Weeknotes

Lots of stuff about team working and a little about the global technology outage.

A bit about measuring value in an agile way and - oh no - some UK politics

Wow! Where did June go? Here is a catch up on the weeknotes I missed over the last few weeks.

Weeknotes are supposed to be a quick download and not a polished article. You can probably tell I end up in the middle quite a lot. This week is another example that starts and ends as a weeknote but diverts into discussing three different levels of being an Agile Coach.

It felt good leaving some frustrations behind in my previous week note. This time I thought I would try to dispose of some persistent mistakes that organisations of all types make. These are also frustrating as I am not very good at persuading people that these are, in fact, mistakes and so they get repeated more than I would like.

Every week includes a mix of successes and frustrations. Most weeks I write more about the positive side of things but this week felt harder than normal - probably because of things going on outside work. I don’t want to carry the frustrations around with me as that doesn’t do any good. Instead I am going to leave them behind in this weeknote.

It feels like there is too much for one weeknote this time. Perhaps I need to prioritise but I find all these things fascinating. I keep nudging our teams to focus rather than have lots of things going on in parallel. Maybe I should take some of my own advice! Anyway here goes.

I’m back from a couple of weeks leave (it was amazing, thanks for asking), cleared the usual backlog of messages and got stuck into the projects I am supporting.

On effective teams, effective programme boards and effective public services

On shared provocations, developing agile leaders and anti-racism policies.