Jerry Doucett was born and raised in Toronto and has spent his entire life living in the GTA. But he’s an avid traveler and regularly makes his fellow BERTEIG colleagues […]
Promise Less for Better Sprints
We all do it from time to time: over-commit and under-deliver in sprints. In our work as Agile coaches, we at BERTEIG often encounter teams that are not able to […]
Gain Agility in the Cloud
It is a golden age for our business thanks to the internet, agile and the cloud. Agile gives us great tools to navigate the cloud landscape. The thing that attracts […]
Ditching Scientific Management
If you want to truly implement Scrum in the workplace, you have to be willing to dispense with titles, to dispense with scientific management. In the standard product development environment, […]
Scrum is NOT for Project Management
Once Again for Emphasis: Scrum is NOT a Project Management Framework Scrum is for complex product development, enhancement or maintenance, not project management. The authors of the Scrum framework assert […]
MEET OUR TRAINERS: David Vicentin
Growing up in Brazil, BERTEIG consultant David Vicentin loved building out of Lego. He also enjoyed taking apart and reassembling everything—especially electronics—to see how they worked. And, he loved fixing […]
Building Agility in Big Organizations
Big organizations usually have many large, moving pieces—functional departments like compliance, fraud, finance, privacy and so on. And these all serve important functions. The organization designed itself so that those […]
Everyone is Bad at Predicting the Future
As individuals, we tend to have expectations about our knowledge of the future. Predicting the future is important, we think. But if I can get a bit philosophical about this…. I’ll put it […]
The Power of Iterative Adaptive Work
As a coach, it is nice to have some simple ways to show people the power of iterative adaptive work as found in Real Agility™. This quick little exercise is […]
Seven Practical Tips for Business Agility
It’s cliche now: innovation, change and disruption is more frequent than at any time in the past. Businesses continue to struggle with agility. Even after 10 or 15 years trying […]