Geoff Mazeroff

Agile Stand-up Meetings Inhibit Innovation (via Harvard Business Review) Synchronizing and realigning on goals can make you efficient, but that may be at the expense of novelty. Being agile doesn’t inherently make you more innovative. Business 9 Trends That Will…

Agile What Happens When You Use Agile for the Wrong Reasons? (via Mountain Goat Software) It rarely goes well. Don’t just follow the herd; ask yourself why certain things are important to you. (The Five Whys technique is helpful here.)…

(A light week because of the holidays) Career So you want to be a COO (via Software Lead Weekly) The piece is a bit biased by the author’s industry experience, but there are still traits and skills that are highlighted…

Agile So What Does an Agile Coach Actually Do (via Marten den Haring) “…Agile Coaching is an approach towards fostering an organisational shift to improve the work, behaviours, and outcomes in the context of the development of solutions/products; it is…

Business The Cost of a Feature (via Software Lead Weekly) I understand the value of this checklist; however, I wonder how many companies have the luxury of computing all of these things with any degree of accuracy. Additionally, many of…

Agile The Right Way to Think about Cost Savings in Agile (via Leading Agile) Some companies think that bringing in Agile (e.g., Scrum) lets them fire their architects and middle managers to save money. If you have a ball of…

Business 3 Mistakes That Stymie Corporate Purpose Initiatives (via Harvard Business Review) A lack of clear metrics Failure to infuse purpose into the sales function Missing the opportunity to activate purpose in your employees Leadership How to Develop Your Leadership…

Agile Summary: Agile for Non-Software Teams With parts of the product “factory” at my company more or less stable, I’ve started to explore other work streams — namely marketing, sales, and IT — that could benefit from Agile principles. It…

Agile Practical Techniques for Change (via Agile Amped) Fail: Overlay a new process without looking at why something isn’t working. What holds the current platform in place? Fail: See perceived problems, then take actions that don’t look at the interaction…

Agile Creating the Right Conditions for Stable Teams (via Leading Agile) Don’t time-slice people across multiple teams. How do they figure out which team gets the work done and who gets starved? Solution: someone has to orchestrate their work. Prefer…