Category Archives: Process

Last chance to Empower your Team

Are you surrounded by victims? Do you feel surrounded by people who don’t care? Are you always the one who has to pick up the pieces? Are you fed up of inquests when things go wrong? What if you could … Continue reading

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How do we explain Agile?

“No-one wants to be agile. They don’t even want to do agile. They just want to appear agile.”  “Training companies are propagating a shallow understanding and superficial ways because there is a huge market.” “We are now seeing second and … Continue reading

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Last few days for early-bird on Christopher Avery

The early-bird discount on Christopher Avery’s workshop Leading And Coaching People to Take Responsibility and Demonstrate Ownership in Edinburgh runs out at the end of September.  Get in soon to secure your discount, and use code AGILESCOT14 to get a … Continue reading

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Discounts on Christopher Avery – get in quick!

Only a few days left for super-early-bird discount on Christopher Avery’s workshop Leading And Coaching People to Take Responsibility and Demonstrate Ownership in Edinburgh on 14th November.  Get in by Friday 5th September to secure a £200 discount, bringing the … Continue reading

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Leading and Coaching People to Take Responsibility and Demonstrate Ownership – 14th November 2014, Edinburgh

I’m delighted that I’ve managed to persuade Christopher Avery to come to Edinburgh to teach this workshop. This is the first time he has presented it in the UK. Consider “Pushing Responsibility Down and Empowering the Team” as a short … Continue reading

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Pushing responsibility down and empowering the team – free session 1st September

What would it be like if people around you would actually take responsibility for finding solutions and getting things done? Do you wish people around you would take more ownership for solving problems, rather than wasting valuable time discussing whose … Continue reading

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Five Blogs – 27 May 2014

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The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out. Everything I Know About Business I Learned from Running Written by: Taylor Miller The Residue of Leadership Written by: Guy Clumpner Create a Team Charter to…

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Overcoming 7 Common Pitfalls of Transitioning to Agile

Johanna Rothman will be in Edinburgh in next week with Gil Broza, and she has agreed to do a free evening session for the Lean/AgileScotland community on the night before the course starts. Date: Wednesday 21st May, 7:30pm Venue: Wolfson … Continue reading

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Are we engineers?

I remember years ago, after I had been working a couple of years, having a long argument with someone who disagreed with us calling what we did software engineering. I have recently been reminded of this by Joe Wright @joe_jag … Continue reading

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Do you want to be SAFe?

Agile software development is easy in a single co-located team. (Well, maybe easy is an exaggeration…). But what happens if you’re trying to do something that is bigger than 7-9 people can accomplish? How do you scale to multiple teams … Continue reading

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