My Meetup Group: Oh. Oh. Oh. It’s Magic – Changing Organizations
Not only telling, but real involvement is the objective of my personal Meetup group in Munich. Changing organizations can be seen from a business perspective, but also from a personal point of view. Involvement and development come hand-in-hand and ask for experimentation and surprising changes of perspective. Often it looks like magic: Oh. Oh. Oh. It’s Magic – Changing Organizations Working for the best company in the world? Not yet? Then it’s about time to start changing! The agile movement has taught us one thing: there is no catch all solution, no toolset for implementing the best organization. It is all about company culture and mindset. It is about us.…
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Planning a Hackathon? Read what Foursquare, Paypal, Banco Sabadell and others do
More and more companies plan to make use of hackathon. They want to bring innovation and hidden talents to their organization. Too compelling are the various success stories, which are telling about fabulous results. They are delivered by people, who invest a small amount of their time into an inspiring challenge. The return on invest is a bet, but it seems to pay off – at least for those who are telling these stories. Irrespective of doing an internal hackathon with own employee or a public hackathon, it requires accurate planning. Context, facilities, objectives, incentives, and communication needs to create a fundament for a successful event. Quite often the planning…
Cynefin Lego Game
“A game to let you experience four of the five domains of Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework” The Cynefin framework is used to help decision makers to understand the domain, they are operating in. It offers for 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 (see also the close relation with the Stacey Matrix mentioned in the post Stacey Matrix – adapted to software development). In general it is important to know what type of system you are dealing with. Playing the Cynefin Lego Game shows you how to decode what is happening…
A Discussion on SAFe / LeSS / Nexus / Spotify at al.
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. The link above points to one of the discussions at Agile Uprising on the topic. It is worthwhile reading, as subject matters experts, including matured agile coaches, scrum musters and developers jump onto the topic and make it a great overview over pros and cons of each of the approaches. You will find also several further links to more resources giving more details. Check it out!
Stopping the Enterprise Death Spiral with Mob Programming
“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 people responsible for half the productivity of value.” A finding that goes hand-in-hand with many examples of Pareto Distribution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution). So what to do about it? Give power to small teams! Develop cross functionality, build in quality from the beginning, and increase competency and team performance. Mob programming is an agile practice, which can help…
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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” icon=”external-link”]Open Article[/button]
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The #NoEstimates debate: An unbiased look at the origins, arguments, and thought leaders behind the movement
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 approach to the question that’s being begged: to estimate or not to estimate? Here’s what Malcolm Isaacs found in his search for the truth beyond the hashtag. [button url=”https://techbeacon.com/noestimates-debate-unbiased-look-origins-arguments-thought-leaders-behind-movement” target=”_blank” size=”small” icon=”external-link”]Open Article[/button]
How to Involve Your Team in Creating Vision and Strategy
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 and strategy and invite them to think together about the future. You don’t need to have it all figured out before you talk about it. In fact, it’s better if you don’t. This amazing article from Seapoint Center gives eight guidelines to involve your team in creating vision and strategy. [button url=”https://seapointcenter.com/involve-your-team-in-creating-vision/” target=”_blank” size=”small” icon=”external-link”]Open…
Out of sight, out of mind? 5 Virtual Team Building Activities
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Visualizing Product Development Work
“Whenever you’re thinking high level, someone will bring you down to earth and ask you to get into the weeds. Whenever you’re in the weeds, someone will complain that you’re not being high level enough. It’s the burden we bear. Just when you think you’ve figured things out, you’ll encounter a person who needs to see your roadmap, or backlog, or “sprint backlog”, or “project”, or “plan” in a whole new way. So…changing delivery based on context is important. You could argue that it is the biggest challenge facing PMs. It is a design problem!” “11 Ways I Visualize Product Development Work” @johncutlefish
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