Last week, I thought I’d have a quiet one, get some writing done and study for some exams. For once I wasn’t back-to-back with coaching and training and my only real plan was to attend a course as a participant as part of my personal development. Earlier in the week, I’d spent time with [...]
“Be the change you want to see” – Gandhi Last week, I ran an agile workshop with a group of project managers and business leaders. We discussed the usual suspects: agile framework, practices, estimation, planning and monitoring, with a heavy emphasis placed on agile values and principles. Whilst the group easily understood the concepts, [...]
Happy 2018! At this time of the year, many of us are thinking about New Year’s resolutions: get fit; spend more time with family; lose weight; quit <insert bad habit here>; do more <insert good habit here>; save money; learn a new language etc. Or maybe your goals are work related: complete project x; achieve [...]
What is agile? Agile is a mindset. What is a mindset? A set of assumptions, methods, or notions held by a group of people that motivates these people to continue to adopt or accept prior behaviours, choices, or tools. Simply put, it is a way of thinking about things that is shared by the group such that [...]