5 Common (and wrong) Expectations of a SAFe® Transformation
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Leading and Investing In Teams
I have spent my entire adult life learning and adjusting my approaches to leading people and teams. From my youth, until today I have watched leaders, observed how they lead, interact and develop people and teams. How they build teams and how they adjust teams. I have studied multiple approaches to team development from the […]
Empiricism in the Age of COVID19: Lessons from Pre-SAFe® PI Planning (Part II)
Part II https://blog.iconagility.com/empiricism-in-the-age-of-covid19-lessons-from-pre-safe-pi-planning-part-2
An Agilist’s Journey Away From Face-to-Face
So once again, our world as we have known it, has suddenly changed. Almost overnight we went from being present, in person, and available in the room, to now being sheltered in place and not sure what happens next. As someone who has always tried to be present and available our new world changed how […]
Empiricism in the Age of COVID19: Learning and Preparation for SAFe® PI Planning (Part 1)
https://blog.iconagility.com/empiricism-in-the-age-of-covid19-part-1-learning-and-preparation
Supporting Remote Ceremonies
Over the last several weeks, I have supported a number of remote ceremonies and these are some helpful tips I am providing to Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters and fellow coaches. They are also downloadable here. Let me know what your tips are! Some helpful reminders for remote PI Ceremonies: Note: Share these guidelines with […]
Getting Better in Isolation
If you are #socialdistancing and I hope you are, a great read to pick up to develop your individual skills and create personal ‘to-do’ list for improving your #leadershipskills is a book by William Cohen. It is not new. It is in fact, timeless (IMHO). For anyone who has been part of my #mentoring in […]
Applying the Agile Mindset in Times of Uncertainty
It’s been a while since I posted publicly due to <insert many excuses here> That said, let’s get to it! What’s happening in your world? Anything new? Obviously, EVERYONE is impacted by the spread of the virus, COVID-19, and daily life is a disrupted mess at varying levels of insanity. I though now might be […]