Back to the roots: 5 action points to reinvent agile coaching
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]