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Scaling Agile, steep mountains have slippery slopes
A lot of IT companies are trying to work with Agile. And most of them are having some sort of success. But the bigger the company the more difficult it gets. Getting Scrum to work with development...
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Don’t start with the vacancy, start with the question
“Hi we want to hire a Agile coach with LeSS or SAFe. Can you provide us with some training and we will succeed.” Well I hate to say this, but this does not work. The first big question you have to ask...
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More with LeSS
For a while now I’m coaching and training Scrum. And for a while I had the feeling that, even though Scrum works, it is very hard to get it to work in a larger environment. so I needed something extra....
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The Curriculum Vitae is history
Let’s face it. The Curriculum Vitae (CV) does not work. Curriculum vitae is a Latin expression which can be loosely translated as [the] course of [my] life according to Wikipedia and is used by many of...
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With law our land shall rise, but it will perish with lawlessness
The Agile Manifesto was written in February of 2001 by seventeen independent-minded software practitioners . While the participants didn’t agree about much, they found consensus around four main...
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Functioneringsgesprek en beoordelingsgesprek zijn niet meer van deze tijd
De welbekende jaarlijkse of halfjaarlijkse feedback gesprekken werden eind vorige eeuw ontwikkeld om de prestaties van werknemers meetbaar te maken. Functionerings– en beoordelingsgesprekken gaan ervan...
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Trust the bike
A while ago I read a parody of the Agile Manifesto at a Agile Coach Gathering. Myself and other coaches laughed about this. It is often that when agile coaches meet that we laugh about things. And...
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Kill the hybrid
Picture by Sarah Derememer Often I venture into companies that already started to use some sort of Agile way of working like with Scrum or Kanban. When it concerns a large company, frameworks like...
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Enjoy your trip, follow the map
I stumbled upon this image. Christopher Webb designed this London Subway map of all the different ways to work. It has to do with Agile thinking and different frameworks and methods to work in this way...
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Our agile scan is zero. Great!
At some point in every company that is doing some sort of change towards Lean or Agile, the big question is asked. “Are we agile or Lean enough?”. So coaches start being busy with all sorts of scans to...
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