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We are at an inflection point in the american conversation about institutional racism. As project managers, departmental directors, VPs, scrum masters, we have influence in that institutional system. Therefore, we have a professional obligation to create a safe space for our black and brown colleagues, during this crisis moment. Here are 5 things you can do to promote racial justice and equality at your office.

I’m not happy with a lot of negativity out there. I hear people talking about their transformation saying, “this transformation is a failure because this leader doesn’t get it”. Or, “we’re doing a scrummerfall”, or “you know that PMO is in the way, or that group over there is fighting us harder, and so we’re still doing legacy funding and all of our projects are running at the same time and it’s just a failed transformation.” Hang on there. I’m here to say that there’s no such thing as failure when you’re talking about change. There’s only a question of degree of progress.

I believe, at the end of the day, agile is a moral imperative.
You get people wrapped around the axle that if you’re not agile, then you’re not cool. And we’re going to have our agile transformation … Why?
Well, you have to be more agile. Why? The bigger you dig deep into this is that it’s a belief system. What we’re talking about here are three key components. I’m going to share with you three things, three things that people talk about, and it’s going to help you understand where all of this passion and all of this energy and all of these dogmatic fights come from, and the first one is ultimately, at the end of the day, when we talk about agile, it’s deliver early, deliver often. Deliver early, and deliver often. That’s the point.

Command and Control – that’s what I want to talk about today. This term that agile people or anybody floating around in management circles these days about command and control is a negative leadership style.

In this great Podcast visit with DrunkenPMRadio I cover the evolving role of PMO in an Agile Organization. This directly connects to the "Agile PMO Workshop" that I'm going on tour with, so be sure to meet me at one of these locations! February 8th - Full Day...