Tag: change management

21 December 2017 / Leadership & Management

21 New Year’s Resolutions for the Change Agent

It's become somewhat of a tradition to publish our list of New Year's Resolutions around this time of the year. If you want to see what we've done in the past years, do check the New Year's Resolutions for the PO or the New Year's Resolutions for the SM! This year, let's have a look at 21 New Years Resolutions for the Change Agent! Stop...

19 October 2016 / Agile & Scrum

Agile transitions: how communication can make them, or break them.

We all communicate and we all know it’s important. And culture is important. So important, in fact, that without the right one a company runs the risk of not achieving any of its goals. One of Larman's Laws of Organisation Behaviour also painfully shows the importance of culture and how difficult it is to nurture: Culture follows structure. Or, Culture/behavior/mindset follows system & organizational design. The way communication...

19 January 2015 / Agile & Scrum

Amazing news! Craig Larman is coming to Belgium

Who is Craig Larman? Craig Larman is the co-creator of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) with his friend and colleague Bas Vodde. He serves as an organizational design consultant, with emphasis on introducing LeSS for very large and multisite product development (often, embedded systems, telecommunications, or investment banking), and coaching executive teams to succeed with larger enterprise-level agile and lean methods adoption. He is the author of...

15 March 2013 / Engaging Workshops & Meetings

Internal Marketing is a Key Leadership Practice

The hardest part of an organization, and therefore its management, is sharing the enthusiasm with the entire organization, especially when most of the people in there are making one-tenth to one-fiftieth of what top managers make. Selling the company to their customers, or within their market segment, is a piece of cake compared to selling it to the actual people who work for it. And...

10 February 2013 / Engaging Workshops & Meetings

Mindsetter: Boost Your Change Project

Guestblog by Dave Synaeve, propellor.be Mindsetter is partly a powerful simulation of changing organisations and the resistance they can encounter. This serious game gives insights in the cycle of change, the reactions of people on change and the different kinds of resistance you can expect. Good change management involves to create buy in and making sure that stakeholders stay on track throughout the project. How...

21 January 2013 / Agile & Scrum

The Key Difference of Innovation vs Business As Usual

In times of economic crisis it is important for organizations to optimize their effectiveness in order to survive. In many cases, people jump to cost optimization, only looking at their bottom line. And there is nothing wrong with that, as long as you don't forget the role of the customers and end-users. In many cases we see a natural reaction of organizations to generalize their...