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Lack of Co-location: Problem or Symptom?
I was doing some training with middle managers the other week. We were exploring ways that they can help support their teams and organizational change. The topic of agile team co-location came up and...
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Enterprise Lean Startup: Canvasing the Enterprise with Business Model Canvas...
Enterprise Lean Startup – Business Model Generation Webinar With David Bland If you happened to miss our most recent webinar, or just want to check it out again, we have the entire session recorded...
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Why a Dedicated ScrumMaster?
Must a Scrum team have a dedicated ScrumMaster? By “dedicated,” I mean that the ScrumMaster role is filled by one person, on one team, and is not expected to do any other type of work on that team or...
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Scrum: Easier Done Than Said
On one of the earliest Scrum projects I coached, a developer said something that has always stuck with me about all this Scrum and agile stuff. We were beginning to move beyond the original skunkworks...
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Agile Coaching Tip: Innovation through Hardship
Whenever I’m helping a Scrum team start up, I invariably find myself in a conversation talking about sprint lengths. I generally recommend two-week sprints, and almost every time the immediate response...
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Subtractive Transformation (or “How Improving a Company is Like Improving a...
After living overseas for two years and not playing golf the entire time, I returned to the states, joined a golf league, and quickly realized how out of practice I was. I had always had good luck...
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Organizational Agility: Leading Change from the Middle
The nature of change is such that if we cannot create a critical mass, enough momentum to create inertia for continuation rather than against continuation, the change will (at best) slowly revert back...
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CEO Corner: Innovation and Agility in Practice
In a recent episode of Pulse Network’s CEO Corner, BigVisible co-founder Giora Morein discusses BigVisible, agile coaching, organizational agility & innovation, and how to convince executives that...
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Lean Time Management: Are You a Slave to Someone’s Calendar?
When you get to work in the morning, what is the first thing that you do? I mean, after getting the cup of coffee and cinnamon-swirl danish. Do you check your calendar to see what meetings you have to...
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ScrumMasters and Managers
Recent discussions with my colleagues have got me thinking precisely about the role of ScrumMasters in organizations. When I first started coaching teams to adopt Scrum I would argue that the...
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Five Facets of the Agile Organization: Holistic Change for the Serious
If your organization is attempting to become more agile or lean, you are likely experiencing some common challenges—challenges which, left unaddressed, may result in either failure of your change...
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Organizational Agility & the Dangers of Myopic Agility
For those of you who have been managing and growing agile teams for some months, see if the following sequence of graphs doesn’t ring a bell: Exhibit A: The Early Signs of Myopia This depicts a...
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A Strategy for Growing Organizational Agility
In a previous blog post and the accompanying white paper, we talked about organizational agility and the dangers of myopic agility. As is more fully detailed in that post, the most common form of...
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Kanban and Scrum Training for Girl Scouts
One of the coolest things about being a Certified Scrum Trainer is that your job is basically to help people discover a better way or working. Most of the time this means helping them let go of what...
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“Concept-to-Cash”: A 7 Minute Agile Case Study
Got seven minutes to spare? Click on the link below to view this intriguing segment on a client’s agile case study about how an organization increased its efforts to make better business decisions and...
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The Great Wall: Scaling Agile on a Multi-Team Project
If you are launching a large-scale agile project (e.g. one that requires more than a couple of Scrum teams) then careful consideration should be given to how you scale the management of the project....
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Quiet Time vs. Interaction Time
A fellow BigVisible coach started an interesting conversation on our internal email lists the other day. He pointed to a post about the idea of “No Talk Thursdays” which referenced this article at...
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Practical Systems Thinking: An Appreciation of the System
When you hear the term “systems thinking”, do you roll your eyes? Does it seem irrelevant to what we are doing in software development? I used to think that way, that Systems Thinking was just an...
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Practical Systems Thinking: Identify the Constraint
Do you know where the constraint is within your system? Are you aware that you have one? Our first video in Practical Systems Thinking talked about having an appreciation of your system. All systems...
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Practical Systems Thinking: Exploit the Constraint
Practical Systems Thinking: Exploiting the Constraint In our second video of the series from last week, “Identifying the Constraint” we covered how you go about identifying the constraint(s) in your...
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