by Mike Edwards | Jan 9, 2015 | Behaviour, The Leadership Gift
It’s time to stop living in denial! I volunteered to write this post for Spark the Change as I thought it would be easy. I’ve been working on this post for several weeks now and struggling to find the words to help explain denial. I started to wonder...
by Mike Edwards | Dec 9, 2014 | Agile, Project Management, The Leadership Gift
For more than 10 years of my career I worked hard at being the best Project/Program Manager ever. I could bring a team together and work with them to devise the best plan ever. We would start by defining the scope of our project, then evolve this to our work breakdown...
by Mike Edwards | Nov 28, 2014 | Agile, People, The Leadership Gift
Imagine you are a manager of a department, and you just fired someone who was speaking out against the process they were asked to follow. I’m sure it was justified as they just didn’t seem like a cultural fit to your image of the department. Instead of...
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 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...
