Facets of Trust – from Platitudes to Motivation
Trust is the basis for friendliness and friendship, but also a fundament for success - the way you trust is telling a lot about you and why you succeed or fail. Learn more!
Trust is like a paper
Trust is like a paper – once it is crumbled it can’t be perfect again.
Communication leads to community
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Agile Organizational Transformation – Mind the People
When talking about agile and agility, we should not forget that we are talking a lot about culture, values, and identity. Irrespective if we start an agile transition from top to bottom or from bottom to top, we need to understand that we have to take a lot of people with us. For many it is a big adventure, as their system, which helped them to achieve stability and reliance is questioned to some degree. We ask them to trust people, with whom they probably never have worked with and where they are lacking a fundamental understanding of their needs and objectives. Learning by Doing I am trying to foster…
Deviations in motivators for an agile transition
When I was starting with agile teams many years ago, my main motivation has been to create more robust delivery processes. When I was looking at the findings, I was realizing, that I was not able to drive change by myself, so my motivation changed to empower the people in the teams to take actions on themselves. Now I realize, that my motivation has to be to foster a joint understanding of values and create room for the teams to take actions. Agile tools belong to the teams and not to me.
