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Category Archives: AgileRonica Roth (public profile), Agile Coach and CST who leads coaching strategy at Rally Software, answers the question, “What comes after scrum training?” Click the video below to see what Ronica says. *Video: ronica roth, team, leadership, development, training, scrum … Continue reading Last week Dan Mezick (agile coach, CEO of New Technology Solutions Inc., and AgileBoston volunteer extraordinaire) and I sat down “together” (on the phone) to talk about people and interactions at work. Dan wanted to pick my brain about the Creating Results-Based Teams … Continue reading Many have expressed interest in a simple and portable game they can play to help a group of people discover the Responsibility Process. As you may know, games are powerful learning tools since they engage players in a learner-centered discovery … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile2011, conference, game design, games, Salt Lake City
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Wow! A second group of IT leaders from a major retailer in the San Francisco Bay area AGAIN valued the Creating Results-Based Teams workshop they attended. Here’s their internal survey results. Here’s the results from the first group. Share the knowledge … Continue reading As you saw in the Responsibility Man – Part 1 video, my son Thom is having fun mastering his Leadership Gift by lovingly mocking his dad. Here is the super-hero costume he’s outfitted for me. What do you think? I’m not … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Agile, Leadershift Gift, Responsibility
Tagged Responsibility Man
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I firmly believe that the software development movement — and now business movement — known as “agile” is a mindset and culture, not a set of tools and processes (see this related post). Agile coach Michael Sahota is writing a … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Leadership, Management Training
Tagged Agile, business culture, Michael Sahota, mindset
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I left a comment at Financial Agile in response to Jamie Dobson’s post reviewing The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management. The post and comment are about how much we (i.e., the world of management, organization, and leadership ) have or … Continue reading What’s the scoop? I’m giving away: a downloadable PDF copy of Peter Saddington’s new book Scrum Pocket Guide: A Quickstart Guide to Practical Agile Software Development (sells for $17) an autographed copy of my book Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile Scout, book giveaway, Peter Saddington, Scrum, Scrum Pocket Guide
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Everyone says they want to be on a winning team. And nobody ever says they want to be on a lousy team. So how come we end up on frustrating teams much of the time? Here are the steps you … Continue reading A couple of months ago I wrote that Agile Is More Than a Set of Methods — It’s a Leadership Mindset. Agile methods won’t thrive unless the IT leadership mindset and culture is itself agile, and for most agile experts, … Continue reading |



