by Mike Edwards | Nov 15, 2014 | Agile, Kanban
When I’m teaching a team about Kanban I follow the premise of having different classes of service. I often start them with classes such as Standard, urgent, intangible or date driven. I’m not overly picky on what labels are applied as long as the team is...
by Mike Edwards | Nov 11, 2014 | Agile
I started writing this blog post before heading out to the Kitchener Remembrance Day Parade this morning. I am a drummer in the Ceremonial Band of the Waterloo Regional Police Service. My inspiration for writing this morning was to say why it was important to me to be...
by Mike Edwards | Nov 3, 2014 | Agile, Conferences, The Leadership Gift
Last week Chris Chapman and I did a presentation in Waterloo at the PMI-CTT Annual Symposium. For the past 5 years I have done numerous presentations at conferences and other professional events each year. Things have always gone well (although I’ve looked back at...
by Mike Edwards | Oct 27, 2014 | Agile, Conferences
Last week I participated in SDEC’14, put on by the Agile Community in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Winnipeg is a city located closer to the east side of Canada’s prairie provinces. The terrain there is relatively flat unlike the conference which is anything but...
by Mike Edwards | Oct 22, 2014 | Agile, Responsibility, The Leadership Gift
This morning I was flying from Winnipeg to Toronto on WestJet. They have Satellite TV on board, so it didn’t take long until every TV was tuned to the events happening in Ottawa. To say it was shocking to see this type of terrorist activity happening right here...
by Mike Edwards | Oct 20, 2014 | Agile, The Leadership Gift
I was out running this morning enjoying a beautiful fall morning run. I was thinking about the number of great wins I’ve celebrated in the last few months and how fortunate I’ve been. I have renewed clarity regarding my career goals, I am feeling...
