On Wednesday, October 13, I talked about Building Blocks for Self Organization at Agile By Example. In this post you will be able to find links and references mentioned in the talk. My main point is that when moving from one way of organizing work to self organization three things need to happen: The individual …
When delivering Scrum classes I get a lot of questions. In some countries I get questions about how individual performance appraisals are delt with in Scrum. My short answer is: They are not! Scrum is team based and that does not fit very well with individual performance appraisals. The long and detailed answer is: How to …
We are pleased to announce that Esther Derby and Don Gray will be offering their 2-day Coaching Beyond the Team workshop in Malmö in May, 2016. Esther and Don are well knowned within the Agile community, having helped and coached many organizations, authored books and articles and presented at numerous conferences. Date: May 10-11 2016 Venue: Central Malmö. …
AqquNews February 2015 Hi, You are one of 265! This is the first issue of AqquNews, the newsletter from Aqqurite. 265 have signed up to recieve it. Thanks to all of you. I will create a new issue of AqquNews 4-8 times a year. AqquNews will contain information about the latest within Agile, Lean, Leadership and …
In todays Agile world we often see the need of new approaches to management. Since the nineties Agile has changed software product development. Today the need to change management approaches is emerging. The last couple of years I have noticed Radical Management, Management 3.0, Tribal Leadership, Leadership Agility, Servant Leadership, Leadership and the New Science, …
At the end of my Certified Scrum Product Owner classes I often ask the participants to summarize their learnings from the class by writing down advice to someone starting up as a Product Owner in Scrum. The collected advice is often good. The insights shown by the participants are impressive. You can find the top …
I’m speaking at the Scrum Gathering in Paris, September 23-25, 2013. Session: Scrum meets Management 3.0 – how to apply the latest management ideas to strengthen Scrum Track: Empower Agile Culture with others cultures, domains and approaches Duration: 90 Minutes Timeslot: Tuesday, September 24, 13:30 – 15:00 Room: Auteuil Session Type: Workshop Level: ♥♥
I will speak at the Lean Tribe Gathering 15 in Malmö, Sweden on April 24. The title of my talk is “What Managers say about Scrum – before and after”. The talk will be in Swedish and the Swedish title is “Vad chefer säger om Scrum – ett före och efter perspektiv”.
Last year I did an inhouse Scrum training at a small company, let’s call them SmallCo. SmallCo have had a small team working according to Scrum and they are looking for possibilities to expand the use of Scrum. As many companies SmallCo are facing challenges int their implementation of Scrum. One of the obvious ones …
Today many teams and companies are turning to Agile product development. Scrum is among the most popular choices. The promises from Agile are several. Still it is good advice to do a couple of things before you go Agile. In the following I will list and discuss five things that I propose you do before …