by Jason | Nov 19, 2017 | Big Ideas, Upcoming workshops
“We want to build a ‘say anything’ culture, how do we do that?” A few years back, Jurgen Appelo and I visited an organization that wanted to figure out how to shift their culture. Jurgen started the day off with an inspirational talk, and I...
by Jason | Sep 12, 2017 | Big Ideas
Sometimes change doesn’t happen as quickly as we’d like it to. Whether you’re a change manager, agile coach, or employee tasked with making a change work, you’re most likely needing to influence people around you without having direct control or ownership of the...
by Jason | Jul 24, 2017 | Becoming Agile
We’ve sifted through a decade of Version One’s State of Agile Development survey in order to create our Decade of Agile report (that you can get for free here), to see how Agile has evolved over the years. It’s no surprise to those who follow the...
by Jason | Nov 29, 2016 | Becoming Agile
This year at the Toronto Agile Tour I ran a new session about how to hire an Agile Coach. A few months ago I saw an article on Linked In titled something to the effect of “how to pass your Scrum Master/Coach interview”. Thanks to whoever wrote it, because...
by Jason | Apr 24, 2016 | Becoming Agile, Big Ideas
Scrum has 3 roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Team Member. Scrum specifically says the team needs all the necessary skills to do the work, which is why people are referred to as Team Members. What happens in large organizations that have oodles of specialists?...
