Why Minimize Management Decision Time

I wrote Unearthing Your Project’s Delays a couple of years ago. I told the story of Cliff, a manager who…

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Three Ways to Stop Agile Death Marches

Your team says they use Scrum in two-week iterations. And, in order to “finish” everything inside the timebox, you don’t…

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Managers Make the Real Product Quality Decisions

In a conversation about product quality, the product owner said, “If the testers found the problems faster, we would be…

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How Well Do Your Policies Create Desired Outcomes and Trust?

Every organization has policies of some sort. The smaller the organization, the fewer policies you might have. And, the larger…

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Create More Management Transparency

In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used…

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Process Agility: An Impossibility?

I’ve seen several cases of process standardization recently. Those processes don’t translate to the current context. The processes don’t have…

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Radical Remote Tip: No Standups

Every single person in a leadership position struggles with (agile) team transparency. These leaders think the team members work alone.…

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We Won’t Return to Normal; We Will Discover Normal

Many people talk about “going back to normal.” We aren’t going to return to normal. That old normal is gone,…

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL)? You can use MBWAL with collocated teams.…

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