It's go time!

In recent weeks (Ok, let's be honest. It's been months), I have had many well-respected people in the Agile Community tell me that I need to:

• write a book
• write a blog
• tell my unique career journey story

Something about what I have shared thus far has been inspiring to them. They want more.

So what do you do when Agile thought leaders tell you that you need to put your thoughts out there too?

You sit there and think about it for a long while. Let it marinate.

But why not just do it, as Nike says? What's the hold up?

Well, it comes down to something I talk about about all the time: Scrumposter Syndrome. That feeling you get when you put yourself into a bigger arena with people ahead of you on the journey. You'll start to notice fear floating around in your head that they might turn around and tell you to take a hike. In other words, your tribe will reject you.

This when I call upon one of my go-to experts on vulnerability, Brené Brown, for guidance. Her message is always clear: If you aim for personal growth, you will bump up against your comfort zone. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. Expect to get kicked around by people, but in the end, you will stand up and become a stronger leader. Justin Welsh says the same thing, albeit differently.

With that in mind, I always do the hard thing anyway. As I said in one of my Agile Coach job interviews last year, "I ain't scurred." (PS they still hired me.)

So what will I be exploring with you here?

With this Linkedin Newsletter, I am committing to a bi-weekly personal retrospective to:

• share my varied career and life experiences, most importantly those that I bring from outside of software development
• how those experiences have shaped my unique worldview as an Agile Coach and how I apply them in new ways
• offer you a different way to think about and approach challenges you may be facing in your organization

Although I love Scrum and will touch upon it, I am more interested in why something designed to help people is malfunctioning so massively. And what we should do about that moving forward.

As a result, I will tap into subjects such as:

• How the Industrial Education System leads to the failure of Agile
• Applying scientific concepts to drive organizational change
• Rewiring the human brain for systems thinking
• Walking the Agile Walk
• Using Emotional Intelligence to rethink broken corporate culture

I look forward to sharing with you and hearing your feedback. Thank you for subscribing to this newsletter.

Patty