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 Sue Johnston | Oct 27, 2017 | Big Ideas, Sue's Blog, Upcoming workshops
There’s an old saying, rooted in journalism, that a picture is worth 1,000 words. While we might ask for scientific evidence or challenge the math, most people agree that visuals add enormously to our understanding of things. Humans drew pictures before they...
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 | 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?...
by Jason | Apr 12, 2016 | Big Ideas, Systems Thinking
This past weekend was the annual Toronto Agile Open Space hosted by the Toronto Agile Community. If you read about Agile at all, you’ve probably noticed the emphasis on processes and tools…which seems to be at odds with something that I just can’t...
by Jason | Mar 27, 2016 | Big Ideas
Last week we sponsored Communitech’s Design for Change session, hosted by Barry Katz. Barry opened with a few stories about ‘design’. I put design in quotes because that term can mean a few things. In this context, it doesn’t mean the look of...
