I recently returned from the LeSS Conference in Berlin and the Global Scrum Gathering in Amsterdam. Along the way I participated in training on Beyond Budgeting (with Bjarte Bogsnes) and Designing Agile Organisations (with Cesario Ramos). After not travelling to a conference since early 2020, it was a fantastic learning experience featuring many of the world’s…
I was heavily involved in organising the first five Scrum Alliance Regional Scrum Gatherings in Australia from 2013 to 2018 under the brand “Scrum Australia”. I stepped away from organising Scrum Australia conferences in 2019 when the commercial vehicle for it was sold to Innodev. This year I have been really surprised by how exciting…
Adapting to change has become personal The Scrum Master role was already hard enough. Then the COVID-19 pandemic sent us home from the office and suddenly Scrum Masters are trying to lead team development between people scattered around homes and office locations who interact mainly via text in instant messaging. This sudden change from face-to-face…
The COVID-19 crisis has prompted some organisations to make rapid adaptations in the direction of their business. This goes beyond changing the content of their product to radical changes in the products they offer and the markets they serve. Nimbleness in such spaces might be referred to as “business agility”.
At the start of a new decade, it seems apt to pause and reflect about how we are approaching change in the workplace. If you were hampering the effectiveness of the Agile adoption through the words that you use, would you want to know about that? After all, the language you use is something that…
Have you ever heard someone saying things that resonate with you, but only later realised whet they really mean in reality for you personally? That’s the experience I had going from Michael and Audree Sahota’s CAL I to their CAL II. I, and a group of leaders from across Australia, took Michael’s first ever CAL…
What’s the primary problem? Q: What’s the biggest stumbling block for Agile adoptions? A: Organisational Culture at odds with Agile. The evidence is clear that culture is the primary problem. The annual State of Agile report shows this year after year. I see culture colouring the way organisations interpret and implement Agile every time I…