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…

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…

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…

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…

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)…

Globally distributed agile teams is a norm due to the globalization and the availability of technical resources globally.  What would happen if we treated globally distributed teams in the same manner as the Internet of Things (IoT) and MicroServices? Learning Objectives: Develop a strategy to setup self-organizing global teams Create practices to improve communications Maximize…