Mark's site about distributed teams, agile organizations, and coaching.
I specialize in the challenges of distributed teams. Yes, I am a long-time agilist that believes that face-to-face is more effective. Yet, the reality for many people and teams is they are distributed. Through consulting, coaching and teaching, I can help you guide your distributed agile teams, build a better virtual workspace, and coach remotely.
(Oct 2018 - Unfortunately, Janet Danforth passed away recently and her partner, Robert Moir, has retired. Still, I leave this article online to honor the cutting edge work in 3D remote facilitation.) …
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Last Wednesday I was invited by AgileBill Krebs to share my thoughts on the evolution of teams on Agile Witness News. We discussed some of the evolving enterprise agile frameworks and the …
I'm very excited to announce that Agile Orlando will be rebooting on July 23, 2013! Our goal is to grow knowledge within the Central Florida community on lean and agile project management and …
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As a coach of coaches, this is a question I often get from new agile coaches and scrummasters. Many are familiar with the Tuckman model of teams: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing. But despite …
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This blog was inspired by one question: How do I coach myself? As an agile coach that has coached numerous individuals and organizations over the years, it’s easy for me to coach others. However, …
This blog will share my thoughts on various topics ... some agile, some on other topics that are of interest to me. Stay tuned. …
Over the last 10 years, while learning how agile methodologies can work in different industries and organizations, I also discovered how I could help distributed teams work as if they were face-to-face teams. So I am starting a series of posts where I hope to share some practical tips for those of you who lead […]
Let’s help Rally alumni have a chance to Rally On!
While speaking recently at a conference, I realized two important things about the nature of remote work. First, I choose to work remotely. Second, many of the people who work remotely, particularly in large organizations, did not choose this way of working. I had roughly 200 people attend my talk at the Global Scrum Gathering […]