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Systems & People

Businesses need to apply Systems Thinking.
People have to exercise a Growth Mindset.

Becoming faster while achieving better results. This idea made the Agile movement so strong. Yet, understanding Agile bears some remarkable risks.

Organizations have the tendency to transpose the reason into methods.

To keep up with the reason, we have to free up Agile from wrong interpretations. Cure comes from growing awareness and understanding – about the systems we are working in and the people we are working for.

freeagile brings articles and resources to you – a source to get Agile right. It reaches beyond methods and deep into how and why we have to consider the way we work.

Enjoy browsing the content. Find stuff that is highly relevant for you. Follow up on your own findings. And if you like, spot your ideas and reflections on me. This place is open for discussion!

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  • Social Behavior

    A typical Communication Issue

    February 20, 2018 / No Comments
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    The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place

    Bernard Shaw

    Knowing is not telling. Major communication issue in our day to day interactions is the things "we" already know. Either it makes us bad listeners or it we simply assume, we have shared our knowledge with others already. Especially the assumption, that we have told others about what we have on our mind, is a…

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  • Way of Working

    Cynefin Lego Game

    February 10, 2018 / No Comments
    Cynefin Lego Game
    Cynefin Lego Game

    The Cynefin framework is used to help decision makers to understand the domain, they are operating in. It offers four contexts: simple, complicated, complex, chaotic, and disorder. They offer a "sense of place" from which to analyze behavior and decide how to act in similar situations. In general it is important to know what type…

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  • [Article],  Organization Design

    Cross-Functional People

    January 31, 2018 / No Comments
    Cross-Functional Teams ask for Cross-Functional People

    Subject matter experts are silos - subject matter expertise needs to be shared. If experts are leaving a project, the subject stays. By then, if you are not able to close such a gap from within your organization, expertise needs to be bought from the outside. There is only one profound way to come around…

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  • Way of Working

    Where is the truth about agile?

    December 31, 2017 / No Comments
    Where is the truth about agile? - Free Agile! Community

    Looking for a place, where you can find out more about what agile really means to us and how it helps to shape our future? Here you go - freeagile.org.

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  • Organization Design

    The four big Hs of an organization

    December 28, 2017 / No Comments
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    Every employee must be honest
    Every leader must be humble
    Every attitude must be human
    And the organization will be healthy

    Harald Dietrich

    Many people are talking about agile today. Decreasing costs, increasing speed and quality, and the urge to empower employees to contribute their full work force to the growth and success of an organization. Even though there is a great side effect of agile.

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  • Way of Working

    A Discussion on SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, Spotify, and more

    December 28, 2017 / 1 Comment
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    SAFe vs LeSS vs Nexus Vs Spotify method, etc

    Lot's of discussions are going on in the internet on possibilities to scale agile. There are various frameworks, which are gaining more and more popularity. This post points to one of the discussions at Agile Uprising on the topic.

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  • Social Behavior

    Courage doesn’t always roar

    December 26, 2017 / 2 Comments
    Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying "I'll try it tomorrow again"

    Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying: “I will try again tomorrow”

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  • Way of Working

    Stopping the Enterprise Death Spiral with Mob Programming

    December 23, 2017 / No Comments

    “Let’s say you are at a company with 10 people; price’s law states that approximately 3 people will be responsible for half of the productivity of value. Scale that out to 100 and now it’s 10 people who are responsible for half the productivity of value. Now scale that to 10,000 and you have 100…

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  • [Article],  Way of Working

    Daily Routine – The Agile Mastery Challenge

    December 14, 2017 / No Comments
    Daily Routine - a Scrum Masters' Challenge

    What makes up a great scrum master? Test yourself and take a close look how you or your team is perceiving the daily routine.

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  • Way of Working

    Experiment Together. Improve Together. Win Together

    November 29, 2017 / No Comments

    “An organization that establishes safety as a prerequisite and experiments together, will improve together, and win together.”

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  • Leadership Skills

    6 Ways to Motivate Individuals to Become a Winning Team

    November 20, 2017 / No Comments

    “Intrinsic motivation is essential for high-performing teams. Those leaders who understand the difference between internal and external motivators and know how to harness them will have the edge on their competition, on the field or in the marketplace.” “Praise the effort, not the outcome.”

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  • Social Behavior

    You’re responsible for your rose

    November 19, 2017 / No Comments

    The fox in "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry points at the responsibility we take for each other

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  • [Article],  Organization Design

    Dare the impossible: Cross-functional teams with end to end ownership

    October 22, 2017 / No Comments
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    A write up of some exciting and astonishing discussions experienced in the Meetup "Dare the impossible: Cross-functional teams with end to end ownership" of the Agile Munich group.

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  • Way of Working

    Do you know what Scrum Masters do or don’t?

    October 19, 2017 / No Comments
    Scrum Masters do and don't

    (Missunderstood) Stances of a Scrum Master

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  • Organization Design

    Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter

    October 1, 2017 / No Comments
    Diverse Teams

    In recent years a body of research has revealed another, more nuanced benefit of workplace diversity: nonhomogenous teams are simply smarter. Working with people who are different from you may challenge your brain to overcome its stale ways of thinking and sharpen its performance. Let’s dig into why diverse teams are smarter. [button url=”https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter”  target=”_blank” size=”small”…

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