Leadership is a relationship ?
Leadership is not something one person does! It’s a relationship between leader and follower. A leader without a follower is not a leader. If you want to be a great leader, ask...
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Agility is NOT what many companies move towards with their transformation
The meme shows a typical evasive move commonly camouflaged as “Agile Transformation“. Sometimes it‘s a deliberate evasion technique, sometimes it‘s subconscious. What makes you...
Want faster time-to-market? Increase your decision-making speed!
Want faster time-to-market? Increase your decision-making speed! Many delays in building products come from long decision-making processes. In this time and age, hardly any com...
From Explosions To Success: How Some Leaders' Approach To Failure Fuels Innovation
I know many leaders who wouldn’t have congratulated their people on the explosion of a big project on launch day. The quality of good leadership is to recognize your role and y...
Agile Team Rehearsals: Proven Tactics to Boost Efficiency and Collaboration
““An important success factor for bands are rehearsals and sound checks to deliver a good performance. How do agile project teams “rehearse”?”” This was a wonderful question fr...
Top Reasons Agile Transformations Fail (and How to Avoid Them)
So many companies struggle with their move to agility – why is that? Chances are you know or are part of a company whose agile transformation got stuck half-way and failed to d...
Scrum vs Kanban
“Don‘t fret too much over the right agile framework for your company. Focus on an agile culture instead. Establishing an agile culture is the key to success. Without it, none of...
"We tried Scrum and it didn't work"
I hear this statement a lot recently. Companies claiming they tried to do Scrum, but even after a year or more it didn’t work for them. I disagree – let me tell you why. Scrum ...
Scrum will not make you agile!
Or: Would you trust a Geiger counter to save your life? Disclaimer: I love Scrum — it’s an awesome framework! But too many people believe that Scrum would make their company ag...