There Is No Spotify Model for Scaling Agile
Recently a client told me that they were adopting the Spotify Model. Which sounded great at first. Spotify has published some great articles and videos about how they have grown…
4 Quick Ways to Decrease Team Performance
If you want to decrease the performance of your team simply increase team size, distribute the team, enforce specialization and use an online tool. These are quick and easy steps…
How Technology Managers can Succeed as Agile Leaders
An interview with David Sohmer, Financial Services Technology and Agile Leader In this video interview, David Sohmer talks about how technology managers can embrace agile ways of working, support their…
Facilitating Participatory Decision-Making Part 1
I have to admit, I always thought I understood exactly what Participatory Decision-Making (PDM) meant. I also prided myself on my facilitation skills - on dot voting, silent writing, fist of…
Why Self-Organizing Teams are Better
Many people are confused about the concept of self-organizing teams. They either equate it with anarchy or confuse self-organizing with self-forming, self-directed or self-managing. What does self-organizing really mean and…
For High Performing Teams, Stop Assigning People to Multiple Teams
In an effort to do more with less, most organizations take their best people and assign them to multiple projects. This approach rarely leads to high performing teams and actually…
We Fix Bad Scrum
We’ve all seen it - Scrum Gone Bad I think we have all seen Bad Scrum and misuse of the Scrum Framework. Sometimes Scrum started out good with a solid understanding of Scrum,…
Best Agile Team Size for High Performance?
What is the Ideal Agile Team Size for High Performance? Are you wondering if your agile team is too big or too small, or what is the optimal team size…
A Framework for Evaluating High-Performing Teams
Are you interested in creating high performing teams? Would you like to understand why some teams perform better than others, or to objectively evaluate the condition of your current team?…
10 Questions an Agile PMO Should Ask Agile Teams
To be an Agile PMO means that you need to understand agile and Scrum and speak to the language of the teams. Many PMOs insist on getting reports and updates…