Oct 2, 2023 | Budgeting, Meme, Organization
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...
Jun 30, 2023 | Meme, Organization, Product Owner, Transformation
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 budgeting often works somewhat like this: 👏 Management decides to pursue a business...
Jun 23, 2023 | Meme, Organization, Transformation
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. 🎸 Frameworks and models are just 20% of what makes you agile. What really makes or breaks agility?...
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...
Apr 22, 2020 | Organization, Scrum, User Stories
Do you have user stories that need the expertise of more than one team? How do you organize this? The situation Your specific situation might be slightly different, but here is a common situation I have seen: The company organizes around a few technical platform teams...
