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Q&A on the Book Agendashift Part I

In the book Agendashift, Mike Burrows describes an inclusive, non-prescriptive, values-based, and outcome-centric approach to continuous transformation. He explores several lean and agile techniques that can be used in workshops and coaching to do lasting change.

Ben Linders
on May 16, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on Doing It - Management 3.0 Experiences

In the book Doing It - Management 3.0 Experiences, Ralph van Roosmalen shares his experiences from using Management 3.0 as a manager and as a coach. He explores how he experimented with ideas and practices like moving motivators and kudo cards from Jurgen Appelo’s book Managing for Happiness to find out what drives people, help them to become happier at work, and empower self-organizing teams.

Ben Linders
on May 08, 2017
Culture & Methods

The Triangle of Self Organization

Self-organization is a modern management tool that replaces command & control as a method of creating teams and guiding them to deliver desired outcomes. The Triangle of Self Organization identifies three essential components needed to guide this process – goal, rules & tension - and shows how to choose them consciously to successfully use self-organization as a management tool.

Andy Brandt
on Mar 06, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Soul-Centered Leadership

The book Soul-Centered Leadership by Michael Anderson provides ideas and exercises for developing skills to lead people while being in touch with your soul. It explores a leadership approach based on emotional intelligence, psychology, and spirituality.

Ben Linders
on Jan 21, 2017
Culture & Methods

Communities of Practice: The Missing Piece of Your Agile Organisation

Communities of practice bring together people who share areas of interest or concerns. They have specific applications in agile organisations: scaling agile development and allowing individuals to connect with others who share similar concerns. Communities of practice bring people together to regain the benefits of regular contact while keeping the value of multidisciplinary agile teams.

Emily Webber
on Sep 14, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Jurgen Appelo on Managing for Happiness

The book Managing for Happiness by Jurgen Appelo provides practices, games and tools to manage organizations and make work fun. It contains tips and suggestions for applying the practices to achieve organizational greatness and maximize learning in organizations.

Ben Linders
on Jul 20, 2016
Culture & Methods

Don't Break Your Silos - Push Out the Silo Mentality

Organizational silos are a serious hurdle for many companies out there. They may cause a wide variety of problems if not dealt with accordingly. Silos may not need to be broken if you manage to push out the mentality that comes with them by creating ventilators. The first step towards dealing with the silos is to learn more about them and familiarize yourself with the best practices against them.

Alexander Novkov
on Jul 13, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Dave Snowden on Leadership and Using Cynefin for Capturing Requirements

Dave Snowden gave a talk titled "Context is Everything" at the Scaling Agile for the Enterprise 2016 congress in Brussels, Belgium. InfoQ interviewed him about applying leadership models, the Cynefin model and how it can be used for capturing requirements, scaling agile, and sustainable change.

Ben Linders
on Apr 23, 2016
Culture & Methods

Characteristics of a Great Scrum Team

This article explores 'What makes a great Scrum team?' by offering detailed descriptions of the characteristics and skills needed in the Scrum roles of Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team.

Barry Overeem
on Apr 15, 2016
Culture & Methods

Test Management Revisited

The concept of test management sits awkwardly in agile, mostly because it’s a construct derived from the time when testing was a post-development phase, performed by independent testing teams. Agile, with its focus on cross functional teams, has sounded the death knell for many test managers. While test management is largely irrelevant in agile, there is still a desperate need for test leadership.

Anne-Marie Charrett
on Apr 03, 2016
Culture & Methods

Voys Learns to Play the Holacracy Game

Holacracy removes power from a management hierarchy and distributes it across teams that have a clear set of roles, responsibilities, and expectations. This new organizational system with no managers or titles is often misunderstood. Learn about holacracy from the Dutch telecom company Voys who implemented this new way of running organizations.

Yanto Hesseling
on Mar 27, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A on Creating Great Teams

The book “Creating Great Teams - How Self-Selection Lets People Excel” by Sandy Mamoli and David Mole explores the concepts of teams that pick themselves and provides step-by-step instructions on how you can use self-selection to establish teams.

Ben Linders
on Feb 20, 2016