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PLAYING WITH DASH Apologies, I have not been posting anything the past few weeks. I’ve been hit with a double whammy. One is that I’ve been attending with several engaging webinars and MeetUps. The other is that I’ve had to debug my website. One of the plugin updates caused some...

Do you know what you’re doing? Do you know what you’re doing? You might be thinking right now, “What kind of question is that? Is JF off his rocker? Of course, I know what I’m doing.”  Let me explain my question by using the following exercise analogy. You might start...

Agile is Not About Doing Doing things like Scrum or Kanban Does Not Make You Agile I’ve come across many people who say they or their company are Agile because they are doing Scrum or Kanban. However, when I dig a little deeper to find out more details, I find...

The Problem with Agile Transformations   What Management Needs to Consider About Agile Transformations Many Agile transformations are happening in various businesses at the moment. Yes, the current pandemic has sped up the need to transform organizations to be more Agile. But even before COVID-19, I was encountering transformation stories...

Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) and Bad Product Decisions (Part 4 – End) Part 4 – Dealing with FOMO Through Planning In my last newsletter, I talked about doing a quick dive into data to validate a FOMO-based decision. There’s another way to ensure that you don’t fall into a...

Reflecting on the Law of Two Feet I was attending yesterday’s talk on the Agile Virtual Summit. Diana Larsen  was the first speaker, and right of the bat, she informed everyone that she was pivoting her talk. She addressed head-on the current events of the riots in the US resulting...