A lack of trust and respect in those you work with or those that lead can make Agile adoption difficult, trust me, we've seen it first hand. #agile #leadership

A great article on how scaling Agile can be difficult, a few thoughts: - Companies want to be agile but discount the amount of effort and time this can take - Agile doesn’t work if you don’t get the...

A fantastic article showing Agile in practice. Here are a few things that stood out to us:   - "Things don’t always proceed as planned. People discover a piece of work isn’t as simple as they’d...

We often work with teams that have trouble triaging requests that come in: - Is it urgent and we have to down tools? - Can we schedule it into this sprint? - Can we plan for it in our next sprint? -...

In all of the distributed teams that we have worked with we underline the importance of Face-to-Face over Video over Voice over Instant Messaging over Email. It not only helps improve communication...

I can't stress this enough: "Just because a person excels as a contributor does not mean they are suited to lead a team, or even manage a direct report." I've lost count of the number of teams I...

I have been reading Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman and he references a fascinating article written by Ben Casnocha titled "10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman", well worth a read. You can check it our for...

"Asking your colleagues to point out errors in your work is a learned — not instinctive — behavior" - this article has lots of good information for developers, managers, leaders on the importance of...

"I could have helped team members improve faster, fired people with the wrong fit earlier, had so many more productive meetings. I could have created a more open company culture." Looking back over...

I had an unexpected message in my inbox earlier sharing news that a team I worked with last year smashed their Q1 goals and their Q2 planning session was their best ever. It’s feedback like this...