Here we talk about all things agile, leadership, teams, and mindfulness to help you along your organizational evolution.
The Electrifying Duo
🚀 Innovation Unleashed: AI Meets Domain-Driven Design! 🧠 Don’t miss the electrifying duo of Darren Hoevel and Rob Brown at
Bryan Miles at AgileDC 2024
Exciting news! Bryan Miles will be speaking at AgileDC 2024, sharing insights on leadership development that go beyond the “born
The Future of Agile Conferences
By: Darren Hoevel It would be an understatement to say that the corporate landscape has changed significantly over the last
Pliant Solutions Celebrates FEMA!
On March 29, 2024, the FEMA Grants Management Modernization (GMM) Program reached full operational capability (FOC). This was a years-long
We’re Going to TriAgile!
We’re excited to announce that Bryan Miles, Principal of Leadership Development and Coaching, has been selected to speak at the
Call me Jeff — or anything other than Agile Coach
What happened to all the Agile Coaches? Over the past year, dedicated agile contracts and, specifically, Agile Coach and Scrum
Agile Acquisitions
Darren Hoevel, President of Pliant Solutions, talks with Johnathan Mostowski, Founder & Principal of Agile Acquisitions, about aligning government acquisitions
Pliant Solutions Empowers Marnie Custom Homes with Leadership Coaching
Pliant Solutions LLC Empowers Marnie Custom Homes with Innovative Leadership Coaching Program Bethany Beach, DE – Pliant Solutions LLC is pleased
The Teardrop Model
Avoid Crying About Accountability with Our Teardrop Model As wonderful as agile is in creating empowered teams, it can also
Agile Pain Point: Product Debt
What’s Product Debt? Product Debt is the culmination of competing business needs, functionality requests, hastily made design decisions, quick fixes,
I’m Sick of the Word “Transformation”
I’m sick of the word transformation. There, I said it. Organizational transformation, at least in the business world I’m in, implies
Partnerships Build Spacecraft
It wasn’t the launch (or lack thereof) of SpaceX’s first American commercial crewed rocketed spacecraft on May 27th that got me
Agile After Dark
Be sure to catch Darren Hoevel’s session on Daring Leadership at Agile Baltimore’s Agile After Dark on March 25, 2020! LEADER: Anyone who
Reminder: Keep an Open Mind
Homophily: Birds of a feather flock together. A large number of network studies have shown we generally surround ourselves with
2020 NCMA Tyson’s Leadership Summit
As a panelist at the NCMA Tyson’s Leadership Summit on March 11, 2020, Darren Hoevel will dive into the disucssion on Overcoming Obstacles and
WTF is Adaptive Leadership?
Darren Hoevel and Bryan Miles are Presenting at InnoVAte Virginia 2020 on March 27, 2020 and University of Maryland’s Project Management Symposium on May 8, 2020! Adaptive
Agile Charm 2020
Be sure to catch Darren Hoevel at Agile Charm in Baltimore, MD on February 13, 2020! The World Needs Brave
Don’t wait for the perfect time. Start by visualizing the work.
If You Wait to Start Your Agile Initiative, You May Never Actually Start. If you’re waiting for the perfect time
Your Scrum Team is Not Delivering
“Each framework or methodology or certification is not the holy grail for how something should be done. Now I’m a
Certifiably Certified
I’m up to something like 5,000 contacts on LinkedIn (I’m a people person, damnit!). It’s safe to say, I don’t
The Unspoken Practice of Agility
Last week I hosted an Agile Lunch and Learn for a government client. Our Lunch and Learns have typically been
Metrics that Matter
“Every line is the perfect length if you don’t measure it.” – Marty Rubin So your organization has embarked upon
Product Management: A Lost Art or Holy Grail?
In the adoption of agile, organizations are transitioning from a project approach to a customer centric product delivery model. Now,
The Composition of High-Performing Teams
“Companies know that they dervice greater creativity and innovation from teamwork – but what, they wonder, makes a great team?”
Leadership’s Role in Creating Conversations for Performance and Change
Pliant Solutions would like to extend a huge Thank You! to all who attended our first Agile Innovation Series session at
Integral Agile Series: Spiral Dynamics
In this DC Organizational Agility Practitioners session, John Hughes talks about delivering impactful change through mindful awareness of people and
Coaching. What is it?
This DC Organizational Agility Practitioners presentation is about coaching. It introduces the audience to coaching from sport coaching to personal
