In his book, Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan suggests that every organization consists of “tribes” at different stages. At the lowest level is the tribe who thinks, “Life sucks.” From there it goes up to “My life sucks,” then “I’m great,”…
If you're reading this blog chances are you're more than a little familiar with Agile. Maybe you've been experimenting with Scrum on a project team, or maybe you're doing SAFe™ release trains in your sleep. Maybe you don't even call…
By now, you've probably heard about the impending breakup of HP into two separate companies. Some are calling the division of the 75-year-old business a “watershed moment for one of tech's most iconic companies." Here’s something we thought was worth calling…
Last week we looked at how today’s global markets require new ways of doing business, so that you can respond quickly to threats and opportunities. We showed you why it’s not enough simply to implement Agile practices into your development…
Last week I met with a strategy leader for an Australian financial services organization, who was trying to work out how to bring his executive team together on a regular cadence to align around strategy. He’d built a great Kanban…
When the S&P 500 index was created in 1957, the average expected lifespan of a company on the index was 61 years. By 1980 that lifespan had been cut in half, and in the coming decade it likely will be…
Since Rally announced our support for SAFe™ 3.0 in July, we've been hard at work making sure our support for the latest Scaled Agile Framework® is all-encompassing. We know that scaling agility takes more than a product. In Dean’s words,…