As the end of the year approaches, you may be facing the task of preparing for and/or receiving an annual performance review. Like many others (such as Esther Derby), I feel that we need to start thinking differently about this tradition. The reasons are many and Esther does a fine job of describing the reasons […]
Author: Len Lagestee
Len Lagestee is an organizational change coach and blogger at www.illustratedagile.com. As a coach, Len is interacting with large organizations to connect people, revolutionize leadership, deliver results, and humanize the workforce.
The role of Scrum Master is often misunderstood and in some cases underutilized. To help articulate the vision and expectations for the role, here is a sketch to highlight the key focus areas differentiating them from a typical project manager.
#1 – Is my team healthy? Team health can be quite subjective so this question should be answered by looking for the typical dysfunctional team “smells.” These smells usually manifest themselves with minimal laughter and celebration, constant long hours to complete sprints, lengthy and wandering daily scrums, story hangover from sprint to sprint, consistent lateness to […]
While thinking about the keynote address about Positivity at Agile 2011 (and my previous post), I was reminded of one of the doormen at our offices in Chicago. Once in a while at the end of the day, he stands right in the middle of the main hallway that everyone needs to pass through in […]
Being intentionally and overwhelmingly positive. While I think most of us try to be positive most of the time, the Positive Emotions keynote address from Barbara Fredrickson reminded me to take it to another level and decide to be a positive force everyday. Being positive generally means focusing your thoughts and actions on others, not […]
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The First One
Welcome to the first post for my new blog, Illustrated Agile. One of my goals with this blog is to share many of the insights, ideas, hurdles, random thoughts, and most importantly, my sketches from the organizational changes I have been a part of over the years. Most, but not all, of these transformations have […]