Disruptive Thought: Recent Episodes
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Co Authored by Tony Ponton and Phil Gadzinski Moving through to the second of our keys to governing with agility, we look at how we are organised to do the actual work – a combination of teamwork and taskwork with the ultimate goal of productivity. From a traditional governance perspective we are examining the completion of artefacts; the … Continue reading Agility in Governance: Work Patterns
Co Authored by Tony Ponton and Phil Gadzinski As we wrote about in our previous posts, after twenty years of working in agile, non-agile and transitional organisations, we have distilled what agile governance is into a key metapattern and four archetypes we believe are needed to effectively govern any modern system of work – whether we use agile … Continue reading Agility in Governance: Organisational Transparency
Co Authored by Tony Ponton and Phil Gadzinski Having talked about what “Agile Governance” is and why we need it, we thought it best to discuss what we are trying to achieve when we change our system of assuring work. The following quote from Kent Beck really describes it well: “Silence is the sound of risk piling up” … Continue reading Agility in Governance: What is Agile Governance trying to achieve?
Co Authored by Tony Ponton and Phil Gadzinski In our last post we spoke of the need for agile governance. In order to write further on the topic we felt it’s best to define, at a much deeper level, what agile governance is, so to that end this post will address that definition. Firstly, when … Continue reading Agility in Governance: What is agile governance?
Co Authored by Tony Ponton and Phil Gadzinski Once upon a time, on a cold snowy day, agile came along and the world hasn’t been the same since. Geoffrey Moore in Crossing the Chasm quotes that Disruptive Innovation gets us to change our behaviour and the things we might use to solve problems. He positions … Continue reading Agility in Governance: The Compelling Need for Agile Governance
My good friend Phil Gadzinski and I were recently asked to speak at the Responsible Tech Summit 2020 recently. Phil and I are very passionate about agile governance, especially now that remote working has become a dominant way of working . This is our presentation: Creating the next normal: remote agile governance The spread of … Continue reading Responsible Tech Summit
Recently myself and Phil Gadzinski , one of my fellow Heart Of Agile Consultants were asked to present at the Agile Brisbane Meetup in Australia. We had the idea to interview Dr Alistair Cockburn ( Signatory of the Manifesto and originator of the Heart Of Agile concept) to kick off the session. The interview resulted … Continue reading Brisbane Meetup Heart Of Agile Presentation
For some time now Alistair Cockburn has been on the journey to bring back the simplicity of Agile. I can remember discussing with him many times how it had become so convoluted with frameworks and multiple methods, all of them claiming to be the golden cure to creating agility. Yet the more involved they became, … Continue reading The Heart Of Agile
My keynote presentation with Craig Smith from the LAST Conference 2018 in Brisbane called “FailAgility: Recognising and Resetting the Agile Boundaries” is available on Slideshare. FailAgility; we have all seen it and let’s face it, we are all guilty of letting it happen in our organisations. So why is it that so many businesses fail to see … Continue reading LAST Conference Brisbane 2018 – FailAgility: Recognising and Resetting the Agile Boundaries
The Agile Revolution Podcast Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference and are privileged to spend some time with Don Reinertsen, who is considered one of the leading thinkers in the field of lean product development and author of numerous books including “Principles of Product Development Flow” “Principles of Product Development Flow” book and why … Continue reading Episode 123: Some Principles of Lean and Product Development Flow with Don Reinertsen