
How Others See Us Is Important Too
I was having a conversation once with an executive sponsor who was frustrated by friction between competing organizational silos. One silo adopted Agile, the other stuck with more traditional plan driven development. Each side mocked the other’s “head in the clouds” or “lost in the past” approach to projects. When I was asked what I thought about the situation I found myself saying something along these lines, “We (the Agile teams) have become very good at being open and coll