by Kiron Bondale | Nov 25, 2021 | Agile, communications, improving project management, management failure, project management
One of the clichés you will run across if you read enough articles or watch enough videos about agility is that we should be using the term as an adjective rather than as a noun. Here are a couple of examples of this misuse. “We are doing agile” Agile is an umbrella...
by Kiron Bondale | Jul 18, 2021 | Agile, governance, management failure, Process Peeves, project management
The latest version of the Scrum Guide states “The Developers can select whatever structure and techniques they want, as long as their Daily Scrum focuses on progress toward the Sprint Goal and produces an actionable plan for the next day of work. This creates focus...
by Kiron Bondale | Jul 4, 2021 | Facilitating Organization Change, management failure, personal development, Psychological Safety, team building
Earlier this week, Amy Edmondson posted a quote on LinkedIn which really made me think. “A crucial misconception is that psychological safety will naturally occur in any reasonably healthy workplace. In fact, psychologically safe work environments are rare. They...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 27, 2021 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management, Psychological Safety, team building
More than a few times over my career, I would have loved to have channeled the emotion and intensity which Jack Nicholson’s character, Colonel Jessup, put into his famous line from “A Few Good Men”. While his rationale for yelling this was that he felt Lt. Kaffee...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 20, 2021 | communications, Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management
(Photo by Moose Photos from Pexels) George Bernard Shaw said: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place”. This quote came to mind while I was contemplating the basic communication model which many of us learn about early in...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 6, 2021 | Facilitating Organization Change, management failure, project management, Psychological Safety, team building
One of Steve Jobs’ most famous quotes comes from the kickoff to the 1997 Apple Think Different campaign: “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond...
