“We have so much to get done.”
“We have so much to get done.” Stop. Your goal is to build less software, not more. Minimize the software you make, and maximize its impact.
Read moreLet’s Get that Score Up!
Your organization won’t change because a leader announces that it needs to happen. Well, the metric or score can improve, but the organization won’t. Leaders can support and encourage change.…
Read moreWhat are you Asking?
Leaders who have never been asked to coach employees in the past usually can’t simply start doing it because you asked them to. And, why do your employees need coaching?…
Read moreA Word About Productivity
The goal of leading change is not to restore people to their productivity before the change. Leading change is about helping people understand change, and how they connect to it.…
Read moreSimple is not Dumb
Complicating things by swirling concepts into PowerPoint slides (an agile leader I know calls them slide-uments) and pages of explanation may feel validating, but they are not helping your cause.…
Read moreBetter, not Absolute
If you and your teams find yourselves talking about, coaching, or leading methodologies in absolutes, you are missing the point of them. Agile is a better way for software development…
Read moreNeutral is Negative
Organizational health needs your honesty, and your contributions. It’s not what were used to, and it doesn’t feel safe. It’s our career on the line, after all. So the easiest…
Read moreGet it Done!
Now that we are well into February…how are you doing on your goals for the year? Are you making progress, or are you stuck on one thing? Or, in the…
Read moreManagerial Courage
The usual benefits of visual management are well known: See the big picture, structure your activities, watch and improve performance, and engage everyone. There is an outcome from these benefits…
Read more(Finally) Done!
When that long-standing, problematic, work item is finally moved to done, it might feel good. Yet without the mindset to ask…why did this one take so long to flow through?…
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