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We are in the digital age.  As Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella noted, “Every company is now a software company.”  And we’re past debating the value of lean-agile methods in software development and business execution.  Even as we continue to learn better ways of working using modern tools, the dominant question has become how to successfully scale these approaches to large systems and whole organizations.  Mik Kersten[1] asserts that, “Those who master large-scale software delivery will

We talk a lot about the collective power of the group. The whole is greater than the parts.  Believe in the ability of the team. These are great principles. And yet I have always sensed they were somehow incomplete, not the exact story. I can only say this in retrospect, after a recent moment of clarity.  It happened while I was sitting in on one of Marsha Acker’s virtual book tour events for her new

We’ve been at agile for a while now, long enough to know that coaching high performance is not so easy. We’ve accrued a great deal of experience and a number of theories and methods have been offered up.  The question is, are there any simplicities in all this that we’ve missed, or relative importances that would help us better order and leverage all this data? I think so. Here’s what I have observed: Purpose is

Great presentation tonight by Jurgen at DCSUG on the innovation lifecycle. A fresh look with great clarity. Highly recommend his new book!

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of believe, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” This of course is Charles Dickens, speaking as a fellow Agilist about our current times.[1]