“Drive”, by Daniel Pink answers plainly the omnipresent question “What will make me happy and engaged in my life and career?”. What I have felt so strongly throughout my career is confronted head on in this book and the answers you uncover will likely surprise you. Like many, I typically would fall back to standard, […]
Adopting an Agile methodology blindly is hazardous. This post will describe my belief that “going Agile” requires a thoughtful, long term, evolutionary approach. To make my case, I want to discuss an Agile Adoption Failure Mode (or anti-pattern) that I’ve experienced and have come to call “Go Agile Early”. I call it this because of […]
Do your teams use the term “done”. Does it mean something? Does capital “D” (Done) mean more than small “d” (done)? Or do you use the dreaded (done-done-done) to indicate “done”? Here at GHQ, we have actually uncovered 3 states of “done-ness” on our Agile projects: Rare, Medium, and Well-Done. I’ve noticed that without exception, […]
Over the past year, my wife and I have shared idea – upon idea – about how we as a couple should be parenting our kids. In my house, I tend to generate ideas at breakneck speed. From how we speak to one another in front of the kids, to how we might engage the […]
“What can I do to move to the next level?” “How do I get promoted?” Two questions I hear with enough frequency that I feel compelled to have an answer rehearsed to make it through the awkward fumbling. Why is this question so difficult for me to field? This should be a question I LOVE […]