Expert Guidance for the Agile Organisation
Let’s consider a different scenario: the executive management team was excited about agile and actively encouraged the company to go agile. They had taken the company on an 18-month agile transformation journey. They focused on being agile and wanted to…
Read More There are more than fight or flight options, aren’t there?
Leadership Memo 2020-4 Last time, we were addressing this question: “How do I know that my employees are working instead of slacking off, watching Netflix all day?” We talked about trust being the most important. Trust the people who work…
Continuing with the same topic that I started, let’s consider one last scenario: He was the head of product development, and he never outright said no to agile. He thought agile is a development thing, nothing to do with him.…
Read More Would you think that “blasé, nonchalant” are the synonyms for resistance?
Continuing with the same topic that I started last time, let’s consider another scenario: This time, the CEO was very enthusiastic in the beginning when I told him what an agile organization meant. He liked what I told him, and…
Let's consider a scenario: This one company hired me as head of program management to roll out agile. When I tried to set up cross-functional teams for better delivery, my boss, the Chief Product Officer (CPO), told me that my…
