Culture Change in the Agile Transition: A Journey to Organisational Agility
In today's rapidly evolving business world, agility has become the key to success. Organisations around the world are adopting agile methods to adapt to changing market conditions, improve collaboration and deliver value to customers faster. But beware: the shift...
Fractal Organisations
When we talk about scaling, we mean changing size. When we talk about scaling organisations, we are mostly talking about the growth, i.e. the enlargement, of organisations (although this is by no means self-evident). If an organisation gets more orders than it can...
What is a Flight Levels Systems Architecture?
What the hell is a Flight Levels Systems Architecture? Anyone who deals with flight levels has either heard the question before or asked it for themselves. In fact, the question is a simple one to answer - it's just not that easy. The Flight Levels System...
How to recognise the right Agile Coach?
I always get asked this question - I am looking for an Agile Coach, but how do I know that I actually have the right one? There is a short and a slightly longer answer to this question. The short answer is: you don't know and you have to try it out. Of course, the...
Risk management at risk
Classical business administration teaches us to view the world in causal relationships. Every event triggers a subsequent event. Thus, there are clear triggering events for everything. A is followed by B. Of course, A can also trigger B and C and E in turn can be...
The Productivity Trap
In business administration, but also in our perception, productivity always has something to do with making use of the time available. We must and want to use our time productively - and that is right and good. We should only ask ourselves whether the economy of...
If everything is equally important, then leadership has failed
How is it that projects, in spite of excellent planning, are delayed, quite delayed or even never finished? I'm not talking about the large-scale government projects that involve a lot of politics and tendering rules. I am talking about the projects that are...
How do I explain Flight Levels – to my grandma?
That was a funny question today: how would you explain Flight Levels to your grandma? It's actually quite simple: in a way that she understands. I love good food, and when it's good, it can be (too) much. When grandma plans, prepares and cooks the Sunday menu, she...
SteamPunk Forecasting
Story points, business points, T-shirt sizes - either way, we try to frame our work in comparable terms. In the classical world, the effort was estimated, in the agile world it is the complexity of a task. How many points I can deliver in an iteration is what I...
SteamPunk Schooling
Completely unexpectedly and without any warning, it seems, the state of Hessia has decided on new Corona restrictions. The local grammar school has been forced to rebalance its teaching - half of the pupils are allowed to go to school one week, while the other half...