Coaching


Ma récente expérience au sein d’un group BI (Business Intelligence) m’a confronté à une problématique intéressante. Comment arriver à arrimer l’agilité au sein d’un groupe dont la donnée est l’incrément de logiciel? Mon approche dans cet écosystème consiste à discuter de valeur. La valeur n’est pas dans une action du logiciel, mais l’information que livre le système à ses utilisateurs, donc de la connaissance. Ce qui me porte à dire...

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Lors d’un récent mandat dans une grande institution bancaire au Canada, on m’a confié le mandat de guider des équipes vers l’Agilité. Cette opportunité était une belle occasion de démontrer une fois de plus la puissance de l’Agilité dans un contexte imparfait. Pourquoi imparfait? Ces nouvelles équipes se situent dans un environnement au milieu de chaîne, c’est-à-dire au cœur d’opérations bancaires complexes, mais sans avoir...

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Attached are excerpts of the internal news bulletin of an organization we started coaching in 2008. They had the courage to do things differently and are now reaping the benefits.  Being in the avionics industry, the challenges in adopting an Agile approach were immense.  But the highly capable team members and management at CMC Electronics were able to surmount those challenges and come up with new and ingenious ways to get closer...

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In the last few days, I’ve been getting messages with joyful and happy themes attached to them. I was then prompted to ask myself why some people are downright miserable working within an Agile framework, while many others would not have it any other way.  Thinking of various individuals from different teams and industries, I tried to decipher the observed patterns of those individuals who are sincerely happy in an Agile setting. What...

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It’s been a tough yet fulfilling week.  Now that it’s over, I finally get to go home and give a huge hug to my 11 year old resource! You might have guessed, but I’m talking about daughter who I love more than anything!  But since she’s simply a resource, I can easily replace her with any 11 year old kid and it’ll work just fine.  I get home, Vanessa has been replaced by…Sara and I give her a big hug, ask her about her day,...

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How do we go about to instill an Agile mindset and help teams deliver quality solutions?  The two main strategies are the “Big Bang” and pilot project approach.   I’ve never had the opportunity to go ahead with a Big Bang, so the alternative has been to find a cool project, get a team together, Scrum the hell out of it and watch all the nasty stuff come up.  With a few lessons learned and improved processes, start up a second team and...

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