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Mike Griffiths
I'm a project leader living in Canmore
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PM Illustrated Audio/Video Book Now Available
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I'm excited to announce that the new PM Illustrated Audio/Video Book is now available! It's an excellent resource for visual learners studying for the PMP exam who would rather watch and listen to content rather than read it. It was... Continue reading
Posted Jan 26, 2023 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Beyond Agile presentation this Friday
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On Friday, September 30, I will be presenting a session on Beyond Agile at the HTEC Project Management Virtual Conference. The session is free to attend and is part of a program that also features Scott Ambler, Sanjiv Augustine, Nader... Continue reading
Posted Sep 27, 2022 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Extending Servant Leadership with Host Leadership
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This article talks about adding tools to the servant leader toolkit. However, let’s start by examining what servant leadership already contains. Servant leadership was popularized by Robert Greenleaf and described as a mindset and set of practices. It flips the... Continue reading
Posted Aug 6, 2022 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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From Servant Leadership to Shared Leadership
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This is part one in a series on leading agile teams from the Beyond Agile book. We will examine what leadership entails and how it applies to agile teams. Then discuss the transition from servant leadership to shared leadership. EQ... Continue reading
Posted Jun 22, 2022 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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PM illustrated - 35 PDU Bundle
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Looking for some PDUs to renew your PMP credential? Curious about the agile content added to the PMP exam since you took yours? Like to try a gamified, visual-learning experience? In partnership with Peak Business, this 35-module micro-learning suite provides... Continue reading
Posted Jun 18, 2022 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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The Evolution of Leadership
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Thanks to Improving for inviting me to speak at the recent Improving Edge Summit. It was a great conference dedicated to leadership this year. A topic near and dear to my heart and the focus of my Leading Answers blog.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 11, 2022 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Agile Adoption – Left to Right is the Way to Go
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Agile approaches "Crossed the Chasm" a decade ago. The organizations we see adopting it today are in the "Late Majority" and "Laggard" categories of Geoffrey Moore's Technology Adoption Life Cycle. As companies adopt agile because they have to / it's... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2022 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Hybrid Agile Discussion
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Upcoming Presentation: “Hybrid Agile, Stepping Stone or Quicksand?” How do you feel about hybrid agile – mixing agile approaches with non-agile approaches? Can it be useful sometimes, or is it the path to compromise and failure? (A great way to... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2022 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Emotional Intelligence for Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Project Managers - #3
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<This is post 3 in a multi-post series about EI and leadership taken from my book Beyond Agile. Check out Post 1 and Post 2 first if you have not seen them. In this article, we will dive into personal... Continue reading
Posted Mar 9, 2022 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Emotional Intelligence for Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Project Managers - #2
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This is post #2 in a multi-post series about EI and leadership taken from my book Beyond Agile. Check out Post #1 first, if you have not seen it already. In this article, we will explore what EI is and... Continue reading
Posted Mar 2, 2022 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Emotional Intelligence for Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Project Managers - #1
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I am long overdue for posting to LeadingAnswers.com. I have been busy finishing the content and games over at PMillustrated.com. While explaining project management through cartoon animals is fun, I wanted to post some meatier content here. This is the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 27, 2022 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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January 2022 - PMI-ACP Supported Self-Study Group
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The next 7-week PMI-ACP Supported Study Group with Mike Griffiths is starting soon. Register by January 15th for Earlybird pricing of just $99 (regular $199). This live 7-week online book-club / self-study program works as follows: Read one chapter of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 2, 2022 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Beyond Agile – Relentlessly Reduce Process
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Stefan Wolpers recently reposted his survey “Would you recommend SAFe®?” on LinkedIn and it prompted some excellent discussion. One comment I liked by Maxwell Lamers summarized a common view of SAFe® succinctly as “The framework itself is built on solid... Continue reading
Posted Dec 17, 2021 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Beyond Agile Gratitude #2 - Lean Thinking and the Kanban Method
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Now that my Beyond Agile book has been published, I would like to thank people who helped shape its content and ideas. David Anderson has done much to popularize and explain lean and the Theory of Constraints thinking. The Kanban... Continue reading
Posted Nov 19, 2021 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Beyond Agile Gratitude #1 – Weaving People and Process
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Now that my Beyond Agile book has been published, I would like to thank some people who helped shape its content and ideas. Alistair Cockburn and Joshua Kerievsky helped me appreciate the balance between people-focussed activities and effective processes. “...Agile... Continue reading
Posted Oct 21, 2021 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Announcing “PM Illustrated” – The Fun Way to Prepare for Your PMP® Exam
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I know, “Fun” and “PMP Exam” are rarely used in the same sentence. When I studied for my PMP credential in 2001, materials were text-based, process-focused, and dry! Unfortunately, not much has changed since then. However, fun is a serious... Continue reading
Posted Aug 20, 2021 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Beyond Agile - Webinar Recording
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Last month I did a 20-minute overview of my new Beyond Agile book for the Washington D.C. Lean-Agile MeetUp group hosted by Sanjiv Augustine. I outline how Beyond Agile grew from studying high-performing teams and trying to distill what they... Continue reading
Posted Jun 18, 2021 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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PMI-ACP and My New Book “Beyond Agile: Achieving Success with Situational Knowledge and Skills”
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It has been 10 years since the PMI-ACP exam was created, and I published my PMI-ACP Exam Prep book. I recall the Steering Committee meetings where we discussed what we believed was necessary for agile practitioners and team leaders to... Continue reading
Posted May 30, 2021 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Announcing My New Book “Beyond Agile”
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I am excited to announce my new book “Beyond Agile: Achieving success with situational knowledge and skills“ is launching. It is available now from RMC in paperback or electronic form here. This post explains the name and motivation for the... Continue reading
Posted May 28, 2021 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Exploring the Scope (and Opportunities) of Digital Transformation
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A digital transformation means far more than offering products and services digitally. That is undoubtedly the core of it, but as this article illustrates, it goes far beyond. To start, let's review a simplified business model for a traditional bricks-and-mortar... Continue reading
Posted Feb 18, 2021 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog
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This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk... Continue reading
Posted Jan 16, 2021 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Navigating Complexity: Zoom Towns and the 'K' Shaped Recovery
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A theme for the 2019 World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland was the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” It was concerned with how a combination of technologies are changing the way we live, work and interact. Few people in... Continue reading
Posted Dec 15, 2020 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Illuminating the Intangibles of Agile
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We intuitively know that a successful agile adoption requires more than copying agile practices. It needs more than just working in short iterations and having daily stand-up meetings. But can we label those missing ingredients? You may have seen the... Continue reading
Posted Nov 20, 2020 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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A New Litmus Test for Agile in 2020
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When should we be using an agile approach for our project? The agile convert might claim “Always,” just as the predictive enthusiast could scream “Never!” For the rest of us, more objective tests and selection criteria are useful. Agile suitability... Continue reading
Posted Nov 8, 2020 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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Agile Communications Plans
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Dolphins are easier to track than submarines. They surface more often and are usually within view of where you last saw them. Subs, on the other hand, can disappear for months or years at a time, and it is difficult... Continue reading
Posted Nov 1, 2020 at LeadingAnswers: Leadership and Agile Project Management Blog
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