It seems to me that acting with agility is more about saying “no” than it is about saying “yes”. And maybe that’s the bottom line of why agile transformation is hard. #counterintuitive #countercultural #discomfort

Originally posted on 2021-12-10 at 01:40 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6874885551330349056

Where does the energy for change come from? My hypothesis is informed by an HSD idea. We need the energy that comes from “difference”, and then we combine that with “insight”, stemming from tolerating enough of the difference for long enough to spark something new in us and between us. My analogy is this: if you connect the two poles of a battery directly with a wire, you get little use out of the inherent energy in the difference between the poles. You need something that resists the energy difference enough for something to flow usefully. Like a light bulb or an actual resistor.

Originally posted on 2021-12-08 at 20:28 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6874444496738877440

It’s too bad that worse dot com is occupied by a domain squatter. Imagine the fun you could have with hosting the recording of the better dot com layoff zoom call on worse dot com…

Originally posted on 2021-12-08 at 15:25 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6874368297488457728

I have it on good authority that Scott Showalter has two complimentary spots in his Agile Career Accelerator Magnetic Resume masterclass. If you’re looking for work in the Agile field, and you’re short on funds, I highly recommend you get in touch with him to get one of those spots. Let him know you heard it from me. Here’s more about the class: https://lnkd.in/gdw3__PH

Originally posted on 2021-12-04 at 03:44 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6872742293741432833

A song for you by one of my favorite stingers:

“The sun, the moon and the stars
They make the wind blow
It took me twenty years to understand
Lost to me are how the lives of friends go
Like autumn leaves in Oklahoma wind

But it made me strong to be on my own
It never did me no harm to live all alone
Oh, but now and then
In the colour of the evening
Drunken in a barroom
With a fan turning
I’ve come to miss a few

This afternoon was cloudy and the rains came
Third day of my first day San Miguel
Seems lately that I’m doubling as Storm bait
I’ve been followed like a shadow through the dell

But it made me strong to be on my own
It never did me no harm to live all alone
Oh, but now and then
In the colour of the evening
Drunken in a barroom
With a fan turning
I’ve come to miss a few

Dear friends and relations
See what I have done
I’ve gathered all my fingers in one place
They breathe a breath that’s deadly stale
Since they tooled a song for me
I guess mechanics never really set the pace

Cause I’m back and I’m strong
I’m here on my own
It never did me no harm
To live all alone
Oh, but now and then
In the colour of the evening
Drunken in a barroom
With a fan turning
I’ve come to miss a few

The sun, the moon and the stars
They make the wind blow
It took me twenty years to understand
But lost to me are how the lives of friends go
Like autumn leaves in Oklahoma wind

…oh, but now and then
It’s in the colour of the evening
Drunken in a barroom
With a fan turning
I’ll come to miss a few”

Nanci Griffith – The Sun, Moon And Stars

Originally posted on 2021-12-03 at 06:49 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6872426586105368576

Something came up for me today – a thought about why agile transformation efforts might lose steam. There’s a lot in agile journeys about what I will call “delivery transparency” – teams being asked to be open about and improve how they complete work. There’s less about “value transparency” – leaders being open about explaining the value of things to be built and why they are valuable (and what dimensions of value are being considered). I think that asymmetry might lead to less than desirable outcomes.

Originally posted on 2021-12-03 at 02:29 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6872361210046771200

This “Black Friday”, instead of spending money on myself or some imagined “deal” on a thing I don’t need, I just donated to
@SavetheChildren
. Join me: https://lnkd.in/g33_AnXx

Originally posted on 2021-11-26 at 14:47 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6870010025277042688

I suspect that one of the reasons for most of us having “parts” to our personality is that at key parts of our lives something significant happened that got “locked” in our brain via memory. When we encounter those things again, our brain transports us back to the time of that “locking” / encoding, evoking who and what we “were” at that time.

Originally posted on 2021-11-23 at 13:03 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6868896795926372352

I’ve heard it said that scrum is about removing excuses for finger-pointing from a team. That might feel hugely uncomfortable to the team, but removing excuses is probably an impotant “how” for getting to high performance.

Originally posted on 2021-11-21 at 04:37 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6868044703523319808

I wonder if there are really two parts to any work. The task and reflection on the task. And what happens if they are out of balance?

Originally posted on 2021-11-21 at 04:29 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6868042615879823360