May 112 minDaily Planning with Kanban JournalingGetting yourself aligned with your day is by far the most important ritual to help you take control of your time for maximum productivity...
May 111 minIntroduction to Personal Agility with Kanban JournalingIn this video, we cover the basics of how to visualize and manage your work to achieve flow. This includes the basic setup of your journ...
May 21 minAccelerating from Opportunities to High Value SolutionsInnovation programs within companies have fallen into the trap of chronic misuse of the word.
Mar 172 minCoronavirus: Kindness and support is our way forwardDay 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 L...
Mar 163 minFalling Face-First into LearningA few weeks back, a good friend Elizabeth Hendrickson tweeted about her approach to learning as being quite non-linear. Like her, this ha...
Mar 123 minFailing at Gender Equality in TechI have been a professional manager, director, and CEO for about two decades now, and I have seen some great progress towards better gende...
Feb 102 minHow to Stop Admiring Your ProblemsIt is unclear when the phrase “stop admiring the problem” came into my leadership tool kit, but I have been using it to improve my person...
Feb 103 min Sustainability and AgileSustainable development has always been in the Agile Principles, and, though this was mainly focused on creating a consistent pace of val...
Jan 86 minViable Organisations with BeerI am a strong believer that sound organizational models are the key to a company's success and its viability in the complex world.
Jan 34 minBe Kind to YourselfIt 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 ...
Dec 21, 20193 minDealing with Passive-Aggressive BehaviorsPassive-aggressive behaviors kill productivity and need to be addressed before it destroys productivity
Nov 27, 20194 minYour Request to Improve is Denied!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 w...
Oct 29, 20193 minIs Agile Killing or Helping Innovation?A few weeks ago, I got into an interesting discussion at the eXperience Agile event over in Portugal about whether Agile helps or kills i...
Feb 22, 20191 minWhy your business should attend an open space conferenceRay Arell goes to Agile Open Northwest to see the benefits to business in attending open conferences.
Feb 5, 20191 minA look at ING Banks House of AgileRay Arell in his Agile Alliance staff role visits with Eric Abelen, Agile Coach at ING Bank. Together in this short video, they look at t...
Feb 5, 20191 minDealing with UnknownsWe 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...
Aug 20, 20183 min“I Dig the Great Minds Idea”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 i...
Apr 19, 20184 minWhat is killing your transformation? Perhaps you were never transforming in the first place.I just got off a call with another transformation coach who said his company is moving away from their transformation work, and they are ...
Apr 16, 20183 minNot just for software: Agile for Embedded SystemsDespite what some people may say about Agile being just for software development, Agile does work for other types of product development...
Jul 26, 20173 minHigh Business Agility: Still Hard to Reach For Most CompaniesOver the last couple of months, I have been collecting stories from Agile development teams and management looking for trends in how well...