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 working. With every story entered into Agile Alliance's Narrative Project, we seem to hit the same not so magic number--60% say that partnership is not really working very well. It can be seen in story titles like, "No trust from the middle," "Nobody on the same page," "Waterfall in agile clothing," and "Old mindset tr

For the last several years I’ve been exploring the topic of business agility, and I want to share some of my thoughts and insights about the subject. First off, a number of people have been relating this topic to the Agile software development movement. I’ve been guilty of doing this myself over the years, and I do believe that the Agile culture and mindset do play a strong role in the greater agility of organizations and companies. But I would like to put that aside for a

A week ago, I was in Oslo, Norway, for the OdinSTAR 2017 conference on software testing, and I had the privilege of teaching a great group of people in my Agile Leadership Workshop. The workshop is taught dynamically and I never expect for us to get through all of the materials in the class. So, in the very beginning the students sorted the backlog of potential topics and added key questions to establish the highest value for their four-hour investment. By the end of the cou