OKR Leadership: A safe culture of learning

Posted on April 25, 2022.

OKRs require the psychological safety for teams to be wrong and a culture that celebrates the learning they bring from their product discovery work.

What is Agile?

Posted on January 3, 2022.

You can laud the idea and still be critical of the implementation. That is the true spirit of Agile. Here’s how I came around to this idea.

Inspect and adapt, with respect

Posted on August 2, 2021.

We all know go to the gemba tell us to go and see and we inspect and adapt. But there’s another part to it — showing respect to the people we seek to improve. Here’s why.

One of the many diagrams that explain SAFe - the Scaled Agile Framework

SAFe is Not Agile

Posted on May 10, 2021.

SAFe - the scaled agile framework - attempts to bring agility and scrum to large enterprises. In my experience, it fails and is not agile.