by Elizabeth Harrin | Mar 29, 2022 | Books, Leadership, Stakeholders, This article contains affiliate links.
I have been a bit lax with project management reading recently but one book that I have made time to review again is The Conscious Project Leader: How to Create a Culture of Success for Your Projects, Your Team and Yourself. Colin Ellis I was lucky enough to find...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jan 28, 2022 | interview, Leadership, Stakeholders
When I read Susanne Madsen’s book, The Power of Project Leadership. I was struck by how practical it was. Often we think that leadership is about character and attitude (read my take on the traits of good leaders here) and forget that you can actually practice being a...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 5, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile failure, agile transformation, Agile Transition, Failure, Leadership, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: The Lack of Agile Leadership Qualities — When Change Agents Don’t Act as Role Models There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. When Scrum...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jun 9, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Leadership, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum Master, Scrum Master anti-patterns
TL; DR: When Scrum Masters Fail — Making Your Scrum Work #13 There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Scrum thrives when the Scrum teams are...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jun 7, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile failure, agile transformation, Agile Transition, Failure culture, Leadership, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum anti-patterns, Video
TL; DR: Essential Agile Failure Patterns — When Noise Interferes with Signal There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. When Scrum becomes an...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Sep 21, 2020 | Leadership, Skills
Bryan Barrow This is a guest post by Bryan Barrow. After several years we seem, at last, to be over our fixation with zombies. Again. It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last time that the zombie movie genre comes around, each time bringing a new generation...