I read an old colleague’s article about ‘Adaptive Leadership’. I really enjoyed it. He posted it on LinkedIn. Go check it out, it’s a good read. It’s his fifth article on there and I hope to see more. In it, Brian discussed and explained the different leadership styles used during different team development stages (you … Continue reading An Agile Team’s Progression Through the Stages of Team Development
Scaled Agile
Confidence Vote: The Whole Train Votes
I was recently coaching an Agile Release Train where when they were doing the confidence vote during PI Planning the managers sat around a table and had the teams each sequentially vote on the confidence in their plans. The confidence vote in PI Planning is to capture the entire Agile Release Train’s confidence in the … Continue reading Confidence Vote: The Whole Train Votes
Plan in the Same Room
I recently facilitated a PI Planning workshop where we had, well, let’s just say—erm—less than optimal facilities. To be fair, the Release Train Engineer (RTE) did the best they could given other constraints. Our train was conducting it’s planning somewhere in Europe (I know, I know, I sound like a secret agent). If you’ve been … Continue reading Plan in the Same Room
Minimize Team Churn
One behavior pattern I have observed in traditional management structures is the idea that human beings are essentially replaceable parts. You take one cog in the machine and if its about the right size you can jam it somewhere else to make the system move faster. The reality is much different. Even the smallest change … Continue reading Minimize Team Churn
Some Silos Form Naturally but Require Conscious Investment to Fix
I recently had the opportunity to work with a client who is taking on a massive re-platform of a cyber-physical system. The “cyber” part being a cloud hosted IoT platform built on top of Microsoft Azure (and all of its goodies) and the “physical” part being security and monitoring devices. The team is a global … Continue reading Some Silos Form Naturally but Require Conscious Investment to Fix
Sky Cliffs 