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Thursday, October 19, 2017

How splitting work kills companies

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"Divide and Conquer" is a common strategy employed to solve problems by splitting it into pieces, which then can be solved in para...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

DIRFT is misleading - Philip B. Crosby got it wrong!

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Maybe you heard the slogan "Do It Right the Rirst Time" (DIRFT) before? Well, I have - and in the past, I firmly believed in it. N...
Friday, July 21, 2017

How do you identify a proper agile coach?

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One of my personal pet peeves is the huge amount of "imposters", i.e. self-proclaimed, potentially even certified "Agile Coac...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Being a Product Owner

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I am a Product Owner. I'm on a mission to create great products. I don't have a title Some clients call me "Agile Product M...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

The Scrum Manifesto

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We are uncovering better ways of earning money by getting certified and helping others to do it. Through this, we have come to value: E...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Shu-Ha-Ri: Can't we customize?

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Let's have a short discussion on Shu-Ha-Ri and how it should affect your learning journey. Many people feel that " This (or that) ...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Changing priorities - what to do?

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" A team mentioned the following: We are unable to focus on the work, resources are being borrowed mid flight, we have to wait for env...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

The 4 drivers of a holarchy

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Concluding the introduction to the basis of a holarchy, let us explore briefly what drives a holarchy: The 4 drivers of a holarchy 1 - ...

10 Principles of a holarchy

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How can you make a  holarchy happen? First, you need to establish the values of a holarchy to create a foundation, then you must establish...

The 8 core values of a holarchy

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In a recent post, I introduced the holarchy as an alternative organizational structure. Let's look at the core values required to buil...
Friday, April 7, 2017

Product Owner: From business or from tech?

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There's a never-ending debate: Should a PO be chosen from the business side - or from the technical side? Let's look into this quest...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Q&A: Our Customer says that our software is buggy?

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Question : " When a stakeholder says to the Scrum team that our application has a lot bugs although the team has a good test coverage, ...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

Get NEAR - Reduce Communication Debt

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In a recent post, I introduced the topic of Communication Debt  as a pressing problem within many organizations. You might be are aware that...
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Sunday, March 19, 2017

Let's talk about Communication Debt

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During a recent discussion on LinkedIn, one comment was made that we're talking a lot about technical debt - yet not about communication...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

The "4 Re of Complexity"

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How to deal with complexity? Too often, I hear "But it's so complex". As sparked by another one of my recent posts about the o...