A summary of the seminal work by Alaistair Cockburn that gave rise to greater collaboration and co-location of developers and essential others in the early staged of the agile software development movement.

Making an impact with your communication is an essential skill for leaders at all levels and of all types.

A term coined by Alastair Cockburn to describe how prominent, visual aids help information flow between people.  Information radiators were a cornerstone of the original agile software development movement.

For communications to be effective in achieving behaviour change the received messages must be accepted. This requires trust. Acceptance of messaging requires trust in both the source of the message and the message itself.  On this page we explore what trust is and how to build it.

Taiichi Ohno, the father of the Toyota Production System, was a firm believer in “Gemba Kanri” which translates from Japanese as “workplace management”.  Gemba is the actual place of action. Gemba Walk is thus a walk to and in the gemba.

High performing  teams and workforces require high levels of autonomy.  This however requires very high levels of alignment... for which considered communication is essential.

The three amigos is the term used to describe three people, in different roles that will bring different considerations to an activity to scrutinise an increment of work before, during, and after the activity.  It's a form of effective, face to face, just in time communication.