We Can't Fix Every Problem - Mike Cohn

At almost every monthly Q&A session for my AMC members, someone asks me how to solve dysfunctional management challenges. I hear it all:
 

And more. Yes, more.

I feel compelled to point this out: We cannot fix every problem.

We owe it to our employers to try. But our employers owe us a culture in which we can succeed. 
 

When they don’t provide that culture, we have limited options.
 

If you are excited to build a strong agile team but the organization assigns your team a product owner who insists on telling the team what to do and has no willingness to change or improve, you probably aren’t going to be successful.
 

Yes. Try to educate the person. Try to persuade the person. Expose the bad behavior to stakeholders with the hope of garnering support there. 

But if none of that works, accept that you’re in a position you cannot change. 
Focus your energy on things you can affect. And accept or move on from the unfortunate things in our work environments you cannot. You can be successful. But not every company culture will let you fully succeed with agile

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