It’s not discovery. It’s discoveries. If you were asked, how does the company you work for make money? Break it down. Whether it’s an early startup living off of seed funding or a corporate empire running multi-billion dollar enterprises across the globe, what part do you play in helping your company thrive as a business? Some responses might be, “…

Is failing fast effective or reckless, especially without understanding the pattern that led to the failure to begin with? We create goals. We call them outcomes. We call them objectives. We measure key performance indicators on reaching these goals. We reach these goals to continuously improve. We continuously improve to reach our personal vision.…

“It’s a #mindset.” Is it though? Do old #habits really die hard, or are we dying each day with them? Let’s think about the #narrative we tell ourselves in the perpetual struggle to form new habits and the struggle to break bad ones. “I’ll do better tomorrow. Today is not the day.” “I’ll do better next month. This month was a lot.” “I’ll do better n…

So, is it really SAFe to Fail? Let’s dig deeper… What systemic problems do organizations face to consider adopting Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)? What kind of financial structure supports SAFe? What kind of incentive structure supports SAFe? How much variability and ambiguity of the work does SAFe allow? What measure of adaptiveness does SAFe allow…

What better way to end 2021 than the much anticipated Season 2 Finale: Disrupters Assemble. With nothing short of profound introspection and prolific disruption. Agile Disrupted brings back major speakers, David A. Brown, John Augustin, Matt Miller, and Jason Kerney from Season 2 for one last showdown called #ChangeMyMind on these eight topics: Sea…

Agile Interviews. Enough said. When it comes to the organizations that carry their own perception of what being Agile means, in accordance to their own business model, their own operating model, their own cultural values & principles and ultimately their own brand, how can we be certain that we are being matched appropriately? We don't. Until the a…

Two words: Hard. Conversations. When comes to all the professional & personal relationships that fill our lives with fulfillment, or perhaps even dread, do we really accept the responsibility of conflict management? Do we live by the values and principles we carry, especially when conflict arises? Do people avoid hard conversations out of cowardice…

Tis the season to be horrific and ghoulish, let's talk about corporate horror & trauma. Have you ever been ghosted by a company before Corporate ghosting is when a company completely cuts off all forms of corporate communication with you without prior notice or explanation. Plot twist: this can happen to absolutely any professional in their career.…

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Alice. She discovered a world that disrupted her entire perception of reality. It was called Wonderland. If we look at Alice as this beacon of hope and the personification of curiosity & courage, do organizations exist in the Agile world that we live in or are they hidden gateways to Wonderland? What happens…

So, how good are you at prioritizing what you need to get done at a sustainable pace? How often do you realistically say "yes" to last minute commitments that come up and how often do you say "no" to promises that you know you can't keep? Do you find yourself saying the following: I'm going to sacrifice sleep, to get all this done. I'm going to sac…

How can we be inherently done, if we didn't understand what readiness was in the first place? At what point does the obsession over output, efficiency, predictability, and misguided deadlines overpower our actualization of readiness to begin with? Is the Agile Team ready to be launched? Have we done our due diligence to determine if a product is wo…

Is the pursuit of mastery really a linear destination we hope to reach one day or a beacon in the night sky telling us where north is? Is mastery a box we check for ourselves to feel worthy or an unsolved mystery we yearn to see the other side of? Perception is quite the qualifier. It’s up to us to recognize our own perception of the mastery we see…

What happens when a social media app goes viral and suddenly hours of your day have disappeared? What happens when a virus hits an entire species and you find yourself getting acclimated to regular video calls in your home? What will happen to us when we figure out our future residence in outer space? Our lives will fundamentally change. One person…

What happens when you go through eight powerful episodes with different speakers on controversial topics that often get overlooked in the Agile space? Well, what you don’t do is wait for opportunities to manifest on their own. You create your own opportunities for meaningful change when and where you see them. Agile Disrupted brings back major spea…

How would you describe your typical work day? Honestly. Is the work that you do each day actually meaningful? Or is your current role sucking the life out of you? Have you become complacent & unmotivated? Do you feel underutilized? Do you feel unappreciated? If so, was it always like this? No, of course not. Your first day at any organization is th…

What if I told you that tomorrow is going to be a day of radical & tragic change? Tomorrow is the day you experience a horrible stroke, and are now navigating through a wheel chair, while you undergo intense physical therapy to regain your sense of mobility again. You'd feel profoundly devastated. The same set of stairs that you climbed a countless…

How do we come up with ideas? Think about your last memory of experiencing recognition, or even ridicule, from someone about your particular idea. Was it a fleeting thought or the result of a perfectly packaged set of circumstances? The very definition of an “idea” has countless interpretations. When you hear the opening question for a remarkable F…

As professionals in the Agile realm, how do you explain your role to your friends and family? When you share your official title as "Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developer, Agile Consultant, etc.,” people who don’t currently work in an Agile space won’t understand what you're talking about. So, we pause for a brief moment, to gather ourselves and f…

If I had to ask you how many times you’ve been betrayed? Could you come up with a number? What’s the first memory that comes to your mind? That leap of faith you took in trusting someone, and ended up feeling foolish in the end. Did you recover? Did that relationship recover? And isn’t that the irony of trust? The only way to know if you can trust …