To be capable of effectively directing work and leading improvement, management need to have a reality based deep understanding of how value is created and what impediments exist. Often, management will talk about the importance of having engagement from their staff....
In many, if not most, circumstances, insisting that a team must come up with a custom method is harmful. At best, it is a false expectation and at worst designed to create a dependency on consulting skills. For many, if not most, teams, a recipe based approach is...
Apologies for the recent lack of posts. This is because in January, I will be moving to Sweden to join Håkan Forss at Avega in a Lean Coaching role. Right now, I’m in the middle of trying to cleanly close out my current role, while working on all the logistics...
As of 6th November 2013, I’m certified as a Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant. The SAFe Program Consultant Training and Certification course is for internal agile change agents and external consultants. It provides the tools to implement agile programs...
Best Practises, Frameworks and Methods are the narrative tropes of transformation. Weave your telling into your culture.
Putting out fires is not improvement. Finding a point out of control, finding the special cause and removing it, is only putting the process back to where it was in the first place. It is not improvement of the process. W Edwards Deming One of the problems that besets...
This was my second year presenting at Lean Agile Scotland. Thanks once again to Chris McDermott for putting on a conference single-handedly that somehow managed to be even better than last year’s. For me as a constrained conference-goer rather than a regular...
