Tag: business agility

28 November 2018 / Agile & Scrum
Experiences with teams without coding capacity

Experiences with teams without coding capacity: there should be focus on the end-2-end product Lately I’ve experienced working with Scrum Teams without coding capacity. My main conclusions: 1) principles and values of agility can certainly improve these teams and make them more effective, but without considering the end-2-end product the overall organizational agility will not increase. My second conclusion is that 2) agility in a...

17 March 2016 / Agile & Scrum
12 enemies of adaptability and what to do about it

Hierarchy Top-down, control based hierarchies discourage individual initiative, lead to slower reaction times, and divert energy to “managing up” or what is called politics. These politics will optimize your organization to CYA (Cover Your Ass), loss of productivity, and an aversion of risk, resulting in a standstill culture. Fear Command-and-control systems lead to organizations filled with anxious employees who are hesitant to take the initiative or...

24 June 2015 / Agile & Scrum
Misunderstandings on Productivity Measurements in IT

We get a lot of questions on measuring “productivity” within organisations in relation to Agile or Lean adoptions and today was no different than any other, the big productivity questions came in our direction again. This was the trigger for me to write down some things related to productivity measurements which I find valuable to share. First of all we need to distinguish between “Leading”...

1 November 2012 / Agile & Scrum
Our first public learning track: Software craftsmanship

We've been doing in-house learning and coaching tracks for a while now and we've seen the positive impact this follow-up has on companies, teams and individuals. That is why we want to bring this idea to our public training events as well. So, to validate our hypothesis that this format will also benefit people that follow public trainings, we are proud to introduce our first public...