Are Your Most Respected Practices Now Your Greatest Risk?
Why old rituals won’t protect you—and how to outgrow your sword worship.A samurai in his armour in the 1860s. Hand-colored photograph by Felice BeatoImagine a world shaped...
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How Apollo 13 Proved the Power of Distributed Leadership
April 13, 1970Apollo 13 is gliding silently toward the moon when, suddenly, the spacecraft shudders with a deafening bang. In Mission Control in Houston, the room falls silent....
Agile Transformations Fail in Isolation—Here’s How to Make Them Thrive
Have you ever watched a massive organization try to “go Agile” only to see it fizzle out faster than you can say scrum master? Maybe you’ve witnessed leadership sending teams of...
The Hidden Flaw in Your Agile Transformation: It’s Not What You Think!
As agile minds we often flatten hierarchies and strip away bureaucracy. Simplifying organizational structures and processes—the outer structures—is often seen as the key to beco...
The Surprising Way Daily Stand-Ups Foster Deep Work
In agile environments, the bane of productivity often comes dressed in the guise of constant interruptions. Imagine trying to navigate through a complex coding challenge or wrap...
Why Managing Dependencies Is Dangerous And How To Do Better
When it comes to dependencies, most teams and managers immediately ask, “How do we manage these dependencies?” But are we asking the right question? What’s a Dependency?A depen...
The Manifesto Most Organizations Live By
Ah, the hallowed halls of traditional management, where the air is thick with the scent of printed reports and the sound of keyboards clacking away into oblivion. Here, in this ...
How to easily destroy agility
If you don‘t set clear goals & priorities on top management level, you‘ll stir unhealthy conflict & confusion in teams. It‘s not uncommon for managers to spend half of their wo...
Warning: A hybrid agile/waterfall organization should NOT be your goal.
A hybrid agile/waterfall organization should NOT be your goal. An agile/waterfall hybrid is a temporary state that exists during transformations. It‘s not the state you‘re aimi...
How to slow down your business
If you can change direction every 2 weeks ?, but you only decide to change direction once a year ?, you‘re not agile. Agility is far too often confined to the delivery organiza...
Your budgeting kills agility!
Agility is much more than teaching teams to deliver in sprints. If your goal is to tackle the challenges of today, you’d better become agile on all levels. Traditional budgeti...
Are you sweating over picking the right agile framework?
Whether you use SAFe, LeSS, Scrum, Kanban … is NOT the important success factor for agility. Just as picking the best electric guitar is not gonna make you a rock star. ? Frame...
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...
How to split a user story between two teams?
Do you have user stories that need the expertise of more than one team? How do you organize this? The situationYour specific situation might be slightly different, but here is ...