Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching
How many times have you “improved” something in your organization, but the improvements didn’t last long? Or how about quick fixes that ended up having the opposite effect! And when was the last time you improved something and went far beyond your usual experience and thinking?
Gunslinger’s Retro — a fast agile Retrospective
One nice evening a team member told me: “tomorrow morning see if you can do a quick retrospective”. After “scruming” for 18 consecutive two-week sprints I could definitely relate to that.
Industry News & Analysis
10 Predictions for the Unpredictable Agile World
It’s always ironic to write predictions for the future of Agile. The adoption, development and use of agile approaches are by their very nature unpredictable and complex. How Agile will be used and deliver value in the future is ultimately unpredictable. But the Agile world is a big one, and just like any super tanker, it takes time to change course, which gives me the luxury of highlighting the trends that I believe will continue or grow over the next year.
Taming Complexity
In business, complexity gets bad press. That’s not surprising. It can be cognitively demanding to understand how a system or organization made up of many very different interconnected elements actually works. But the fact that such systems or organizations are difficult to understand doesn’t make them inherently bad. In addition to its more obvious costs, complexity confers critical benefits, especially in dynamic and uncertain environments. In the following pages we draw on our experience and perspectives in business, biology, and physics to offer some reflections on the nature, benefits, and costs of complexity and provide some guidance on managing it in business organizations.
The Latest from Retrium
Why Your Developers Hate Retrospectives (And How to Get Them to Fall in Love Again)
The way some developers feel about sitting through a retrospective is the same way most cats feel about sitting in water — they’d really rather not.
Tips & Tricks
Three Terms in Software That We Should Consider Retiring
Sprints were originally meant to create some focused time for engineers to give them space for concentration and deep work. They are only supposed to happen periodically, and in between less intense phases of planning and learning.
Agile Outside of IT
How to Become Agile Outside of Software?
Recent story from a technology company: The CEO, seeing the software teams' outcomes from being Agile, wanted the sales team to work in an Agile manner as well. In fact, he told the VP Sales to be more like the tech teams.
Business Agility
4 Behaviors to Drive Your Company’s Agile Transformation
We live in an age of disruption. In the past, technological revolutions transpired over the course of centuries (industrialization) or millennia (agriculture). Today, breakthroughs surface in a matter of years.
Agile at Scale
Why And How Volvo Embraces Agile At Scale
“Across the world, automotive leaders are fighting to gain an advantage in the implementation of new technologies, such as autonomous driving, vehicle connectivity, electrification, and shared mobility.”
Dear Executive... Inconvenient Truths about your Agile Transformation
Most companies now either have jumped onto the Agile bandwagon, are considering it, or even in the middle of hiring consultants to help them “transform.” However, only 6% of companies think that they are “highly agile”, according to a 2017 Deloitte study. I’d like to convey a few thoughts to the executives and leaders considering an agile transformation, based on over 10 years of experience with many transformations and years sitting with executive leaders.
In Case You Missed It
Stop ‘delivering’ software with Agile — it doesn’t work
Let me start by asking you a question. Are you delivering software with Agile methods? Yes? Great! I imagine you’re doing the following?