I had the privilege to Co-Author my first book “Who is Agile in Australia and New Zealand” with Renee and Sunish . This book is available for purchase from here This book is a collection of interviews with passionate Australia…
Kanban is easy to set up, maintaining and improving is harder! When I visit a kanban team, I use these questions to check they know what they are doing. They are helpful since they are not tool focused, rather verifies…
In organisations that are resistant to change, I introduce change incrementally and iteratively. I use a Plan Do Check Act approach to rollout changes step by step. This blog describes that approach and what I think about as I attempt…
Every successful implementation of Lean or Agile I have seen has an ingredient that is almost a contradiction. A leader who has low ego (not interested in putting himself first) is present (he/she has active conversations with teams and other…
What I have learnt is; don’t. Lean is counter intuitive, ill-defined*, and a tough concept to sell. Instead, ask them what outcome they want to improve: efficiency, speed, quality, innovation, morale or reliability. Use Lean Thinking to determine what Predictor could…
One of the key responsibilities of the change agents is to bring positive change to the teams. However, we always hear that people resist change ! Some of the common answers for any change proposal includes, “It won’t work here”,…
I recently attended Lyssa Adkins’s workshop on coaching agile teams at the YOW conference, and I would like to share some of the lessons I learned. The workshop began with a presentation defining the different characteristics of an agile coach,…
Tools and technologies are an essential part of any distributed Agile development. Companies invest thousands of dollars in procuring high-fidelity video conferencing equipment at their onshore locations. However, one thing they nearly always ignore is the integration capability with their…
One of the key reasons Steve Ballmer cited for his resignation from Microsoft was that he was under too much pressure from senior leadership. The bottom-line seems to be that the board expected quick results to beat the competition, which…
I have recently posted my first game to TastyCupCakes.org, the Scrum Roles and Responsibilities game.This is a game that I have used many, many in my Scrum training courses. I have found it is a great way to help trainees…