, 2021 · original
    It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it. — Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method (page 416) by Gerald M. Weinberg When I think of software, I immediately think of complexity. The two have been intertwined for me since I wrote my first computer program in 1971. The program I wrote was not complex, nor was the problem related to it. The linkage with complexity was evident when I realized the vastness of problems computers could solve. I remember wondering if a computer could play chess or even checkers? I immediately saw enormous potential for the future of computers, and in some ways, I think I saw my destiny. A complex system is a system composed of many components which may interact with each other. — Wikipedia entry for “Complex system” I didn’t officially become a software developer until more than ten years later, but what I wondered about wa
  17. Two Popular Time Management Techniques that will Change Your Life!
    Feb 18, 2021 · original
    When was the last time you felt like you had everything completely under control? If you are like most people who attend my classes, you probably feel out of control more often than feeling in control. And that’s normal, but only because most of us haven’t been exposed to great tools to help us feel less overwhelmed. When you think about it for only a few seconds, you realize many things are working against your ability to feel in control: Too much to do. This generally causes us to begin multi-tasking, which is an awful way to work. Click here for more on this topic. Changing priorities. When priorities are continually shifting, it is impossible to dig in and feel productive. Unrealistic deadlines. Goals that are impossible cause incredible stress. Stress leads to errors and a feeling of being overwhelmed. So far, I haven’t told you anything you don’t already know. Life is hard, and it
  18. Agile For All’s Helpful Quote of the Week (February 17, 2021)
    Feb 17, 2021 · original
    Knowledge, particularly self-knowledge, is freedom. Why is this so? When you know yourself, you can work and live 100% within your wheelhouse in ALL aspects of life. Work, play, rest, de-stress, love, eat, etc. You’ve optimized. You’ve gone pro. — Agile Peter ScrumMasters need to deeply understand this and they need to help their teams understand it as well. Go to our upcoming courses page to sign up for one of our classes so you can get more wisdom like this!
  19. Powerful ways to build amazing teams (5 of 5)
    Feb 16, 2021 · original
    Optimal Development Team size is small enough to remain nimble and large enough to complete significant work within a Sprint. Fewer than three Development Team members decrease interaction and results in smaller productivity gains. Smaller Development Teams may encounter skill constraints during the Sprint, causing the Development Team to be unable to deliver a potentially releasable Increment. Having more than nine members requires too much coordination. Large Development Teams generate too much complexity for an empirical process to manage. — 2016 Scrum Guide Amazing teams are almost always small teams. The quote from the 2016 Scrum Guide makes it clear why team size is so important. There is a tremendous amount of research on this topic. Doing a Google search for “optimal team size” gave “about 333,000,000 results.” Is the Scrum answer of 3-9 people correct? Spending a bit of time com
  20. Agile For Alls’s Helpful Quote of the Week (February 10, 2021)
    Feb 10, 2021 · original
    Many people think Scrum is about getting things done faster. It isn’t. You get the right things done in the right order and you leave out anything that doesn’t add value. The net result is you may deliver faster, but it is because you did the right things, at the right time, in the right way. — Agile Bob Scrum Teams, especially the Product Owners, need to deeply understand this. Go to our upcoming courses page to sign up for one of our classes so you can get more wisdom like this!

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