Thoughts
YOU COULD NOT STEP TWICE INTO THE SAME RIVER
A collection of writing on agile principles, coaching, and leadership. A place to explore the connections between our everyday world and work life. Rarely is there truth here - as my thinking and perspective evolves.
Why many “Agile Transformations” are Doomed!
Look out for standardization and treating ‘agile’ as the goal.
Billy Goat
“All too often people and organizations are either unwilling or not enabled to learn new techniques in their core skills.”
Scrum Alliance - Progress on Transforming the World of Work
“We need the customers of the organizations that use Scrum to see the value of Scrum and WANT their products developed using Scrum … ”
Catalytic Poisoning: Coaches and Chemicals
“Knowing when you, as a catalyst, have been inhibited is one of the many coaching skills necessary to ensure that your clients’ transformations continue to evolve.”
An-Isotropic Scaling
“… we need to keep focused on the problem we are trying to solve, rather than simply uniformly scaling a system that works in its current situation.”
Coaching Symbiosis
“Coaching is an unending journey for both parties, and if you're not learning from the people you work with, you're probably not coaching.”
Musical Scales
“… it’s about the symbiotic and continuous exchange with people I trust and admire.”
Mindset over Mechanics
“Effectively, without helping change the mindset and consciousness (=culture!) of the people and organizations we work with, our efforts to transform the world of work will never achieve their potential.”
The Satir Interaction Model and Hand Reading
“Teaching yourself to be disciplined about progressing through these steps helps greatly with minimizing miscommunication.”
Applying the Dreyfus Learning Model to Focus your Coaching Approach
“We've discovered (as the model predicts) that skipping this stage of learning can lead to problems absorbing and implementing the philosophies and principles of the agile manifesto.”
Golf, Poker and Software
“… they tend to revert back to old, less than desirable ways. For most people this transition of skills to procedural memory takes disciplined, directed effort.”
Adventures in Distributed Agile
“Practicing iterative/incremental development in a distributed environment requires modifications to some of the basic agile techniques.”