Are You Deploying It or Winging It?

Often times, I wonder if software developers are really deploying something or just winging it. So, who better to ask than Mary and Tom Poppendieck. Related Podcast and Transcription:  Leaders in Lean Software Knowledge Joe:  Data is still king though, isn’t it? I mean, we have to deploy something. We have to be able to measure Read More …

Agile in a Business Sense

Radical management is a fundamentally different approach to management, with seven inter-locking principles of continuous innovation. Steve Denning author of The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century discussed this in a podcast with me. Below is an excerpt from the podcast. Related Podcast and Transcription: Leadership using Agile Methods Read More …

The Tribe of Me, The Tribe of My Group

Before Personal Kanban was published, I had Jim Benson on the podcast talking about team work. During the podcast I asked, “I noticed, on your website, where you talk about if you optimize your team and not your people, you’re not really optimized. I really like that statement. We all realize we have to make the Read More …

A Learners Point of View of Storytelling

Author Julie Dirksen discusses how to use storytelling during the The Learner’s Journey. Julie is the author of  Design For How People Learn (Voices That Matter. Related Podcast and Transcription: A Path to Better Learning Joe: How does storytelling take a part in learning? It’s not really in your book as much. You always hear Read More …

Playing in the Customer’s Playground

I always use a terminology that you need to be playing in the customer’s playground. What I mean by that is that you or your organization need to be participating in the activities where your customers are participating. That point of use or where they are trying to get their job done. I asked Joe Read More …

Can You Pass on Culture? Can You Pass on The Disney Way?

In a past podcast, I asked Doug Lipp  a world-renowned speaker and acclaimed expert on Disney and explained in his book Disney U: How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, and Customer-Centric Employees; In your work, you try to pass on the Disney way to others? How tough is that? Doug:    It Read More …