Inspire Management! at Scrum Australia 2013
Scrum Australia 2013 in Sydney was my first Agile conference in Australia. And what a good event it was! Here are a few things I liked:
Scrum Australia 2013 in Sydney was my first Agile conference in Australia. And what a good event it was! Here are a few things I liked:
My Agile Onion (in a bottling jar) Whenever I give an overview of Agile, e.g., in classes or to clients, I use an onion to describe it. My Agile Onion consists of a core, has two layers, and it rests … Continue reading
It’s all about inspiration! A few decades ago, writer and poet Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to … Continue reading
Agile Teams within Organisations – An Organisation’s View My colleagues and I, we work as Agile coaches. Every now and then new clients invite us to take a look at their Agile teams. These clients typically introduced Agile software development … Continue reading
Offer choices! Talking about the pull principle means to talk about not having authorities and hierarchies, but talking about responsibility and commitment. The pull principle means to have the freedom and autonomy to be responsible and committed. And vice versa … Continue reading
We trust in the responsibilityand the commitment of our people. At it-agile, the company I work for and with, we use pull systems. Of course, whenever it comes to software development or project related activities (like organizing a conferece or … Continue reading
House building can be pushed or pulled When I write about people pulling work, it’s only half the picture without the customer. He’s the reason people are doing the work in the first place. The customer benefits very much from … Continue reading
No need for him: In a pull system,decisions are made by the responsibilityand commitment of experts doing the work. The pull principle changed the way we work. In the manufacturing process, pull prevents huge inventories and decreases costs, among other … Continue reading
Piggly Wiggly store 1916, the first supermarket in the world When Clarence Saunders built the very first supermarket, he did not know that he invented a principle that changed the world. It was 1916, when he was annoyed of the … Continue reading
At the OOP Conference 2012 in Munich I presented another version of my session “How Agile and Lean Changed My Organization” (in German, called “Wie Agil und Lean meine Organisation veränderte“). This was actually the outcome of the 2nd iteration … Continue reading