You may have seen IT professionals praising the word Agile, used to describe wide array of practices, principles, and frameworks, all aimed at improving team’s effectiveness. As I work with them since 2011, I realized that the same way of working could, in a simplified way, be carried over to other teams.
More precisely, ANY team.
Read More »Free Training – Make Any Team AgileConsidering you do work with Scrum (which is no surprise, given how unnecessarily popular it seems to be), how can you make it better? You… Read More »3 Ways to Put Your Scrum on Steroids (Video)
Ah, an old question finally answered. After all, Scrum is popular (the most popular, actually), well documented, and easily fakeable (yes, yes… 😂). It is… Read More »Is Scrum a Good Framework? (Video)
Here it is.
With all the hype surrounding the new ways of working (though calling them ‘new’ is dubious at best), you can still find some dinosaur playing the old… Read More »Focusing Large Scale Agile Transformation
It was almost a decade ago. With two dozen of my colleagues, I was anxiously waiting in a dimly lit conference room. So, that was… Read More »Illusion of Mastery
I had a longer vacation recently. I was well prepared – backlog of things to achieve, some extra daily routines, places to see, people to meet, all that stuff. The results were, well, surprising: none. Yes, you got that right. I did nothing of what I planned to do. And, damn, I’m glad that things turned out like this.
Read More »Retreat, Regroup, ReengageFinally, after years of research, engagements with numerous clients, and discussions with my peers I have found the best possible Agile framework for your organization.… Read More »The Best Agile Framework
Sometime in 2011, I went with my girlfriend to the cinema to see the movie “Limitless”. While it’s based on completely wrong premise – one that people only use 20% of their brains – it was fun to watch. The protagonist, aspiring writer named Eddie, uses specially engineered pills that unlock his brain full capacity, pushing him into series of struggles, only to emerge hugely successful in the end. If you haven’t seen it – I highly recommend it, especially as this article includes a series of spoilers.
Read More »Become LimitlessEven though – technically speaking – it makes no sense to wait for some specific day to make summaries, we are doomed to the yearly cycle. Being creations of nature, we live in iterations, just like everything else does. There’s day and there’s night, there are season of the year, and there are passes around the Sun we reset every 1stof January.
Let me share with you how I fared through last 365 days. Just to make it easier, let’s split it into three categories: Health, Wealth, Relationships. After all, they encapsulate everything in life.
Read More »2018 – The Most Epic Year – So FarWhile the words in the title were never actually said in Apollo 13 control room, they are now forever interlocked with space travel. Many things can happen and are accepted – except for this one. I’ve seen many managers using the phrase often enough to trivialize it. More often than not, failure turned out to be a very viable option – the sole that realized. Even NASA, with all their hard work and technology, suffered some fatal accidents – usually quite spectacular.
Read More »Failure is Not an Option – Well, Really?About one year ago, I wrote an article about monkeys and ladder experiment. Despite seeing someone posting it on LinkedIn at least once a week, it was never conducted. The analogy is useful as a brilliant explanation on how people in workplace can become conditioned to do something completely senseless.
Just because “that’s how we do things around here!”Read More »Rock That Boat