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Thursday, August 25, 2016

SAFe: Setting up the Value Stream level

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After various discussions about the alleged massive management overhead introduced by SAFe 4.0, let me clarify what's really brought in ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

SAFe: The structure of an Agile Release Train

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I have heard many different views of what an Agile Release Train (ART) actually is, ranging from a predetermined release schedule all the wa...
Friday, August 19, 2016

Be careful of so-called "agile coaches"!

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An agile coach is supposed to help agility "stick" within an organization. But that is not always the case. Unfortunately, the lab...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Agile learning for starters

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I have previously discussed the " cost of learning " and it's impact on the learning strategy. After establishing that we shou...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Coach, Trainer or Consultant - a false dichotomy

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There are a lot of opinions going around on the Internet concerning "coaching vs. consulting". Especially coaches who like to disc...
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Friday, July 29, 2016

The Cost of Learning

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Time and again, I read stuff like: "The role of the coach is to guide a client in solving their problems, rather than providing a solut...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Which type of agile leader are you?

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Agility relies on self-organization. Leadership is considered situational in most agile approaches. Most agilists agree that the role of an ...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Assumptions, assumptions everywhere ...

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The difficulty with any attempt to change an organization is that we're full of assumptions. Both as consultant looking into the organiz...

So, I'm not an agile coach, after all ...

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I recently applied for a Certified Enterprise Coach - and got rejected. It took me a while to get over the rejection, and I had some good di...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Guide: LeSS or SAFe - which direction?

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As an enterprise choosing an agile framework, you may be stuck with the choice: Which one is better? Having expertise in both of them, I ha...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

How SAFe deals with cost accounting

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I was asked the question "How does SAFe handle money?" - well, in a complex organization, this is a complex topic. Here is a non-c...
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Friday, July 15, 2016

SAFe impressions from a LeSS Practitioner

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I'm just now sitting through a 4-day SAFe 4.0 SPC course with Dean Leffingwell. While I would not dare call myself a SAFe expert, I can...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Guide: Achieving Self-Organization

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Based on our former model of self-organization, autonomy and trust, we have a question: "How do we achieve self-organization when we ar...