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Secret Revealed! Guaranteed Success for your Agile Transition
So you have initiated an Agile transition and have faced some resistance to change! Or maybe, you assessed your current level of Agile Maturity and are hoping to achieve the next level. Better yet, you...
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I don’t feel so good – I’m a people manager in an Agile organization
At the Agile 2010 Conference this week, out of the two hundred or so sessions presented, a number of them talked about the role of the manager in an Agile team. A few people believe managers are no...
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Agile in a Command-and-Control Organization : What to do when upper...
My colleague François Perron launched a very interesting discussion on our private wiki – “As a coach, what to do when executives and upper management force the project team to do over time in order to...
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Between a rock and a hard place – The managers in an agile transition
I bumped into Steven last week. Steven is director of application development in a large organization and like most manager in his early forty’s, he looked tired and although he is usually a happy...
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3 behavior changes to increase team performance
In addition to working on a new Vision (more on this in an upcoming post) and establishing new strategies, I’m operating a small cultural transition. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” – Peter...
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We are surrounded by Zombies! We better do something…
I finally finished writing this post that I started just after Halloween – not because it is long or complex but simply because other things were more of a priority. Anyhow, back in October and in the...
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Real-life laboratory for human experiments – The case of an Agile organization
Our organization is well known in Canada, France, and other French speaking countries around the world as a leader with the Agile approaches. We are one of the few organizations in North America with...
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Agile self-organized teams – is the team self-organized or not?
Where ever we read about self-organized teams, it often seems to be a binary thing – either the team is self-organized or it isn’t. When people suggest that the team should become self-organized, the...
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Great news the project is over! Now let’s dismantle the team
Congratulations, you have finally delivered the project! The team you have carefully assembled over many months can now be dismantled and people can go back to their normal job. That’s the natural...
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From team self-organization to enterprise self-organization
I had the opportunity to facilitate a discussion table at the “Déjeuner-Causerie” in Montreal (last week) and in Quebec City (this week) where over 50 people gathered in each city to share their...
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