Year: 2023
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2021 Schulich MBA Agile Presentation
In early 2021 I was asked to give a talk about Agile to an MBA class from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. I never published the slides online, but now that I’m more actively blogging again, I thought others might benefit from them. This talk included details of a large…
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Making Change Where Change is Possible
I used to think the best way to go about change was to focus first on the biggest problems hurting a team. The basic premise of this approach was that even though not everything may be perfect, as long as we address the most significant obstacles a team is having, we could live with the…
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Empowering Teams Instead of Telling Them What to Do
In the context of organizational change, whether it’s part of a formal “Agile Transformation” or just trying to make things better, one behaviour I frequently have to deal with is when Directors or VPs, who I’ll refer to as management, tell me something along the lines of “The teams need to do this.” They might…
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Test-Driven Goals: A Scalable and Effective Pattern
I’ve been working with a team and trying to help them answer questions about their plan for the upcoming year. Even if the team can answer these questions, there’s another that always seems to pose a challenge: “What are you trying to achieve?” To help them answer the question of what they want to achieve,…
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2022 Recap
The year passed by quickly, and it’s challenging to come up with a list of my accomplishments over the past year. Aside from some other minor achievements that I won’t bother listing, only a little stands out about 2022. In any case, I’m proud of the work that I did. Workshops Since the pandemic started,…
Flow Focused 