Back to the roots: 5 action points to reinvent agile coaching
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We are now at a different point with agile coaching than when we started about 20 years ago. Back then, I was a freelancer and newly qualified Scrum Master and was still mourning the lost light-heartedness that comes with simply developing software and not having to worry about much else. I had looked into development […]
Reinventing agile coaching: The crisis in the industry
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Why agile coaches are being fired and how the landscape has changed Agile coaching reinvented: Part 1 The noble origins of consulting Once a system has been created, it wants to justify its existence. I’m talking about the consulting industry: it started out as a good idea – providing knowledge from experts to companies – […]
The VSM Quick Guide: the model
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The introduction to the series on Jon Walker’s VSM quick guide. It describes the simplified VSM vocabulary as used in the rest of the steps.
VSM Quick Guide Nuggets Part 2
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About part 2: Part 2 of my series is actually Part 1 of Jon Walker’s Quick Guide. It deals with how to identify the relevant parts of the organization, in other words, very prosaically: how to find teams and value streams. The reason for my own order is simple: the first part is immediately comprehensible, […]
VSM Quick Guide Nuggets Part 1
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Digging nuggets I see a lot of new texts since I have a rowing machine in the basement. I plan every morning what movie, text, or podcast I’m going to get into in the next half hour or so. And over the course of time, a lot of things come together. I will publish at […]
The Viable System Model for Lean Practitioners
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I have developed a mapping of the Viable System Model for Lean-Agile practice. Here is a first version as a white paper. Brief introduction to the Viable System Model with a mapping to a Lean production scenario. Download german Brief introduction to the Viable System Model with a mapping to a Lean production scenario. Download […]
It always ends with the human
… or is it? The other day I was at a discussion on organizational design and development and we had some very interesting insights. Talked about a case study where the organization was deeply, transformed, the presenters were very comprehensive in outlining the reasons for changing the structures and the way of working. At the […]
The Adaptive Organization at Agile Tuesday
December 2021 Almost unnoticed, an ecosystem has developed alongside the agility we are familiar with that comes from a completely different approach: rethinking the structure and culture of a company as a whole. We are talking about further developments of holocracy, sociocracy and so on… The interest in the companies that have chosen such a […]
On the way to an adaptive organization
The adaptive organization contains many principles, contents and values of Lean and Agile takes a comprehensive look at today’s O The group The GRADO group (growing Adaptive Organizations) emerged from a series of working sessions by members of the DACH30 exchange group. What patterns are there What experiences have become mainstream What bad experiences are […]
On the way to the adaptive organization
The adaptive organization Contains many principles, contents and values of Lean and Agile takes a comprehensive look at today’s O The group The GRADO group (growing Adaptive Organizations) emerged from a series of working sessions by members of the DACH30 exchange group. What patterns are there What experiences have become mainstream What bad experiences are […]