High-Performance organizations optimize the Flow of Value by creating and applying a system of patterns from lean, agile, scrum, and kanban in an agnostic way.
During the past 20 years, we have seen many frameworks for scaling agility from the team level to the overall business. SAFe, LeSS, Spotify, Holocracy, Nexus, Scrum@Scale… you name it. Every model has a different focal point, some are similar and some complement each other, in a crowdy scenario. The new conceptualization from Jurgen Appelo, …
Since its start, jazz has been characterized by improvisation. Jazz musicians learned to rely on the essential elements of a song only. They constantly play variations on the main theme, listening to ideas from other players and reacting to them, in order to create exciting and moving music. In a VUCA world, modern, agile organizations …
I am happy and thrilled to speak at BAWI – Business Analysis Workshop Italy on 19th October 2021, at 1730 CEST about business agility and Sustainability with the talk “Agile & Sustainability. Friends or Foes“.
I am quite thrilled and excited to be a speaker at the Festival Agile Trends 2021. I will be there talking about Agile and Sustainability with the talk: From Greed to Sustainability, the Agile way on September 13th @ 16.55 CEST. You can register and attend for free and you can check out the whole …
“I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – A Scandal in Bohemia, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle System 1 and System 2 thinking We use two …
A new update to the Scrum Guide has just been released today, as we celebrate Scrum’s 25th anniversary. What’s changed? Here’s my spur of the moment list of major changes: Now two goals, the new product goal and the sprint goal, are included to provide focus towards a larger objective. The product goal (not included …
In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause. Aristotle, Metaphysics 8.6 [1045a] A short history of profit in western culture The concept of profit has been part of western culture, in different forms, since the origins …
The Business Agility Report 2020 is out. The report is showing overall an 8% increase on business agility between respondants in Europe, Africa, North/South America, Asia The main accelerator for the transformation has come from COVID-19, that acted as a burning platform for change. Improving business agility has proven to be an effective response to …
Is your Organization marching in the direction of your Transformation effort? Here’s a quick way to check it out. Detecting the (lack of) alignment A Transformation strategy is intended to create value via important changes in the way people, process and technology behave and interact. However, the creation of additional value is only possible when …
