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Scrum Doesn't Work Here

July 19, 2016 by Tony Grout in leadership, management, process

It’s common for some new agile teams to blame the new approach for making things worse. What’s really happening is Scrum is showing them their existing problems more frequently.

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July 19, 2016 /Tony Grout
Scrum
leadership, management, process
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Use the System to Change the System

July 10, 2016 by Tony Grout in culture, management

When leading an agile transforming across a large command and control organisation treating it as hand to hand battle is a common epic fail. So how can you use the organisations heritage to help the transformation?

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July 10, 2016 /Tony Grout
culture, management
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Are The People with the Problem the People with the Answer?

January 02, 2016 by Tony Grout in leadership, management, culture

If you're running a project postmortem, a Scrum retrospective of Five Why's root cause analysis session on some lean process are you sure you've got the experience in the room to get a useful outcome? 

I've always wanted to believe that the people with the problem probably have the answer. But what if they haven't?

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January 02, 2016 /Tony Grout
leadership, management, culture
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Beware the Managerator

May 25, 2015 by Tony Grout in leadership, management, tools

Why when someone gets promoted to a manager do they completely forget the realities of the job they used to do? The only sensible reason I can come up with is that they lose 5 minutes of their lives in the Managerator...

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May 25, 2015 /Tony Grout
leadership, management, tools
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