Agile Culture and Mindset – re-visited

Ever since Agile approaches became popular about 15 to 20 years ago, Agile culture and mindset have been touted as the foundation elements around which successful organizational transformation happens. Peter Drucker’s famous quote “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” points to the ineffectiveness of your strategy implementation if the company culture doesn’t support it. In the […]

The Growth Mindset

Author: McGee – Agile Coach (These statements are strictly personal and are not those of any Company or Organization) Recently, I attended an Agile Coaching course. One of the goals of this course was to make the participants aware of and to practice a number of leadership styles. One of these styles was “Mentoring”. In […]

CHOW #134 – Individual Discipline in Agile

“Yes. Individual discipline is a key component of an Agile organisation. I will tell you why…” Why and how is individual discipline a key component of an Agile organisation? Can you discuss this in terms of the Agile principles of Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools, Responding to Change over Following a Plan, Simplicity? […]

Mindfulness for Agile Culture and Mindset – Extract from our upcoming book

This blog post is an extract from our upcoming book on organisational agility. The objective of the book is to help leaders, managers and change agents (including internal and external agile coaches) involved in organizational agile transformations and project / program managers, scrum masters and team members address the concerns of IT organizations as they try […]