In my last post, I described how we started with Kanban at Silverline to help them become a more agile marketing firm. Early on, we kept the focus on mapping their system, visualizing the work, and agreeing on explicit policies (think: rules of the road) that would drive them towards achieving results. After giving the…

During our first week on the job, coaches are presented with an excellent opportunity to help our teams and model the behavior we hope to see from them. And it doesn’t even involve solutioning! Though it’s tempting to show results right away, firing off solutions to obvious, but ingrained, problems is one of the last…

Business Agility is finally going mainstream, and it’s about time! From Lean Startups to large, traditionally bureaucratic corporations and federal agencies, individuals and teams across the spectrum of the professional world are dispelling the myth that Agile is only for technology. Through an Agile lens, these leaders and their organizations are discovering powerful new ways…