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The Team Culture Retrospective is a simple technique combining goals of continuous improvement and learnings from motivational science (Management 3.0).

This article aims to share how Management 3.0 can help create a new version of organisations that can address the huge challenges they’re facing today.

With the increasing adoption of agile in larger and more traditional enterprises, the number of methodologies and frameworks to help these companies scale their agile practices is also growing.

Despite great results, the survey indicates that it’s not all smooth sailing and that most implementations leave plenty of room for improvement.

In this blog, I want to share some things I’ve been doing in the Ops Team as well as some company practices of caring about their people, promoting an inclusive, family-like, collaborative and fun workplace.

Project Management Anonymous : An Eight Step Program to Agile Operations

Organisations typically approach creating team alignment by setting and sharing a company vision. But this often falls flat, failing to resonate with team members on the ground because the importance of helping individuals understand how they personally contribute to the bigger picture is often overlooked. For instance, when there’s a disconnect between the company’s vision and team members’ personal connection…

Some people think Agile’s concept of self-organising teams allows team members to do whatever they want in the belief they’ll eventually self-organise into an effective group. But this would be a misapprehension. This was also my first reaction to being assigned to a self-organising team – perhaps I could come into work at 3am, leave around lunchtime or write all…

Innovation within a large organisation is always a challenge. While ideas are often easy to come by, getting organisational traction and delivering an innovative product to end-users can be quite a battle. One way companies can innovate is by encouraging an entrepreneurial mindset, or what I like to call “fostering the intrapreneur.” As guide and coach for teams that create,…

After you’ve implemented a system, how often have you experienced users reverting back to their old ways? When a new piece of software or process is implemented, much of the focus tends to be on the functionality it provides or the tasks that need to be done rather than the people who use the system. Aside from user acceptance testing…