Collective Edge Coaching

Leadership coaching for agile managers & executives

Posted on 29. Jun, 2010 by Michael Spayd.

Michael is excited to be starting a  leadership coaching group for managers & executives engaged in Agile transformations. From the beginning of his Agile career, Michael has worked extensively with management and their unique perspective on the world of self-organized teams and the necessary changes to management assumptions that accompany an Agile transition. Managers making [...]

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PMO in a New Key

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Michael Spayd.

The title of a book I read in college has always stuck with me: Philosophy in a New Key. It marked the beginning of a new conversation about how philosophy was done. I am intending something similar with a new whitepaper about PMOs in the Agile age.
My attempt to frame a new discussion about PMOs [...]

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Conflict, Diversity & Appreciation

Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by Michael Spayd.

My friend Jean Tabaka recently posted what may become a seminal blog (who knows, eh?) on a process of escalating conflict she sees within the Agile community (Escalation is Killing Agile). It soon made the Twitter rounds and then ignited a storm of comments, including some that seemed to actually illustrate Jean’s point. My primary [...]

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