May 19, 2023 | Agile Values, Meme, Transformation
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 the people who you want to follow you what they expect from you. Then act...
May 12, 2023 | Agile Values, Meme, Organization, 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 agile is not a set of roles or the implementation of a framework. What makes you agile is a...
May 5, 2023 | Agile Values, Meme, Transformation
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 company can afford to have a slow decision-making process. Some factors slowing down decision...
Apr 25, 2023 | Agile Values, Meme
(“The rocket exploded. So why did SpaceX pop champagne?” is a quote from The New York Times) 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...
Oct 4, 2021 | Agile Values, Music & Agility, Scrum Master
“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 from the audience at my talk “Music & Agility”. I want...
Dec 30, 2020 | Agile Values, Transformation
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 deliver the big promises of agility. At this point you may doubt whether agility really...
