Many of us know what micro-lending is. What would micro-philanthropy look like? Is it the same as the often-practiced year-end donation wave? Or could it be something different entirely?

Originally posted on 2021-12-17 at 23:36 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6877753335001305088

You know that old saying “Be careful what you wish for – you just might get it.” For Agile transformations (and leaders of such) it turns into “Be careful what you wish for – you just might have to do it.”

Originally posted on 2021-12-15 at 20:23 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6876980161481449472

So, dear fellow agilists, where are all the apprenticeships we would actually need to develop ourselves in-situ, rather than in-class?

Originally posted on 2021-12-15 at 05:28 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6876754740219285504

You would think that having to pay someone to come and snake out the laundry drain pipes multiple times in the course of a few months would be irritating, but I find myself surprisingly grateful for it, because I now am in control of who I call for the work, and am not dependent on someone else to do the selection and calling.

Originally posted on 2021-12-14 at 04:45 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6876381493749534721

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