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Product Ownership – Game of Thrones style

What if the characters from Game of Thrones happened to be Product Owners? How would their personas come to live in Agile teams? Let’s see how some of our favourite characters as Agile Product Owners....

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Switching up your retrospectives? Think again.

One of the biggest mistakes that I see new Agile teams (or teams at scale) do is moving too quickly into a different format to do a retrospective. It isn’t too surprising when you see that there are so...

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Ode to an Agile Coach

The outward delusion. A shaman, a seer, a parent and teacher, without fear.   If you do’t know you cannot see. If I tell you I cannot be.   Only in the silence does truth lie. Only in the journey do...

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Why SAFe is not the scaled Agile approach you need

  There are now over half a dozen scaled Agile approaches on the market. From Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), to Nexus (Scrum.org’s scaled agile), Scrum at Scale (Scrum Alliance’s version), Disciplined Agile...

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Agile contracts

Agile contracts. Those two words together in the title seem incredibly incongruent with Agile, after all, the Agile Manifesto’s third value is: Customer collaboration over contract negotiation But...

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Maybe Agile isn’t the answer for everything

I remember thinking when I first started using Agile over fifteen years ago that you couldn’t use Agile for everything in an organisation. Five years later when I learnt of Kanban I began to rethink...

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What do people want Agile Coaches to do?

Agile Coaching as a term hasn’t been around since the advent of Agile. It was a term that gained traction after the publication of Lyssa Adkin’s “Coaching Agile Teams” book in 2010. Before then, most...

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4 global trends from Agile 2019

A few weeks ago I had a joy of returning to Washington DC to attend the 2019 Agile Alliance conference. The last time I attended the conference was in 2015 when there was a high focus on scaled...

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Taylorism isn’t as far from Agile and Lean as you would think

We can see our forests vanishing, our water-powers going to waste, our soil being carried by floods into the sea; and the end of our coal and our iron is in sight. But our larger wastes of human...

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Seven changes Agile Coaches need to make to support remote coaching

Organizations dealing with the COVID-19 crisis are needing to reduce costs quickly and are consequently looking to remove or reduce their coaching cadre. This is understandable as it is often more...

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