At any given point in time corporate executives are mired in the problems and opportunities of modern day business. For executives in Fortune 500 companies, the following list represents the top 10…
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Posted by Jeff Hayes on January 29, 2024 in Coaching
Context... agility, coaching, innovation, leadership, sustainability
Posted by Jeff Hayes on November 29, 2022 in Agile
You may have noticed that I no longer refer to the development team, or Dev Team, in the title of this series and this is for a good reason. Ken Schwaber and…
Context... coaching, communication, environment, productivity, respect, teams, trust
Posted by Jeff Hayes on July 6, 2020 in Agile
The last two articles focused on Scrum team performance as a whole and rudimentary skills for dev team performance, the first of three requirements of a development team to help it achieve…
Posted by Jeff Hayes on May 8, 2020 in Agile
Before we get back to our discussion on Scrum team performance, let’s take a look at a real world example of how agile works versus how waterfall works (or doesn’t). Coronavirus and…
Posted by Jeff Hayes on March 6, 2020 in Agile
Who benefits from a Scrum team that is formed with a clear understanding of the rules, roles, events and artifacts of Scrum, accelerates its productivity in the short term, and continues to…
Context... agility, coaching, productivity, scrum, teams
Posted by Jeff Hayes on January 23, 2020 in Agile
Generally speaking, Scrum development teams benefit from specific performance improvement processes. And who better to help teams through such processes than an agile team coach? This post presents the critical skills needed…
Posted by Jeff Hayes on April 23, 2019 in Agile
What does it take for an organization to become “fully agile?” The short answer is desire: The desire to… Improve customer satisfaction Engage employees more fully Produce greater value for the organization…
Context... agility, culture, environment, leadership, scrum, trust
Posted by Erin Quick-Laughlin on April 9, 2019 in Agile
Are there bits and pieces of your company that suffer from “Never been done before, and therefore not a viable option for us?” The operations best practice entitled DevOps may fall into…
Context... agility, devops, innovation, productivity, scrum
Posted by Jeff Hayes on March 27, 2019 in Agile
How does a company identify and hire an excellent Scrum master (SM)? Finding the right kind of person assures an organization that it can exceed its average return-on-investment on “projects;” see Erin’s…
Context... agility, culture, environment, leadership, scrum, servant leader, strengths
Posted by Erin Quick-Laughlin on March 11, 2019 in Agile
In the world of product innovation, an agile framework provides much greater value than traditional development methodologies can offer. Jeff introduced this concept in Agile Provides the Greatest Value to Organizations. In…
Context... agility, feedback, innovation, scrum
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