Josh Anderson and I recorded a shared podcast with Jeff Bubolz & Jeff Maleski of the AgileWire podcast.
While we rambled a bit (mostly caused by me) across a variety of topics, it was a lot of fun.
One of the tangents we went on was understanding the agile maturity (readiness, culture) of an organization by the presence of certain words in the overall culture. This would cross everyone…teams to senior leaders.
There would be words or phrases that would indicate a less mature/ready culture and other words that would indicate more maturity. It would be the overall usage and trending of all of the words that would be most interesting and indicative of overall maturity.
(and please don’t get hung up by the word maturity, you could just as easily say readiness or receptiveness or fertility)