6 days agoThe Organisation Doesn’t Exist So Stop Trying To Manage How It ChangesA talk I gave at a practitioner conference this year. I think I might approach aspects of this differently if I did it again, and my boss fell asleep as I was giving the talk, but otherwise it went pretty well…Agile1 min readAgile1 min read
Sep 23Professionalisation of Agility, or Striating Agile Practice…A friend recently suggested that it was time to regulate agile coaches; they cited (legitimate, in my view) concerns about some of the views, opinions and approaches espoused by some people in the domain. Like academia, my friend suggested, we should regulate or self-regulate: one should not be able to…Agile10 min readAgile10 min read
Mar 17, 2022Requisite Variety, or why the right can’t win without losingIn systems theory, there is a concept called Requisite Variety: that the system must have sufficient diversity to respond to the diverse demands of the environment. For example, a computer store that sold just one computer is less viable than a store that sells a range of models to meet…Diversity4 min readDiversity4 min read
Jun 19, 2021The Agile Mindset: an aim or a problem?My friend, Francesco Bianchi, put up a post on LinkedIn which started with the phrase: “As Agilists we love to correct people that Agile is not a method. With pride we stress instead that Agile is a Mindset. Most of us stop there like that was enough.” He goes on…Mindset6 min readMindset6 min read
Sep 10, 2020Are Management and Leadership are Moral?Leadership is about the creation and exercise of power in a social context, so they are by definition political practices. …Management3 min readManagement3 min read
