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Becoming an Agile Coach – 5 Tips for Multiple Coaches at a Client
Squatting at a free area… for now… Agile Coaching isn’t an easy sport to play… and when you have an entire group of Agile Coaches working together at a client, it can get even more hairy. Leading a...
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Agile Coach – 5 Tips for Building Relationships at a Client
Why is it that human relations problems are more difficult… the larger an organization gets? Is it simply a function of not being able to ‘touch’ everyone? Or is it deeper? I believe as businesses...
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Becoming an Agile Coach – 5 Tips for Agile Workshops and Communication
Me, doodling… Part of coaching often includes putting the coach in a ‘trainer position’ in that we hold workshops or scheduled learning opportunities for clients. The essence of training is not that we...
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The 8 C’s of Agile Coaching
The 8 C’s of Agile Coaching don’t compare (with others) don’t compromise (Agile foundational truth) don’t be critical (of anything or anyone) don’t centralize (on self) don’t be careless (give your...
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Getting back online: Agile, PMI, Volunteering and Me
*** Disclaimer: I am an active volunteer with PMI’s Agile Community of Practice as one of the 5 official leads. Views expressed here (and related future posts) are my own and not an endorsement by...
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Going Global – PDMA Georgia [Series 1/5]
Something innovative happened again at KO HQ this Thursday The PDMA| Georgia chapter held it’s 9th annual Summit - topics were global in scope but personal in focus. Much shared learning and best...
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From Iron to Cloud – Customer Driven Innovation [Series 2/5]
Customer Driven Innovation: A Global Perspective Changing iron by using the cloud Growers (Matt rarely called his customers “farmers”) are a uniquely tenacious and optimistic group. They have to be...
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Innovation by Immersion [Series 3/5]
Experience is the Message People have experiences about product, products don’t have experiences. - Marcelo Marer, Chief Creative Director, Intel Media What sells well in the U.S. many not be a...
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An Hypothesis is Really a Prototype [Series 4/5]
Agile as the Innovator Thought bytes Don’t think research is a phase, it is really ongoing. Prototyping is the way you learn. You learn so much by watching how people learn. It’s OK if the prototype...
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Outside In Perspective (Series 5/5)
The 3 B’s of Going Global: Beliefs, Behaviors, Benefits Beliefs and behaviors are the hard part. Behavior can get to beliefs, which is cultural. – Brad White, Partner, Prophet, formerly (r)evolution...
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Ideas on Managing Distributed Teams Using Agile [1/3] – Introduction and...
Today the businesses are shifting to emerging economies due to reduced business operations cost and easily available workforce, like Russia, China, India, Philippines etc. If I put it more precisely,...
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Ideas on Managing Distributed Teams Using Agile [2/3] – The Retrospective
Retrospective Timings : To be effective and timely, distributed teams should call joint retrospectives as soon as possible after having their own team meeting. Depending on the no. of teams involved...
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Ideas on Managing Distributed Teams Using Agile [3/3] – Review and Conclusion
Things to be followed by Distributed team in Sprint review meeting: Keeping Track of the Stakeholder Comments -During the sprint meeting, the distributed team needs to capture these comments so the...
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Agile Coach Leadership Traits
What is Leadership? Three Styles Autocratic – Has to do with a totalitarian approach to leadership. This is more of an attitude than a leadership style. This leader demands instant obedience, no...
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FAQ on Most Common ScrumMaster Questions for Management
As Agile and Scrum grows deeper into the market it is valuable for Management to communicate the rewarding and desirable career path that a ScrumMaster can have… even beyond just leading single Scrum...
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FAQ on Career Paths of ScrumMasters for Management
As Agile and Scrum grows deeper into the market it is valuable for Management to communicate the rewarding and desirable career path that a ScrumMaster can have… even beyond just leading single Scrum...
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FAQ on Most Common Product Owner Questions for Management
As Agile and Scrum grows deeper into the market it is valuable for Management to communicate the rewarding and desirable career path that a Scrum Product Owner can have… even beyond just leading single...
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FAQ on Career Path of Scrum Product Owners for Management
As Agile and Scrum grows deeper into the market it is valuable for Management to communicate the rewarding and desirable career path that a Scrum Product Owner can have… even beyond just leading single...
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Top ScrumMaster + Scrum Product Owner Questions from Training – FAQ
Scrum is easy to understand. It can be the hardest thing to actually do. Below are some of the most common questions we see in ScrumMaster and Scrum Product Owner courses. Before you go through this,...
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