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Q&A: How to Scale with no Alignment on Value or Culture.

Q&A: How to Scale with no Alignment on Value or Culture.

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It’s time to answer another question that got voted up (in Slido.com) by other attendees after my talk at the Prodacity Conference. “How can we scale in an organization with no alignment on value or culture?” This is quite the question! Many large books could be written on this topic. My initial thought was, “I don’t think you can”. Upon further reflection I think there are tools available to tackle issues related to misalignment on value and culture. Tools that…

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Q&A: How to Convince Management to allow first steps?

Q&A: How to Convince Management to allow first steps?

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Prodacity conference attendees asked me a bunch of great questions at the end of my talk. I didn’t have time to answer all the questions live and decided to answer them in blog posts. One question that got voted up (in Slido.com) by other attendees was: “How to convince management to allow first steps (ex: lower WIP, allocate capacity for quality)?” Convincing others to do things differently means asking them to change the way they work – a difficult task…

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How to Effect Change

How to Effect Change

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The day the Obama’s were at the white house for the unveiling of their portraits, I was four blocks away attending the Prodacity conference. The conference was awesome due to many amazing speakers and a single track focus. First time on an airplane in more than three years, and first time speaking on stage at a live event, filled me with both overwhelm and relief. It felt like I needed to learn how to speak again in person and I…

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Flow Metrics: How to Get Started Measuring your Value Streams

Flow Metrics: How to Get Started Measuring your Value Streams

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In this post, I’ll cover flow metrics — why teams use them, what they are, and my tips for getting started. A balanced set of flow metrics can be a powerful tool for reflecting your reality as a team. It can also be an effective way to communicate your reality to business stakeholders, using language that means something to them. But first, here’s a quick synopsis of how I landed on the structure of this post. At the Agile2019 conference…

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Lean Agile Scotland: Getting Executive Buy-in for Architecture Changes

Lean Agile Scotland: Getting Executive Buy-in for Architecture Changes

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If someone told me six months ago that my Lean Agile Scotland presentation would include Judy Hopps and Jack Fox stuffed animals, I would have fallen off my chair. Submitting talks to conferences six months in advance sometimes means the particulars of my presentation will deviate from the original abstract. My initial intent was to present LeanKit‘s journey to gain alignment across business and technology teams by looking at work prioritization, team metrics, and communication etiquette. But the talk evolved to how LeanKit’s…

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