by Mike Edwards | Jun 10, 2014 | Agile, Behaviour, People, The Leadership Gift
Trust. Dictionary.com defines trust as “belief that someone or something is reliable, good, honest, effective, etc.” Can you imagine functioning in your day to day life without trust? What if you didn’t trust your mechanic to fix your car? What if...
by Mike Edwards | Sep 24, 2013 | Agile, Behaviour, Responsibility, The Leadership Gift
Doing Agile? Being Agile? Take your pick I’ve heard both arguments. I’ve talked to companies who ‘do Agile’. When I consider where these companies come from they’ve made good progress in advancing their results. Then there’s the...
by Mike Edwards | Sep 4, 2013 | Agile, Behaviour, Conferences, Responsibility, The Leadership Gift
The concept of dedicated to one task at a time is not supported. They won’t change. Because the CEO manages with fear! Our egos are bigger and more than the company goals. My leadership team no longer believes in it. My manager has to assign work to the team....
by Mike Edwards | Aug 12, 2013 | Behaviour, Communication, Conferences, People, The Leadership Gift
We need to drive change so they will give better results. Through this change we’re going to create synergies and get rid of the dead wood. Today I heard a new one: We need to force them to do the training for their own good … to aid in adoption. When you...
by Mike Edwards | Aug 11, 2013 | Agile, Conferences, Kanban, Lean, The Leadership Gift
Last week I attended Agile 2013. This is my first time attending an Agile Alliance conference. My compliments go out to everyone involved with putting it together. In particular I’d like to thank all the volunteers who gave up their time to help us lost souls...
by Mike Edwards | Aug 8, 2013 | Behaviour, People, Responsibility, The Leadership Gift
In my last post I talked about managers and front line workers confronting themselves. I want to share a little bit of my story to help illustrate further. In a former life as a manager of a development team I was faced with many things I believed were impeding...
