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Real World Kaizen in Action
In October 2012 Superstorm Sandy hit New York City. The results are still being felt today. Relief agencies struggled to keep up with the demand for food. Six months later, people in Rockaways are...
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Kumbaya Yourself into an Agile Enterprise
Best quote of Agile 2013 award goes to Dennis Stevens of LeadingAgile. In a well received session by Dennis and Mike Cottmeyer, they discussed the topic of gaining support for a sustainable Agile...
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New Agile Training Classes Announced
Though I’ve been doing Enterprise Agile Coaching with LeadingAgile for over a year now, I haven’t been doing a lot of training (or blogging). I’ve been sticking to agile transformation work and the...
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How to be Successful with Agile at Scale
Ever asked yourself how you could be successful with Agile at scale? Let me show you how we’ve done it at LeadingAgile. In this one hour session that I presented to the PM Symposium in Washington DC, I...
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A Lack of a Shared Understanding
Earlier this week, I facilitated a backlog refinement meeting. In the past, the team was used to all of the requirements being completed (in advance) by the analysts. The delivery team would then...
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Brain Teaser With a Hidden Lesson
What is the number of the parking space containing the car? I was on Google+ last night when I came across a brain teaser. It took me about 20 seconds to figure it out. On average, I’m finding others...
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Cheat Sheet for Backlog Refinement
What is it? The purpose of backlog refinement (grooming) is to make improvements to the product backlog. Though there is no official ceremony detailed in the Scrum Guide, the activity of refining the...
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Barriers to Agile Adoption
We’ve all seen it happen. Though we try to show organizations the benefits of using a mature agile delivery framework, we still run into roadblocks. Though the status quo is killing their organization,...
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Theory X vs. Theory Y
Do you lead or do you manage? Do you believe in command-and-control or do you believe in team empowerment? Recently, while presenting an Agile Enterprise Workshop, we discussed Theory X and Theory Y...
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Limit your Holiday WIP with Personal Kanban
I’m asked on a regular basis how Agile or Lean practices can be applied during the holidays. Let’s face it, we have a limited amount of time and todo lists as long as our arms. Truth be told, people...
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My Personal Kanban submission for Agile 2014
I am happy to announce I submitted a workshop titled ”At home and work, how to get more stuff done. An introduction to Personal Kanban“. After asking people to provide comments, I was informed that...
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Bad UX on a Menu
I took the family to Popeyes this weekend. I’m not the fast food type so this is about as close as it gets for me. I’m also not one who eats biscuits or drinks a lot of soda. Why eat at Popeyes, you...
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Agile Engine Metaphor
I recently published a post over at the LeadingAgile website. I compared and agile transformation to a carburetor engine. It was based on an interesting exchange I had on Google+ about Agile process...
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Product Owner and the Scrum Team
On March 11, 2014, I presented a talk to IIBA Baltimore on the topic of the Product Owner and the Scrum Team. I have to say, this was an awesome bunch of people to talk with. You know you’re at the...
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Derek Huether Presenting at Agile 2014 in Orlando, Florida
It’s official. I’m going to be presenting at Agile2014 in Orlando this summer. My 75-minute session will be part of an Learning track that is targeted at anyone who struggles with getting their work...
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Top 10 Negative Personas of a Daily Standup Meeting
All Agile teams should be holding a daily standup meeting. Don’t think of it as a daily planning meeting. Think of it as a daily opportunity to have a shared understanding of what is getting done and...
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Tips to Break Into Project Management
Geoff’s Request Professor of project management at Durham College, Geoff Crane, just published an ebook titled 52 Tips to Break Into Project Management. Back in early May, he told me he was compiling...
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Lean Coffee Baltimore
What is it? Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting...
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Busy Summer
This summer, things come in three’s. One I’ll be hosting Lean Coffee Baltimore on July 11 at Mad City Coffee. >> Register Here >> Two I’ll be presenting at Agile2014 in Orlando on August 1....
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