Keith Ray: Thought Pioneer
The following is printed with permission from Keith Ray. It originally appeared here. The post is preserved here in unadulterated form. In this post he makes certain assertions that start to link Agile practices with the ability to manifest a Learning Organization. This is a great read. Quotes: Continuous Learning. I've always said that XP requires a Learning Organization, and ...
Pioneers in Thought Leadership
I am actively looking for people who have been linking Agile to the Learning Organization concept before 2012. Specifically, I am looking for folks who have written anything in books, papers and blog posts predating 2012, that explain how Agile practices are actually the A-B-C steps to building a small Learning Organization that we ...
Four Years of Open Space
(NOTE: This is a guest post from my friend Jay Vogt, author of RECHARGE YOUR TEAM: The Grounded Visioning Approach.) Rex and Bruce, two managing directors at Cyrus Innovation, had planned their big quarterly company meeting down to the last detail, but they still weren’t happy with it. They went back and forth, trying to find ...
Winning the Productivity Game
Dave Logan is the author of TRIBAL LEADERSHIP. In this book Dave describes the triad, a structure that is essential for scaling Agile from teams to tribes. In my book THE CULTURE GAME, I describe how to use triads to get viral spread of the sixteen team-learning practices described in that book. Please join Dave Logan and myself (
Speaking in “We”, thinking in “Me”
Psst. Want to change the world? If so, you'll need the right kind of folks on the bus, the kind of people who "get it". You'll need some leadership. Some TRIBAL leadership. Me vs. We My friend Dave Logan, author of TRIBAL LEADERSHIP, outlines 5 specific stages of culture. At each stage, the majority of the people in the culture ...
What Kind of World Are You Building?
Jim and Michele McCarthy are the authors of SOFTWARE FOR YOUR HEAD, a book about structuring essential interactions inside great teams. There is one piece of this book, the chapter on the FarVision Protocol, which is very interesting. It is as follows: You work hard, burn out, and wonder why you bother. You always play a role in creating the future, whether ...
Lowell Lindstrom, Agile Coach
Lowell Lindstrom, being himself, at Agile2007. This is the first of a series of ‘shameless friend-promotions’ (SFPs) that I intend to feature on this blog from time to time. The intent of this week’s shameless friend-promotion post is to bring Lowell Lindstrom to your attention. If you ...
