“Why are development and operations always at odds with each other?”, and other interesting organizational behaviors explored through Pete’s latest keynote delivered to the Agile Prague Conference in September 2019. ...
Pete Behrens facilitates a conversation about the upcoming Trail Ridge Certified Agile Leadership 2 (CAL 2) 2019 Program. Special thanks to three 2018 CAL 2 Graduates for sharing their stories… Karen Kemerling, President & ...
You only have 1 month left to register for our once-a-year CAL 2 Program.This intensive practice-oriented 11-month program kicks off on March 11. Practice@Work We practice each CAL 1 Topic in depth through this 11-month program, from ...
Relaxed Climate? In our popular Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) 1 Workshop, we play a game in which participants identify the values of various culture types. One value that tends to find an interesting home is Relaxed Climate. In the ...
I have been leading a number of agile meetups recently speaking about the topic of agile leadership. Through this journey an important message has begun emerging focusing on three main questions: Why are we talking about Agile at all? ...
Pete Behrens shares stories on the importance of leadership in effective organizational agility.
In October of this year, I presented a Keynote at the Agile Bodensee in Konstance, Germany. Enjoy.
“Lean start-up has changed nothing.” – Steve Blank Don’t take my word for it, take it from the one who founded the Lean Startup movement – Steve Blank. In a recent interview with Kurt Nickisch of the ...
In March of this year, I presented a Keynote at the Agile Leadership Day in Cologne, Germany. And rather than have you sit through a full 45 minutes of that presentation, I have compiled a few highlights from the session to share with ...
I was recently interviewed by RocketNine Solutions about why leaders should attend a Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) Workshop. I have posted a compilation of a few of the most common questions I hear and what you might expect from ...
Suraj Bramania, with AgileMindset.com provides an overview of the Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) Workshop. A quote about the value of the workshop… There are many certification courses out there. One, out of which, I did get to ...
I bet you have been asked to either improve the productivity of your teams or justify your teams performance. How did you respond to that request? Did you hem and haw and talk about how hard they are working? Did you point to their ...
One of our community leaders, John Miller, has introduced agile in schools – increasing collaboration, self-direction and learning through team-based approaches.
Over the past 100 years we have successfully engineered complicated outcomes – we put men on the moon, we successfully execute brain surgery, we construct 100+ story buildings, and we can travel across the globe without losing ...
One of the most challenging concepts in Agile for companies (Product Owners) is the decision on what to focus on for upcoming product deliveries. As I share in my Product Owner (CSPO) workshops, the PO role most difficult (and most ...
I received an email today from a client who was appreciative of the private Agile Leadership workshop we conducted back in June. He included a picture of one of the main hallways in their office, sporting all of the flip charts we ...
I would be remiss to exit this Thanksgiving weekend without one more Thank You! It takes a lot to run a company, even a small one like Trail Ridge. And while I am the face of this organization, and often get the bulk of the praise and ...
Trail Ridge Consulting been in business for over 11 years (since August of 2005) with an unwavering mission – to help leaders improve business results through empowered high-performing teams focused on their customer’s ...
In a recent Freakonomics podcast on “In praise of Incrementalism”, Stephen Dubner showcases how substantial change occurs incrementally over time, rather than big bang revolutions. He illustrates this through civil-rights ...
What do agile leaders do and how does this differ from traditional leadership? In one sense, you might consider agile leadership to be simply “good leadership” or “healthy leadership”. However, agile leadership ...
For the past 5 years, Trail Ridge Consulting has “adopted” Haiti as one of our key global outreach areas – as the country has continued to recover from the earthquake in 2010. Jana Zimmerman, our Outreach Catalyst at ...
Introducing a new Program – Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) by the Scrum Alliance. Pete Behrens, who led the initiative in creating this program, along with others on the program design team, share their insights into the reason ...
My recent talk at Agile Leadership Day in Zurich, Switzerland. Are you interested in scaling or growing agility within your organization? Then stop focusing on the organization and start with yourself!
Pete Behrens from Trail Ridge Consulting is bringing his passion for Agile to leadership. He recognizes that, while the ScrumMaster is responsible for identifying and removing impediments, it’s so often the case that the SM doesn’t ...
