Can You Learn The Menlo Way?

Joyful and disciplined “agile” methodologies are the foundation on how Menlo Innovations have built their business culture. At this date, I am sure there is only limited seating left for this action packed day at Lean Frontiers outstanding training facility in Indianapolis, IN. In the August 26th session you will learn… how Menlo’s iterative design Read More …

My Current 7 Step Marketing Outline

The last few weeks I have been writing a post a week on how my marketing has transformed over the past several years. I started with, 7 Simple Steps to Improve Your Marketing and followed up with Revisiting the 7 Steps to Improve Your Marketing. Today, I will visit what I might call my current Read More …

Your Organization, Your Story

Your Organization was started to change the world. (Read that again). You are involved in a mission to change the world and that’s a story just about anyone wants to be a part of!  – An excerpt from The Nonprofit Narrative: How Stories Can Save the World authored by Dan Portnoy. If you don’t believe Read More …

How to Create a Story for your Organization

The Nonprofit Narrative: How Stories Can Save the World authored by Dan Portnoy is one of the best introductions on how to tell your story as a For-Profit or Non-Profit organization. This might be an endorsement; I own the book in both audio and as a Kindle. The book is short, to the point and Read More …

Is there a Lack of Commitment in Agile, Kanban?

A while back, I had a podcast with Yuval Yeret is a senior Agile Consultant on the AgileSparks team who focuses on Kanban, Scrum, Lean, and effective R&D in general. See what Yuval says about commitment… Related Podcast and Transcription: Kanban and Scrum: A Mixed Approach Joe:  That’s interesting, because commitment does seem that when Read More …