Getting yourself aligned with your day is by far the most important ritual to help you take control of your time for maximum productivity and balance. This...

In this video, we cover the basics of how to visualize and manage your work to achieve flow. This includes the basic setup of your journal to take advantage...

Innovation programs within companies have fallen into the trap of chronic misuse of the word.

Day after day, the impact of the COVID-19 has been expanding. My partner’s part-time volunteer work at the Children’s Relief Nursery at LifeWorksNW had to sh...

A few weeks back, a good friend Elizabeth Hendrickson tweeted about her approach to learning as being quite non-linear. Like her, this has been my approach t...

I have been a professional manager, director, and CEO for about two decades now, and I have seen some great progress towards better gender equality in techno...

It is unclear when the phrase “stop admiring the problem” came into my leadership tool kit, but I have been using it to improve my personal and business life...

Sustainable development has always been in the Agile Principles, and, though this was mainly focused on creating a consistent pace of value delivery by not p...

I am a strong believer that sound organizational models are the key to a company's success and its viability in the complex world.

It is hard to believe another year and decade has come to an end.  For myself, the last decade was very much a time of introspection and change.  Over this p...

Passive-aggressive behaviors kill productivity and need to be addressed before it destroys productivity

A few weeks back, I was at the Agile Testing Days conference in Germany, and I had a great conversation with one of the attendees about what they learned. Th...

A few weeks ago, I got into an interesting discussion at the eXperience Agile event over in Portugal about whether Agile helps or kills innovation. I found t...

Ray Arell goes to Agile Open Northwest to see the benefits to business in attending open conferences.

Ray Arell in his Agile Alliance staff role visits with Eric Abelen, Agile Coach at ING Bank. Together in this short video, they look at the ING's House of Ag...

We got a copy of our CEO's talk at Agile Testing Days 2018 about dealing with unknowns. We hope you enjoy it. Abstract: Nothing rattles a company more than...

That's something that David Hussman said to me a few years ago. He loved jamming with people on new ideas, and I had the honor of being in a number of those ...

I just got off a call with another transformation coach who said his company is moving away from their transformation work, and they are going to be revertin...

Despite what some people may say about Agile being just for software development, Agile does work for other types of product development and support systems...

Over the last couple of months, I have been collecting stories from Agile development teams and management looking for trends in how well that partnership is...