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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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  • Organization Design

    What is Agile? – from Structure to Mindset

    October 1, 2017 / No Comments
    What is Agile?

    Tools and processes stand in the middle of agile history. But over time it turned out that there is much more about agile. Today agile is to be seen as instrument for a learning organisation, which requires practices, principles, values, and in the end the right mindset of everyone working in an agile organization. from…

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  • Way of Working

    Stacey Matrix – adapted to software development

    October 1, 2017 / 1 Comment
    Stacey Matrix - adapted to software development

    “The Stacey Matrix was developed to help managers determine the complexity of their environment and adapt their style of decision-making. For software development, the Matrix is often plotted along different axes; ‘Requirements’ and ‘Implementation’ (or ‘Technology’). The former is determined by the obviousness to which we know what we need to build (like the product)…

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  • Social Behavior

    Trust is like a paper

    October 1, 2017 / No Comments

    Trust is like a paper – once it is crumbled it can’t be perfect again.

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  • Way of Working

    Prioritizing product features using the Kano model

    October 1, 2017 / 1 Comment

    One of the challenges product teams encounter, is how to decide which features should be included in their products. Identifying the user needs, helps teams to focus on what a product should deliver to address a certain type of user. In time, teams develop many ideas on how to address these needs. The Kano model…

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  • Way of Working

    The #NoEstimates debate: An unbiased look at the origins, arguments, and thought leaders behind the movement

    September 19, 2017 / 1 Comment

    There are many points on which Zuill (who first blogged about completing a project sans estimates in 2012) and Kretzman (a strong critic of the #NoEstimates movement and a supporter of the continued use of estimates when effective) actually agree, giving both sides of the debate common ground on which to build a continually better…

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  • Social Behavior

    Against negative “otherizing” – TEDTalk by Elizabeth Lesser

    September 19, 2017 / No Comments

    “Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” ~Rumi A cite from the Persian poet Rumi are the closing words for an amazing TEDtalk by Elizabeth Lesser. She just had been talking ten minutes about one of the most fundamental challenges in our world – the problem of…

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  • Way of Working

    There is no certification for Agile

    September 16, 2017 / No Comments

    There is no certification for #agile, like there is no certification for #democracy. — Harald Dietrich (@haralddietrich) September 16, 2017

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  • Social Behavior

    The power of vulnarability – TED Talk by Brené Brown

    September 9, 2017 / No Comments

    If we numb vulnerability then we numb joy then we numb gratitude then we numb happiness #showcourage From her studies on human connection, Brené Brown shared some funny but enigmatic insights in a TED talk. A phenomal number of viewws shows the popularity of this talk. Worth sharing!

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  • [Article],  Personal Growth

    About Becoming Better

    September 1, 2017 / No Comments
    About Becoming Better

    You don’t know when you will fail until you got there. Often it is quite easy to understand, when we have become better. We feel that we are successful in doing something. Problems are solved or procedures make sense to us. But, looking at the results does not really describe how we got there. Would…

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  • Organization Design

    Ingredients for the Vital Organisation

    August 31, 2017 / 1 Comment
    The Vital Organization

    A vital organization has its own #IDENTITY for growing an understanding of the purpose. A vital organization has objectives driven from a shared #VISION and the collective #MOTIVATION to get there A vital organization considers the possibilities from the #DEMAND, work in #TEAMS, and #BESTPRACTICES A vital organization is about the people and their #CONTRIBUTION,…

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  • [Article],  Way of Working

    A Dictionary of Agile Language (updated)

    August 30, 2017 / No Comments
    A Dictionary of Agile Language

    The importance of language is inevitable. Finding the right wording, which is expressing exactly what we want to say from a context point of view, but also from a emotional point of view. The agile development space is an area of application, where this comes true notably. We just need to recall, that we use…

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  • Organization Design

    Stupidity or Information Overload

    August 26, 2017 / No Comments

    The amount of information is growing tremendously day by day. Any kind of knowledge is encapsulated in articles, blog posts, status updates, or tweets. No one can believe that mankind is getting that smart that wisdom is being derived from that information overload – even not in the future. So what are the factors we…

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  • [Article],  Way of Working

    A Practical Journey to Communities of Practice

    August 25, 2017 / No Comments
    Communities of Practice

    A while ago I have been asking the community at Agile Uprising for some hints on how to setup communities of practice. I felt like I would need some support. I had a rough idea what I would want to achieve by establishing communities, but I was lacking the idea how to get there. The…

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  • Personal Growth

    Knowledge without Wisdom

    August 21, 2017 / No Comments

    For many topics, we are facing an overexposure of information today. Too much information stresses us. It leads to wrong decisions. When do we ask ourselves if we need all of this information? What do we gain? Information fasting can help us to take a step back and observe what (missing) information is doing to…

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  • Leadership Skills

    How to Involve Your Team in Creating Vision and Strategy

    August 20, 2017 / No Comments

    One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is thinking they are supposed to have all the answers, especially when it comes to vision. There is a natural desire to look like you are smart and know what you’re doing. But sometimes the smartest thing you can do is to involve your team in creating vision…

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