One of the podcasts I subscribe to is The Agile Toolkit by Bob Payne. It mostly consists of him interviewing interesting people at conferences, and invariably I pick up interesting snippets of thought and/or knowledge.

Last weeks’ podcast contains a presentation by Pollyana Pixton, Veep of the Agile Project Leadership Network. She shares some great insights into how to introduce agile/lean into the enterprise, and gives one extremely interesting business case of a Brazilian company gone to the agile extreme - and seeing business booming against the background of a struggling economy. Very recommended talk.

On a related note, I found this nugget from an eBay colleague. He may sound evangelical to an outsider when discussing what is on his badge, but I’m sorry to say - so far my conclusion is that he’s right on the money when he talks about the company’s dealing with the Values and Behaviors. I’d really like to find more people at eBay like him and help getting the shop leaner and meaner .

BTW - I took some time to dig up references about the business case. The guy is named Ricardo Semler and you’ll find plenty of references to him and his business, Semco, plastered all over the web. I’m surely going to check out his book, “the seven-day weekend” (Chapter One here courtesy of Inc).

Also found a lecture at MIT/Sloan by him.

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