Huawei says it’s a ‘victim of bullying by the US’

I have worked with Huawei and other Chinese companies in the past. There is a thread of truth in the accusations from the US Government.   Source: Huawei says it’s a ‘victim of bullying by the US’

Agile Moment: Learning from Product Management observations

Product management is a wholly immersive experience. It simply cannot be done effectively through shortcuts and half baked effort. At scale or for your mom and pop shop… success means hard work and building deep and wide connections with those who buy and those who build as you make the economic decisions on which sliceContinue reading “Agile Moment: Learning from Product Management observations”

Self-Organization with Children

Have you ever been self-managed/organized at a pick-up game at the schoolyard when you were a kid? Basketball? Baseball? Football? Soccer? Dungeons and Dragons (j/k)? We train our kids to do this…and they are really good at it, and they accomplish it mostly in an objective manner. e.g. – I’m a big guy, 6’3″, andContinue reading “Self-Organization with Children”

The Cost of Change

“Every time we let Brent fix something that none of us can replicate, Brent gets a little smarter, and the entire system gets dumber.” – The Phoenix Project And yet organizations continue using this fallacious hero PERSON OR TEAM mental model filled with poor assumptions and more than a few negative biases. Why? Because itContinue reading “The Cost of Change”

The fallacy of stale old mental models about managing people

Managers have never, ever been able to “manage” creative knowledge workers. Only negotiate with them to some degree. Managing knowledge workers is a fallacy of misapplied theory X thinking. Get out of the Freddie Taylor box. If you truly need to “manage” a creative knowledge worker, congratulations you have found an imposter.

News: BLS Awarded Enterprise Agility Services Contract to support the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

NEWS RELEASE Thursday, December 7, 2017 Big Lake Software, LLC. +1 (602) 748-4797 sales@biglakesoftware.com Phoenix, Arizona: Big Lake Software, LLC. (BLS) was awarded a task order contract to provide Scaled Agile Framework for the Lean Enterprise (SAFe®) program consulting services for the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Enterprise Services Center (ESC) with their business partner and prime contractorContinue reading “News: BLS Awarded Enterprise Agility Services Contract to support the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)”