Introduction  The list of things that can threaten an organization’s success is long: inappropriate tools, technological issues, project management frameworks that are not fit for purpose or are not followed, failure to respond to customer needs and market changes or a business culture that does not fit the purpose of...

Introduction Coaching is hard. It’s challenging emotionally and intellectually. It’s challenging behaviorally as well: coaching presents us with difficult choices and tests our alignment with our values.Coaching is hard no matter what your role is, whether you are a Scrum Master, an Agile Coach, a Change Manager, an Executive Coach,...

Introduction Agile and digital transformations require changes in: delivery frameworks, tools, business processes and organizational structure AND, work-related behaviours and habits of employees. 2. is the harder part of the change. Coaching is used to aid this, but most coaching methods are not evidence-based so they may not work or...

When to employ Agile and when not to. Can Agile and Waterfall work together? Introduction This article is the 2nd installment in a series of two articles focusing on understanding different problem complexities and learning to select the optimal strategy for solving a specific problem type.Last time we started by...

When to employ Agile and when not to. Can Agile and Waterfall work together? Introduction Rate how much your business processes, organizational structure and culture help you develop and deliver the product(s) or service(s) your organization is working on, using a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is fully...

Planning can create the illusion of certainty Bob asked Steven to create a plan, to provide a time and cost estimate for the second part of his project. Bob was a senior member of PMO, feeding information to the steering committee of Steven’s project. He had decision-making authority and formal...