Why old rituals won’t protect you—and how to outgrow your sword worship.
Organization
How Apollo 13 Proved the Power of Distributed Leadership
Understand the unique leadership style that enabled Apollo 13’s survival. Empowering teams can lead to extraordinary outcomes.
Agile Transformations Fail in Isolation—Here’s How to Make Them Thrive
How to make agile transformations way more successful?
The Hidden Flaw in Your Agile Transformation: It’s Not What You Think!
Learn how building the inner structure of individuals within organizations is crucial for fostering agility and collaboration.
The Surprising Way Daily Stand-Ups Foster Deep Work
Achieve deep work and increase productivity by tackling constant interruptions. Discover how the daily stand-up can help you focus.
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?
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.
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 workday resolving conflicts that bubble up to them. Many of these conflicts stem from...
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 aiming for. Agility and waterfall come with different values and beliefs. You cannot simply...
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 organization. But without agility on the portfolio level, you‘re not actually using that delivery...