Agile Teams
Have you ever wondered how some projects get done? From the outside they seem complex with many conflicting stakeholders, yet somehow are a success. You can’t help but have a little bit of professional jealousy/envy/respect going on. We’ll get to that in a minute. The way you can find out what really happened in a…
Read More“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve” – Mary Kay Ash
Read MoreSince ‘announcing’ I have been writing a book, I have been approached my quite a few people who have said to me: “I’ve always wanted to write a book too! How did you do it?” Some were looking for practical advice, tips and techniques. And others approached it like it was a dark art. The…
Read More“Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’t see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It’s the one that makes the sweetest sound.” Simon Sinek
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I always wanted to write a book. Ever since I was little, staying at my grandmother’s house where she would give me pieces of white cardboard and textas to write with. I would fill them with words. It was clearly not in my future to be an artist! I was also very talkative as a…
Read More“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort” – Paul J Meyer
Read MoreI was about to start this post with “remember the days, oh so long ago, when business cases were 60 plus pages long and written with no collaboration?”, when I realised that, although those days are far behind many of us, this sort of practice STILL exists! Big, long documents talking about things that are…
Read More“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful” – Sigmund Freud
Read MoreLong time readers will know I’m a bit passionate about human behaviour and how the brain works. I love applying this passion to my work in projects, because project teams are special communities of amazing people. And when brought together in the right way with their talents recognised, they can create magic. The total value…
Read More“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely” – Auguste Rodin
Read MoreIt’s the new year and the year my book, The Agile Project Manager, will be published. Long time readers and team members will know I have been pretty busy with my head down writing, and the feedback I have been receiving has been wonderful, thank you. It has been a while since I sent out…
Read More“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find…
Read MoreLong time readers of my blog and editors of my book (thank you!) will know I am passionate about the Hero’s Journey. I truly believe that we are all heroes of our own story. And our stories are wildly different in nature, but with some key things in common: The Call to adventure from the…
Read More“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much” – Jim Rohn
Read MoreIn the last few posts, I have spoken a lot about the challenges The Agile Project Manager will encounter on their journey to excellence. Once you have crossed the threshold into a new challenge, things like headspace and your inner critic might pop up. Notice these things are internal to you, not external. There are…
Read More“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in” – Arianna Huffington
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