Peter Drucker once said, “the only sustainable competitive advantage is a company’s ability to keep transforming itself.” This is sound...

Many years back, at the start of a large project, we quickly realized that we were facing a critical problem that, if not fixed, would...

Working from home or another remote location is not a new concept. High-tech companies have been doing this over the last decade, and it...

Welcome to 2022! I thought an excellent way to start the new year would be to take a few minutes and review the basics of Agile. This...

Scaled Agile Frameworks have gained popularity among organizations worldwide over the last half-decade, with many major businesses...

The word transformation has become an overused and cliché term in business today. Few companies undergo any dramatic change in such...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Sustainable development has always been in the Agile Principles, and, though this was mainly focused on creating a consistent pace of...

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...

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...

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

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