Years in the past, I noticed blues legend Pinetop Perkins carry out in Austin. He was 95 years previous and nonetheless enjoying unimaginable boogie woogie piano.
What’s exceptional is that Perkins hadn’t began as a piano participant. He’d been a guitarist till an damage pressured him to cease enjoying guitar fully.
So he tailored.
I like that story as a result of it displays one thing essential about agile groups in addition to life usually: the necessity to examine and adapt whereas staying true to what issues most.
Through the years, Mountain Goat Software program has taken many varieties: books, public lessons, teaching, video programs, podcasts, on-line communities, and AI instruments.
However the fixed has all the time been serving to groups succeed.
Increasingly more groups are asking us to work instantly with them inside their organizations. Groups need coaching tailor-made to their particular challenges, schedules, merchandise, and methods of working.
So we’re adapting.
After our present public schedule finishes, we’ll be stepping away from public lessons and focusing our consideration on personal workforce workshops and consulting engagements.
I’m enthusiastic about this subsequent chapter.
It’s rewarding to work intently with groups, serving to them clear up actual issues in actual time, and seeing enhancements take maintain contained in the work itself.
I’ll nonetheless be speaking about agile, instructing, writing, and experimenting for a very long time but. Whether or not I’ll nonetheless be doing it at 95 with Pinetop Perkins vitality…who is aware of?
In case you’ve been enthusiastic about becoming a member of one in all our public lessons, that is the ultimate run, and we’d like to have you ever there.
Thanks for being a part of the Mountain Goat Software program journey to this point. I’m excited to share updates in regards to the future with you as nicely.
Final replace:
Might twenty second, 2026
