For those that have been on the Agile journey for a while this post will hopefully come as no surprise, but if you are fairly new on the journey I wanted to take the opportunity to clarify what I feel is a common misconception about Agile. In the early days of Agile we made it …
For a while now I have been discombombulated. The cause of my confusion and desperation has been around the issue of management. I am not talking about Leadership. Leaders are people (whether in a position of hierarchy or not) that naturally foster an environment of collaboration, understanding and consensus. No, what I am talking about …
The Smithsonian is the world’s largest museum and research complex with hundreds of affiliated museums. The Stoosonian is much the same but switch up museum with people and thought leaders. It could be the collective noun for people focussed on building such a network focussed on leadership in the same guise that the Agile Alliance …
Ideagoras. A beautiful word, but even more beautiful when you get to the substance of it. In Greece, 600BC an agora was an open place of assembly where trade occurred. In today’s world trade is big business and the growing trend of this business is shifting to the Internet at break-neck speeds. The agora was the political heart of …
All my blogs are highly self-opinionated. This one is going to be even further out there. We have all hopefully had a good look at Daniel Pink’s amazing work on motivation. But despite this knowledge how do most organisations still currently manage motivation and performance? They almost always still have yearly bonuses. Maybe this is …
It was with some trepidation that I took at look at Seth Godin’s Tribes book. This was primarily due to mixed reports from friends whom had read it. It was so mixed that it was pretty evenly split down the middle 50% loved it, 50% hated it. Those that didn’t rate it felt that it …
I posted recently about my fascination with online role playing games and how some of what intrigues me is around the area of incentives. This has had a bit of attention in the Agile space with Daniel Pink covering off motivation in his book ‘Drive’ but for the quick versions you can see his TED …
Agile Forest 