Knowledge and Knowledge Management

There is a lot of talk about Communities of Practice (CoP).  You may have already heard about something called a Center of Excellence (CoE). While the 2 entities have common goals and objectives and generally support improvement throughout the organization, they are targeted towards different groups and ways of interacting. As background, it is important …

What makes agile, Agile?

The early founders of the ‘agile movement’ we’re just people who had been involved in solution development and just spent time thinking about how they could do their jobs better.  They spoke plainly and tried to use basic concepts that could guide their decision making and be repeatable. Often in our daily lives we will …

Discipline vs. Process

In many organization when they decide to do an agile transformation it is typically to do either a process swap or ‘agile’ or scrum for waterfall.  Usually this is done with the noble goal of producing ‘business agility’.  The transformation should not be about the business, it should be about the people. This misrepresentation is …