I recently attended a Tony Robbins Business Mastery course where he shares one of his most famous quotes: “complexity is the enemy of execution”. I always find this quote challenging. […]
An Agile Leader Cultivates Agility
The rules of leadership have changed. If you want compliance, then traditional management approaches may be effective. However, in today’s digital revolution where knowledge workers are the key to value […]
What to Do Before Implementing Agile
Many companies come to us to help them with implementing Agile. With the popularization of Agile “methods” from technology sectors, companies have sought these good practices in order to implement […]
Essential Agile Metrics for Business
Companies have been using metrics for quite some time. Businesses use all kinds of measurements to understand what’s happening in the organization and how well they are satisfying their customers. […]
VIDEO: Problem Solving in Any Agile Environment
Every corporate environment is different, but they all have one challenge in common; problem solving, otherwise known as ‘getting things done’. In this video, BERTEIG expert David Vicentin shares his […]
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, […]
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 […]
Agile Planning and the Cynefin Model
Many experts in the Agile community know of the Cynefin model. For those who may be unfamiliar with it, Wikipedia has a great summary of the Cynefin model. I believe […]
Using Kanban in Scrum Teams to Manage Dependencies
All teams that work together and collaborate have challenges. In my work as a consultant and coach I have come across some common problems that I have seen Scrum teams […]