Due to popular demand, we have added another Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) training to our listing of courses. There is an overwhelming need for well trained Product Owners, and we’re happy to take up the challenge. The next CSPO will happen on January 14 & 15 at our office in Newmarket, just north of [...]
I’ve been researching teamwork lately. I just finished reading “The Discipline of Teams” by Katzenbach and Smith which is an HBR summary of their much more substantial book “The Wisdom of Teams”. I decided that it would be good to be able to describe the essential skills an individual needs to acquire in order to [...]
There are two things every leader needs to know to be successful: first, a leader must clearly articulate what they expect, and second, they need to inspect what they expect on a daily basis. The big challenge though is how do you stay on top of changing priorities? And how do you avoid micro management and making your team crazy? This is why OpenAgile, in my opinion, will be very quickly embraced by management teams around the world. It has all the necessary tools to ensure success.
What motivates human beings to do the right thing? To do good deeds, to be truthful, to be kind, to be helpful, to try to make the world a better place? First of all, we have to realize that everything we say and do has an actual, real effect on our environment for better or [...]