The challenges leaders face today aren’t new — but they feel different. Decisions that once felt grounded now carry more uncertainty, even when leaders are drawing on experience that has served them…
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Posted by Jeff Hayes on January 29, 2024 in Leadership in Complexity
Context... sense-making, systems thinking, uncertainty
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, teams
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…
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, leadership, scrum
Posted by Jeff Hayes on February 13, 2019 in Agile
Agile software development is iterative and incremental in nature as I discussed previously in Agile Methods Provide the Greatest Value to Organizations. Its earliest manifestation is probably in work performed by IBM…
Posted by Jeff Hayes on July 31, 2012 in Agile
What does culture — that quality in groups of people that govern what we believe and how we behave — have to do with “getting things done”? And by extension, what does…
Context... culture
Posted by Jeff Hayes on May 20, 2012 in Agile
During a recent trip to Japan I found several examples of how culture plays a role in the success of certain types of business. So dramatic are some of the differences between…
Context... culture, sustainability








