“Agile innovation methods have revolutionized information technology. Over the past 25 to 30 years success rates in software development improved quality, speed to market, and boosted motivation and productivity of IT teams” – Darrell K. Rigby,Jeff Sutherland, and Hirotaka Takeuchi 2016, Harvard Business Review. Business leaders should pay attention to the trending maturity of agile…

Recently I was invited to be a keynote speaker at my college alma mater Carroll University.  What an honor and I was nervous.  I was led to share with the diverse student body about the need to discover, nurture, and share your purpose.  This is a life long journey but can be achieve with intentional…

Staying the course requires a certain amount of grit to with stand the desire to run in the opposite direction.  The agile adoption and transformation is not for the faint of heart.  A certain amount of resilience is needed to endure the naked truth revealed about an organization as the agile adoption and transformation journey goes…

The agile practice promises a factor of 4 or more outcomes and benefits than traditional project management techniques.  This webinar explores the actions needed to achieve the 4x more phenomena with engaged teams.  The agile practice also removes silos and truly accomplishes stronger cross-functional team engagement. The economic value goes beyond financial measures and includes…

Micro teams have tradeoffs and benefits, but for me, smaller is bigger and the happiness indicator for teams are greater.