Experiments: Try These
These are ways of working that should work, but your context may render them ineffective. Some of them have been tried, some are suggestions based on thinking only.Try these in a Safe-To-Fail environment, where lack of success will not be disastrous for you.
Scaling Self Selection
Team self-selection is a growing ‘opt-in’ approach to building successful Lean/Agile teams, with resulting reports of increased effectiveness.
Are there lessons we can learn from this in our wider Organisational Transformation approaches?
read moreBi-Modal Delivery is Inevitable. Get Over It.
GIVEN: Big Bang change is ineffective & painful
WHEN: We deliver integrated capabilities during transformation
THEN: Bi-Modal is inevitable
Coffee Rules for Curating Collaboration
Two simple, concrete changes that use coffee to build and engrain good collaborative habits.
Learning Proposal: Leading the Software Intensive Value Stream
Can we prevent the next generation of IT disasters with core learning of some key principles by would-be CIOs?
read moreUnveiling h#
h# is a revolutionary new, integrated code and method framework, based on the critical value of Radical Simplicity.
read moreGuest blog: Stepping Stones into the Future through Leadership Agility at Ericsson
Within Ericsson we have gained lots of experience from Agile Way of working!
But what about our leadership? Have we become increasingly adoptable at responding to the degree of change and complexity that pervades today’s workplace? A guest post by my dear friend Anna Sandström.
Develop Developers with Secondment Exchanges
Larger software delivery organisations should develop their people by offering secondment exchanges with non-competing organisations.
read moreScrum of Scrums: Reverse the Polarity
Don’t escalate impediments. Instead send managers to join daily standup meetings to unblock impediments, develop servant leaders and evolve a Lean culture.
read moreScrum team of leaders
When I first became managers' manager I had a dream of a Scrum team of leaders. The basic reasons for this was the same as for any Scrum team. Especially to make the team less vulnerable by giving all the same information at the same point in time (morning meetings)...
read moreLimiting Knowledge In Progress For Better Learning
Knowledge is Inventory in the Learning Process, and behaves like a queue of committed options. Constrain KIP for faster learning. This post is extending a metaphor that I haven't completely thought through, but as a way of exploring my own understanding. Metaphors are...
read moreNarrative Tropes and Transformation
Best Practises, Frameworks and Methods are the narrative tropes of transformation. Weave your telling into your culture.
read moreFunding the Development Factory: The Parable of the Airport
The dynamics of Software Development Centres closely resemble complex queuing systems such as traffic or airports. Using our everyday experience to prompt questions on the economics of why these systems are set up the way they are can give us insight into how best to...
read moreScaling Self Selection
Team self-selection is a growing ‘opt-in’ approach to building successful Lean/Agile teams, with resulting reports of increased effectiveness.
Are there lessons we can learn from this in our wider Organisational Transformation approaches?
read moreBi-Modal Delivery is Inevitable. Get Over It.
GIVEN: Big Bang change is ineffective & painful
WHEN: We deliver integrated capabilities during transformation
THEN: Bi-Modal is inevitable
Coffee Rules for Curating Collaboration
Two simple, concrete changes that use coffee to build and engrain good collaborative habits.
Learning Proposal: Leading the Software Intensive Value Stream
Can we prevent the next generation of IT disasters with core learning of some key principles by would-be CIOs?
read more
Unveiling h#
h# is a revolutionary new, integrated code and method framework, based on the critical value of Radical Simplicity.
read moreGuest blog: Stepping Stones into the Future through Leadership Agility at Ericsson
Within Ericsson we have gained lots of experience from Agile Way of working!
But what about our leadership? Have we become increasingly adoptable at responding to the degree of change and complexity that pervades today’s workplace? A guest post by my dear friend Anna Sandström.
Develop Developers with Secondment Exchanges
Larger software delivery organisations should develop their people by offering secondment exchanges with non-competing organisations.
read more
Scrum of Scrums: Reverse the Polarity
Don’t escalate impediments. Instead send managers to join daily standup meetings to unblock impediments, develop servant leaders and evolve a Lean culture.
read moreScrum team of leaders
When I first became managers' manager I had a dream of a Scrum team of leaders. The basic reasons for this was the same as for any Scrum team. Especially to make the team less vulnerable by giving all the same information at the same point in time (morning meetings)...
read moreLimiting Knowledge In Progress For Better Learning
Knowledge is Inventory in the Learning Process, and behaves like a queue of committed options. Constrain KIP for faster learning. This post is extending a metaphor that I haven't completely thought through, but as a way of exploring my own understanding. Metaphors are...
read moreNarrative Tropes and Transformation
Best Practises, Frameworks and Methods are the narrative tropes of transformation. Weave your telling into your culture.
read moreFunding the Development Factory: The Parable of the Airport
The dynamics of Software Development Centres closely resemble complex queuing systems such as traffic or airports. Using our everyday experience to prompt questions on the economics of why these systems are set up the way they are can give us insight into how best to...
read moreScaling Self Selection
Team self-selection is a growing ‘opt-in’ approach to building successful Lean/Agile teams, with resulting reports of increased effectiveness.
Are there lessons we can learn from this in our wider Organisational Transformation approaches?
read moreBi-Modal Delivery is Inevitable. Get Over It.
GIVEN: Big Bang change is ineffective & painful
WHEN: We deliver integrated capabilities during transformation
THEN: Bi-Modal is inevitable
Coffee Rules for Curating Collaboration
Two simple, concrete changes that use coffee to build and engrain good collaborative habits.
Learning Proposal: Leading the Software Intensive Value Stream
Can we prevent the next generation of IT disasters with core learning of some key principles by would-be CIOs?
read moreUnveiling h#
h# is a revolutionary new, integrated code and method framework, based on the critical value of Radical Simplicity.
read moreGuest blog: Stepping Stones into the Future through Leadership Agility at Ericsson
Within Ericsson we have gained lots of experience from Agile Way of working!
But what about our leadership? Have we become increasingly adoptable at responding to the degree of change and complexity that pervades today’s workplace? A guest post by my dear friend Anna Sandström.
Develop Developers with Secondment Exchanges
Larger software delivery organisations should develop their people by offering secondment exchanges with non-competing organisations.
read moreScrum of Scrums: Reverse the Polarity
Don’t escalate impediments. Instead send managers to join daily standup meetings to unblock impediments, develop servant leaders and evolve a Lean culture.
read moreScrum team of leaders
When I first became managers' manager I had a dream of a Scrum team of leaders. The basic reasons for this was the same as for any Scrum team. Especially to make the team less vulnerable by giving all the same information at the same point in time (morning meetings)...
read moreLimiting Knowledge In Progress For Better Learning
Knowledge is Inventory in the Learning Process, and behaves like a queue of committed options. Constrain KIP for faster learning. This post is extending a metaphor that I haven't completely thought through, but as a way of exploring my own understanding. Metaphors are...
read moreNarrative Tropes and Transformation
Best Practises, Frameworks and Methods are the narrative tropes of transformation. Weave your telling into your culture.
read moreFunding the Development Factory: The Parable of the Airport
The dynamics of Software Development Centres closely resemble complex queuing systems such as traffic or airports. Using our everyday experience to prompt questions on the economics of why these systems are set up the way they are can give us insight into how best to...
read more