Category: homegrownagile

Homegrown Agile is about taking what my family is teaching me and seeking out where these critical concepts can improve teams, companies, community groups, etc. and then sharing it with you.  Hopefully, you laugh more than cringe, but more importantly, you look around you and see how life can be a good teacher.

Homegrown Agile: The College Transfer and Focusing on the Wrong Metrics Wrongly

Word of warning: this blog post is half "Homegrown Agile" post about experiences that highlighted agility in my family and half a complaint session about yet another broken system. Introducing M I haven't introduced my oldest daughter that we shall affectionately call "M."  For some reason this brings back memories of Madame Judy Dench in … Continue reading Homegrown Agile: The College Transfer and Focusing on the Wrong Metrics Wrongly

Homegrown Agile: The Winter Storm and Emerging Technical Debt

Georgia in the United States is not known for "winter."  But every three or so years, the Atlanta area is thrown into a tizzy by what Buford Calloway calls, "Connecticut Confetti, Flakes of the Devil's Dandruff, New England Clam Powder" in other words, SNOW. If you don't know what I'm talking about here is the … Continue reading Homegrown Agile: The Winter Storm and Emerging Technical Debt

Homegrown Agile: A Discussion with My Son on Team

As a Dad, there are never a loss of times that can be used to grow closer to, educate, enrich, empower, and even correct my kids.  The art is knowing which of those – growing closer to, educating, enriching, empowering, correcting – is needed at which time.  Sometimes, we use the situation or problem to … Continue reading Homegrown Agile: A Discussion with My Son on Team

Homegrown Agile: The Beginning and being a dad in agility

My first thoughts about Agile practices were not those of increasing productivity (even though they can), improving product speed to market (which they do), or even breaking down the walls between traditional "business" and "IT" (which happens, all the time).  Rather, I kept seeing a cultural and environmental shift in the ways people interacted - from the client relationships to the leadership relationships.  I saw how, at the core, we empowered people to do what they do even better and deliver things of value in order to improve relationships and the subsequently the wealth of all parties involved.