Making A Call to Rethink What We Call Agile Suppose you wanted to have a party where people were happy they came.  You hire a catering group to run the party and provide food for your guests.  They come to your home and you discuss what you want, they go to the grocery store and ...

A Revisit This is a revisit of my earlier blog on the same topic. A lot of companies struggle with developing a more agile approach to planning. They are quite comfortable with creating and following project plans. This blog explores the advantages of doing quarterly planning instead. 1. Management Vision and Priorities Become Known Every ...

Many times when agile coaches get together, we often start talking about how our agile transformations are progressing and what metrics we’re using.  From what I’m seeing, there is an emerging focus on “actionable metrics”. I like actionable metrics as it focuses on the work being delivered instead of some metrics which focus on how ...

Why Should a Company “Go Agile”? A CMO I worked with wanted his company to quickly respond to a competitive threat it discovered. Thanks to the agile workflow established at that company, the threat was blunted with a response that took just six weeks to deliver. The immediate response resulted from a focused, collaborative effort ...

Why Should a Company “Go Agile”? A CMO I worked with wanted his company to quickly respond to a competitive threat it discovered. Thanks to the agile workflow established at that company, the threat was blunted with a response that took just six weeks to deliver. The immediate response resulted from a focused, collaborative effort ...