Monthly Archives: September 2015
The Management Scrum Team
This is an important idea that more and more people are talking about. One aspect: Managers can learn best what Scrum is and what agile is by being on a ‘real’ Scrum team. A more important aspect: Managers can be more effective on a multi-functional Scrum team. (Often.) *** STOP! Why am I writing this […]
Changing the culture through invitation and engagement
Some of you know my phrase: “People are remarkably good at doing what they want to do.” It is a down to earth way of saying: I think self-organization is the right thing. Or, I believe in freedom. Believing in freedom does not mean Congress will always vote the way you want. Or even vote […]
How to make the Whole Organization Agile
Steve Denning has written a short article summarizing his thoughts on this subject. Very interesting. How To Make The Whole Organization Agile In the article you will see links to his blog posts and a mention of his book: The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management. Enjoy!
Teams that Finish Early Accelerate Faster
Jeff Sutherland has recommended this recent article: “Teams that Finish Early Accelerate Faster.” Here it is: teamsthatfinishearlyacceleratefaster What’s the deal? Well, many of us are seeing ‘scrum’ that is not … not achieving the results we would like to see. I say it this way: we want everyone to achieve significantly better results. Jeff Sutherland talks […]