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Episode #34: Agile Fundamentals for Business Leaders
“Agile innovation methods have revolutionized information technology. Over the past 25 to 30 years success rates in software development improved quality, speed to market, and boosted motivation and productivity of IT teams” – Darrell K. Rigby,Jeff Sutherland, and Hirotaka Takeuchi 2016, Harvard Business Review. Business leaders should pay attention to the trending maturity of agile…
Read MoreEpisode 33: I Went Agile and Can Never Go Back to a Plan-Based Process
In my experience I have worked in several places where people in leadership and execution roles expressed the desire to go back to a plan-based and staged gate process. To my dismay, they felt tired of agile and sometimes thought that going back to a waterfall or stage gate model would be easier. Momentarily, I…
Read MoreEpisode #32: Get 4X More: Economic Value of Agile Organizations
Word of the Day: Relevant – directly connected to a solution or problem Quote of the Day: “Quality, relevant content can’t be spotted by an algorithm. You can’t subscribe to it. You need people – actual human beings – to create or curate it.” ― Kristina Halvorson, Content Strategy for the Web The agile practice…
Read MoreEpisode #31: 5 Saturdays Program
Hello and welcome to KnolShare with Dr. Dave, hosted on GrokShare.com and available on iTunes and Google Play. You are listening to Episode #31. A fun discussion with Heidi Helfand about the 5 Saturdays program and the origin of Micro teams. 5 Saturdays is a program designed to empower students through agility and innovation by…
Read MoreEpisode #30: Micro Teams: Go Small and Get More
Hello and welcome to KnolShare with Dr. Dave, hosted on GrokShare.com and available on iTunes and Google Play. Welcome to 2017, I hope you have identified a few new year’s evolution goals. As I would like to see more people working toward evolving into new opportunities in life, versus establishing resolutions that are hard to…
Read MoreEpisode #29: Retrospective Techniques and Nonviolent Communications (NVC)
Retrospectives serve as a practice of continual learning and team growth. Teams identify behaviors to improve by sharing 1) what worked, 2) what did not work, and 3) what can be improved. NVC is a powerful conflict resolution tool for effective communications and empathy with individuals or teams. Key NVC components include 1) observations, 2)…
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