Category Archives: Change

One-on-Ones in Agile (Transitions)

Posted on April 10, 2013 by

Have you ever had regular One-on-Ones (“O3s”)? If not, I think you’re missing out. Mark Horstman and Mike Auzenne describe them as: 30 minute conversation every (other) week Between a manager and one of her team members. (Each team member gets … Continue reading →

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Hyper-productive teams? Ruthlessly pruned backlog!

Posted on November 8, 2012 by

Most of the agile transitions I’ve had insight into were mandated by management. They were motivated by an ever-growing pile of requests that exceeds the developers’ capacity several times over. The tales of “hyper-productive teams” lead them to think Scrum … Continue reading →

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Is Scrum a Shu-Stage of Agile?

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

In my filter bubble there is this trend of teams switching to Kanban after they’ve used Scrum for a while. Typically they had been successful with Scrum and switched to Kanban, when they felt they’d taken Scrum as far as … Continue reading →

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Retrospective fatigue? How to increase follow-through on action items

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

The retrospective is my personal favorite among the Scrum meetings. Why? Even if there were no other meeting, role, or artefact, retrospectives enable you to invent everything else you need to improve. In theory at least. When I was just … Continue reading →

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Want Change? Make “your” way the easiest way

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

If you want to establish new ways to do things (i.e. processes), make sure that this new way is the easiest route for people to reach their goal. If the old way is easier, the new one won’t ever be … Continue reading →

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Tribal Leadership – The 1-Page Cheat Sheet

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

Summary: I’ve made a 1-page cheat sheet for “Tribal Leadership”: Download as PDF Long version: Last year I hit a rough patch at work: I had this vivid image of how great things could be and no clue how to … Continue reading →

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Don’t keep stuck to your daily routine

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

There’s a certain type of quiet movie that I like a lot. It usually starts with a stranger entering a closed group, e.g. a village and the dynamics that enfold because of it. “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the … Continue reading →

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7 Stages of Emotional Dynamics during Change

Posted on August 14, 2011 by

Two weeks ago some colleagues and me took part in a seminar on “Removing Impediments / Change Management”. The main point we took away is that change is all about emotions: Each change invokes emotions – positive and negative ones. … Continue reading →

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Change through regularity

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

The title is not as contradictory as it may seem: Agile and scrum stress the need to be flexible, to change and adapt. But let’s not forget that there’s also merit in the steady, the regular, the predictable. Humans are … Continue reading →

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Want Change? Start with yourself!

Posted on July 10, 2011 by

[This is a follow-up of my post about three crucial books.] The title really says it all: If you want change, you have to take some sort of action, to make it happen. It won’t happen by itself, with you … Continue reading →

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