For non-native speakers, there’s phrase in English (and many other languages) “the fish rots from the head down”. Roughly it means that when an organisation or company starts to fail in some way, the leadership is the root cause. Hence[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In my experience, co-location is a must for real agile development. You can do something approximating agile with distributed teams – but an approximation is all it’ll ever be.
So artistically, this is virtually a copy and paste. But I couldn’t get this point into the last cartoon 😉
Agile isn’t for everyone. And that’s just fine. What’s not fine is forcing people into agile teams when they don’t want to be there – cause that’s the current organisational structure, we’re all going to be agile, etc. You can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have to admit, that until recently I had a pretty low opinion of the Spotify Model. This probably had a lot less to do with the Spotify Model, and more to do with the people who were telling me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As someone once wrote, twice the value in half the time – or twice the effectiveness – would have been a more agile formulation. Twice the work in half in the time sounds like pure Taylorism! So a friend and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This happens quite often on a Friday night. It’s a cheap form of therapy 😉 Unfortunately though, it’s a required form of therapy. As anyone who has read the strips will have noticed, frustration at the lack of management engagement[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
