Mike Pollard

The person who fights for a dying cause is admired, supported and honored. The person who fights for a new cause struggling to be born is misunderstood, reviled and attacked. Nothing is more difficult than taking the lead in a new order of things.

X: We do LeanAgile. Me: Excellent. Can you tell me about your user needs? X: Sure, we have our user stories and customer journey. Me: This was written with your users? X: No, we wrote it. Me: Hmmm. Do you use your product? X: Ourselves? No. Me: Ah. That explains a lot.

What means more to you ... The people who work for you or your career? Helping the customer or moving up the corporate ladder? Who are you really??

Testing, developing, business analysis, product management, ux research, visual design. These are skills... not roles!! T-shape your team.

Consent based decision making - language used. @tysonnutt #auscrum

Leadership is not a journey to rise in the ranks. Leadership is a journey to help those around us rise.

if you treat people like chess pieces, don't be surprised if they show the initiative and creativity of chess pieces

@KentBeck The legacy by James Kerr. 15 lessons in leadership, how the NZ All Blacks are built and how these lessons can be applied in all fields.

Time… it is missed… lost…wished … flies by. Why not own it, use it, grab it, find it.

If you must insist on an agile maturity assessments for teams, why no agile maturity assessment for leadership and business stakeholders??

I don't succeed when the person I train becomes champion of the world, I succeed when that person becomes independent of me - a boxing coach

The myth of culture change - rethinking culture in organisations extremeuncertainty.com/the-myth-of-cu…

Haha.. “Organisations love stack ranking engineers, but hate stack ranking requirements.” - @jezhumble #agileindia2017

What happens when a communication strategy isn't communicated very well?

Generate ideas 2 targets 2 actual outcomes. This is learning and makes you better, faster #mvp #AI #customervalue #startupsydney #startupaus twitter.com/LeonTranterEU/…

Misconceptions around MVP (Minimum Viable Product) #agile #lean #leanstartup extremeuncertainty.com/misconceptions…

If you are ready to learn, anyone can be your teacher. ~Anonymous #ThinkBIGSundayWithMarsha

#HBR #atlantive #wedo #ideaoutcome Despite the difficulty in tracking outputs, it’s the outputs that really matter. hbr.org/2016/12/how-to…

Agile is not about doing more work in less time, it's about creating more value with less work. -Steve Denning

The uncertainty of benefits versus costs: buff.ly/2cIoiP0 #agile #estimates #noestimates