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Executive Amazement
I’ve recently had the pleasure to work with a client where the CEO astonished me multiple times with really awesome ideas. As there’s so much management bashing going on the community, I want to share...
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Which Agile Fits Your Culture?
In recent months, we see frequent discussions about different organisational cultures, if and how “Agile” fits these cultures, and, very prominently, which flavour of Agile (Scrum, XP, Kanban) might...
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Thoughts on Words: Change
Thinking is shaped by the words we use. Management thinking is shaped by the words managers use and are used to. If we want us to evolve our mindset, we must stop to use words that carry a history of...
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Lead As If You Meant It
Inspiration and Values WHAT MATTERS NOW—HOW To Win In A World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation BY Gary Hamel I started to read Hamel’s book, and in the first...
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Two out of Three is Enough
This week, I found a post with an amazing commencement speech my favourite writer Neil Gaiman gave last week to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. It contains some gems that I wanted to keep…...
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Magnificence Mantra
Presence We are good, Destined to be great. Being great Working together We create a context For magnificence. Sometimes, we hesitate. We surrender to the past. We want certainty Like to feel safe...
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Trust Experiment
I decided to become independent, I’ll be available for work from June. I am starting this with an experiment, employing the connections I made in recent years to create options for work and...
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Trust Experiment, Day 1
Wow. About 15h after my first tweet of the Trust Experiment post, you’ve blown my mind. Before, my blog had had 245 views on its most busy day. That was in September 2011, when we organised the ALE2011...
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Trust Experiment — Options
Since I started the Trust Experiment, many have asked me, “What can you do?” or “What do you want to do?” And the honest answer to this question is, at least partially: I do not know. Second Order...
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Aufrichtige Empfindsamkeit ist der neue Hardcore
Soft Skills are the new Hard Skills ist der Titel meines Tracks bei der nächsten OOP in München. Gestern habe ich Tobias Mayers Artikel Heartfelt Emotionalism is the New Hardcore erwähnt (jetzt hier...
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Boss Suffering Stories
Depending on the kind of organisation and the way the boss ended up at the top of it, totally different issues may limit their or the organisation’s effectiveness. A founder has different challenges...
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Scrum in Stories: Sam Gamgee
I recently introduced Hero Feedback at a client company. The idea of archetypes and role models from famous stories resonated with people. When they wanted to find a better name for the Scrum Master...
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Reading the Agile Manifesto
I’ve been uncovering better ways of becoming agile by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work I’ve come to read the manifesto from different angles. Hint: These are interpretations of an...
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How Play4Agile Changed My Life
Play4Agile Play4Agile has been the most transformative gathering I’ve attended. It’s been substantial in my personal growth, and the connections I’ve made in the agile community. This is my P4A story…...
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Beyond Roles in Scrum
In this post we will explain how we can move to shared responsibility by focusing away from roles in Scrum. (This is a joint post with Michael Sahota) Build the Right thing. Build it Right. Build it...
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Der Agile Entdecker
Gemeinsamer Post mit Sandra Reupke-Sieroux und Urs Reupke. The People’s Scrum Am 22. Mai 2013 hat mich Tobias Mayer gefragt, ob ich sein Buch “The People’s Scrum” ins Deutsche übertragen möchte. Ich...
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Soft Skills are the new Hard Skills at OOP 2015
This year, I hosted the “Soft Skills are new Hard Skills” track at OOP, a main German software conference. It was rated the best track of the conference according to attendees’ feedback. Apparently...
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De-Scaling Inspirations
De-Scale Your Organisation! You deserve to love what you do. Our environment has not evolved in a way that helps us realising that. This talk explains why and how that is so, and what to do to make it...
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Innovation Requires Forgiveness
Safe-to-fail experiments for product and process are not enough. We also need safe-to-fail interactions for people. Innovation requires forgiveness. Last week at Agile2014, I did this pecha kucha in...
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Liquid Scrum
We’re translating Tobias Mayer’s The People’s Scrum into German. Tobias asked us to create a spirited rather than literal translation, adding some of our own material to the book. We’re nearly done...
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