In 2006, Ivor Jacobson famously summarized , "Most important, agile is about social engineering." And indeed one of the things that makes so many agilists so dar ned loveable is that we are , as a frie nd of mine put it yesterday, "the kind of people who want to create a work place where you can go and still be a human being." Not a "resource," not an "FTE," but a human! It's an inspiring dream! http://www.pbpp.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/human_resources/5364/how_to_apply/494613 B ut you kno w what ? I t's not a goal you can atta ck directly , even if you are, for some reason, under the impression that you're in charge. In fact, in my view, a lot of us are completely wrong about what the "lead" and " lag" measures are for a successful "agile" transformation of an orga nization . "Lead" measures, you will recal l, are the little things you can observe which reliably indic...
Non-zealot reflections on real life agile leadership, management and analysis practices.