Badass Agile

Agile teams can be poisoned by negative energy. Are you - or someone on your team - leaking negativity? Find out how - and what you can do about it.

If you want to follow the agile or scrum manual or worship the rules, you can't be an artist.

Agile Survival Agile survival depends on circulating value. You can't stand still, surrounded by the same four walls, and expect to grow. A Bad Pattern We've gotten into a bad pattern in the past few decades. If we're not talking software, we don't know how to serve our clients with agility. Most CEO's don't know for sure what agile is - or what it can do for them when used beyond the technology s...

Agile Certification is a for-profit product. Can it be an effective way to become a better Agile Leader? Education is a way to develop skills and learn concepts quickly. Modern education, and industry certifications are designed to ensure predictable outcomes from regular employees. While Agile Certifications can be a great way for a beginner to ramp up quickly, they are NOT the best way to develo...

[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text] You cannot ascend if your beliefs, routines thoughts, experiences and emotions are limited to your present circumstances and reality. Think and feel bigger than your environment. ***JOIN THE FORGE*** Sign up for an upcoming info session about our online leadership immersion experience. https://event.webinarjam.com/register/15/l71zgcl...

Either we struggle with change or we struggle with productivity. If we struggle with change we struggle to start things, but sometimes we struggled to sustain them. Change is very hard but I'm convinced that one of the reasons we plan so much is because we're avoiding action. That's right - I'll say it again. We're not foolish. We know that nobody can predict the future and that most attempts to p...

Despite the bad news all around, I have tremendous hope in us. This is a time of great divisiveness, and yet, we've been through this before. The Agile Leader has the ability to begin with one - one team, one community, and demonstrate by example how we can move from division to accord. Unless we learn to move in the same direction, we can never truly accomplish anything great. ***JOIN THE FORGE**...

It's not the quitting part I have a problem with; it's the quiet part. You absolutely should insist on a sustainable, balanced life. Agilists are supposed to be good at this. You must reclaim your time - no one will do it for you. But how? Easy. Stop focusing on the "things you must do". Meetings, admin, various tasks, and responding to emails. Focus on the top 3 high-value items to deliver. To ma...

Sensitivity to words. Aversion to risk. Sensitivity to truth. The power of anonymity and self-righteousness. Avoidance of challenge and growth. These raging currents threaten the nobility of our potential. There is something to be said for having reached a level of self-awareness and greatness where you recognize how limitless, productive, fearless, and effective you are. Most people hold back for...

Quiet Quitting is trending so hard, it has its own hashtag. What is it, and what do you need to consider? What Is Quiet Quitting? Quiet Quitting is a passive form of protest. It is the act of giving up your duties beyond the bare minimum - without actually quitting your job. It's Happening Whether You Like It Or Not As a leader or executive, quiet quitting is happening whether you're paying attent...

It's not about what you know. Intimate Scrum or Kanban knowledge does not create greatness. Your mindset, character and habits do. I'm at my best when I'm creating heroes - people of vision, discipline, grit and self-awareness. Combine these with your desire for excellent practice, and you become effective. Unforgettable. ***JOIN THE FORGE*** Sign up for an upcoming info session about our online l...

Main reasons for backsliding:-Not enough time to build a habit-Not enough of an emotionally compelling reason to stay the course (alignment to higher ideas, desire for benefit, avoidance of pain)-The pain of change is WORSE than the pain of not changing-When things get busy or difficult, we let go of anything NEW or not related to SURVIVAL This problem is amplified when a coach just parachutes in...

[et_pb_section admin_label="section"] [et_pb_row admin_label="row"] [et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"] If you have areas of your life and work that NEVER seem to progress…you're stuck. It's a headscratcher, because you have other areas where you're crushing it. So you KNOW you can set and hit goals. You know you want to FINALLY tackle it. That thing you never tackle. You know...

Instead of acting in circles around things we can't impact, what if we focused on those things we could actually control? The things we should control. The things we've been told we're not allowed to question.-Our time-Our reputation-Our Action level-Our influence-Our attitude-Self-reliance, discipline-Habits Working to change other people, events - the past OR the future - is where we leak the mo...

Much of our defining, outward behaviour emerges through experiences that forge our beliefs. Beliefs become default ways of acting and reacting - many of which don't serve us. Approaching mastery often feels like 'becoming limitless,' which is precisely what we must do. We have to shatter the boundaries caused by our beliefs. When our beliefs are negative or constraining, we may avoid doing the rig...

Many of us are unwilling to hear what we don’t want to hear. Many of us are unwilling to do what we don’t want to do. Many of us are unwilling to experience what we don’t want to experience. This unwillingness means we are like a leaf in the wind…spinning around in circles. We are sailing at the whim of the tide. This is the reason for your lack of momentum. This is why you are stuck in the same p...

By focusing all of your efforts on service, passion, purpose - everything can change. Learn why a simple shift to service-based mindset amplifies your results. A focus on creating value for the benefit of others - a group, a customer, a stakeholder - makes it easier to build trust, influence, followership AND persistence. Make it clear who you serve, how you serve them, and why you care - and noti...

Perhaps the reason we struggle to let agile be is because we don't trust in creativity. If you think creativity has no place in the corporate headquarters, you'd be wrong. Solutioning, experimentation, and innovation are all creative processes. They are essential to agility, and to providing value in the marketplace. Because I have a daily creative ritual, I'm able to envision new outcomes, solve...

There are three things that affect performance at scale. I call them the three 'P's. Past, Permission and Perfection. The master skill is to teach your teams how to let go of the way they've always done things (and the certainty that comes with it), the need to ask for permission or approval on every decision and intention (and the certainty that comes with it), and the need to do things perfectly...

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I hate to disappoint you, but leadership isn't a thing either. Our belief that it IS is holding us back. Leadership skill is alluring.  We've all seen a great leader and admired them. Their mastery of language, their calm, certainty.  Poise. Their influence. Their vision. You can't buy leadership skill.  Studying leadership theory gets you nowhere. At best, leadership is a collection of skills, mo...

Sorry to disappoint, but agile isn't a thing. -We treat it like a program you install or a product you buy. -We expect that there is magic in the arrangement of principles and practices. -We expect this to make things somehow 'better' -Worse, we sell it (or allow it to be sold) as though it will -As a result, we fail to focus on the attitudes and practices that bring about victory -Sadly, those pr...

How does your Scrum team handle blockers? How can you be more successful handling impediments? I love blockers. I'm obsessed with organizing myself and my teams so that blockers don't create failure. Instead of quitting, we choose to 'find a way or make a way'. When faced with real impediments, how do we behave? It's never a matter of your agile/scrum skill. It's a function of your will. Condition...

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I’ve found that success requires constant examination. Agile, specifically, is just a tool. It's a set of guiding principles and structured actions designed to bring about a consistent positive result. But the things that are actually required are never modelled or enforced. Courage, awareness, humility. These are the skills that add up to the spirit of the word agile. True flexibility and fluidit...