Joe Schofield
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10 yearsJoe Schofield is an independent consultant “enabling organizational capability” focusing on organizational agility, leadership coaching, team development, product quality, and process improvement. Joe maintains six agile certifications and offers Scrum certification workshops at least monthly for the past four years across the US. He’s a former Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt, instructor for the CMMI®, and past President of the International Function Point Users Group. His 80+ articles, books, conference presentations are listed @ joejr.com. Reach him directly @ [email protected].
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The Veracity about Velocity Novice project management, measurement analysts, and even leadership may attempt to use velocity (an indicator of workload completed) comparisons to drive innovation and improvement across teams. In turn, teams are then motivated to inflate story points and velocity while losing perspective of their true purpose: value delivery. |
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Agile Value Delivery: A Critical Component of Virtual MeetingsThe recent surge in virtual meetings necessitates an entirely new set of desirable behaviors. But how do you keep participants engaged and material useful and on topic remotely, when it's hard enough to do that with everyone in the same room? The key is keeping value delivery front and center. Here are some tips and best practices for virtual meetings that will help you continue to deliver value. |
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It's Not Just Culture: When Teams Impede Agile AdoptionCultural norms can hamper successful agile transformation. Many of these habits and customs are started and perpetuated by senior leadership, but that’s not always the only source of resistance. Often, ingrained behaviors and thinking can occur within the team, including business partners, that also can hinder agility. Five of these barriers are explored here, as well as mindset antidotes to help get the team on the road to agile success. |
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Countering 5 Barriers to Enterprise Organizational AgilityMany now recognize that organizational agility is critical to business success, but historical patterns of resistance still abound. Before you can change work processes, you should first tackle the traditional mindsets that can pose challenges to the transformation. Here are five traditional behaviors that impede agility, as well as some actions you can take to counter them by changing the corporate mindset. |