Words | Noel Warnell

Over 250 blog posts from the last 8 years...

Yeah, yeah, but that’s just theory…

Ever heard of booklore? - It’s learning or knowledge acquired from books, rather than through practical experience. In the agile...

How to become a product manager - for yourself!

In the majority of large organisations I work with, the product management capability is weak. Typically it's because the people in the...

The easiest coaching constellation exercise for professional coaches. Ever.

Sometimes coaching clients can get stuck internally. They're only thinking about the possibilities inside themselves. As a professional...

30 Coaching Questions about placement, proximity and the environment...

When clients start talking about where they are, or where they want (or not) to be, I smile as it opens the door for endless possibilities..

Agile Bullshit

Most agile practitioners have heard plenty of bullshit over the years. Why not be playful with this and use the Agile bullshit cards?!

Some more notes on speed reading

Speed reading is riddled with hype and misconceptions, so here's a quick list of things that speed reading is and is not. Speed Reading -...

3 surprising things I learnt on the way to becoming an accredited Kanban trainer

It's funny how things turn out sometimes isn't it...? Sitting in a room in 2018, as a student attending a Kanban system design course...

8 super simple ways to read a metric crap-ton* of books in 2023

If you've a curious mind and a penchant for books, chances are you have a leaning tower of them piled up somewhere in your home or...

Leading vs. Managing vs. Coaching

Following some interesting conversations around this topic recently, I joined forces with Peter Gandy to articulate how we perceive and...

5 Reasons Value Stream Mapping is a key tool in digital transformation

Why do many Digital Transformations fail meet their objectives? Because of misalignment of teams and departments and the waste and...

14 lessons in 14 months...

Receiving a bottle of champagne in the post in October marked 1 year since joining Reason. As I opened it on Jan 1st 2023 to mark the end...

10 things I learnt from being 365 days sober

Ever had a dog rough hangover where the words “I’m never drinking again!” escape your dry, acid breathed mouth? What about feeling shame...