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What opportunity are you missing today?
There's been something that's been on my mind lately, and I can't quite get my head wrapped around an answer. I figured at this point, instead of just puzzling over it - the best thing I can do is just ask y'all what you think. So here goes... What's stopping you? Seriously, what's stopping you? We've been working on this "agile thing" now for quite some time. People have been trained on the mindset. PowerPoint decks, and playbooks have been distributed. Workshops have been conducted. Scrum and Kanban has been installed. Teams have been formed and registered them in a database. Jira and confluence have been rolled out. Dashboards full of metrics have been published. That means we're agile, right? Maybe, I guess. But for those of you who have started your agile team journey together, let me ask you this... do you feel agile? Does it feel like you are closely connected to the customer and business problems that you're helping to so...
A 15-minute a day habit that your teams will thank you for!
I get it - you're busy! It's the end of the year. Performance reviews are due (or late!) Holidays are coming up. Projects are in critical phases. End of year "spend it or lose it" time with budgets. Probably some annual planning work in there somewhere too! Busy, busy, busy! I can't think of a better time to pause, take a moment and reflect... "Am I being an empowering, transformation manager/leader, or am I being a command and control manager?" I can tell what you're thinking already! " Ugh Coach Dan! Are you serious??? Time to reflect, NOW? It's one of the busiest times of the year." Yup! This is the perfect time to pause and reflect... because if you're as busy as I think you probably are right now - you've probably been oper ating on "manager / leader auto-pilot," and you've been showing your true management colors! What better time to take a critical look at how you've been acting...
