I thought about this post for Inception facilitators but I soon realised that it also works for...
Facilitation and diving: depth, duration and decompression time
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Strategy and Planning
3 Differences Between Design Sprint and Lean Inception You Need To Know
Design Sprint and Lean Inception are two collaborative workshops that are often (incorrectly) used...
How to map story points to function points?
On the past year, I worked on a bank and influenced the contract change to accept function points and agile delivery. Instead of trying to match FP directly to story points, we used a triangulation via MVPs. All focus goes into the MVP and what goes into the MVP....
Meeting Burn-down agenda
The meeting burn-down agenda is a visual mechanism to help tracking a meetign progress. The agenda presents the meeting topics as bullet points. The meeting timeline (from the beginning to the end) is displayed as an arrow next to the meeting bullet points. A pink...
developers are afraid
If you estimate, dates are written in stone. If you commit, the build is broken. If you innovate, the plan is not being followed. If you pair, a resource is being wasted. If you speak up, the alignment is at risk. If you refactor, new functionality is delayed. Don't...
Navigating the organizational structure
I am not sure we have been mapping the organisation structure correctly. By "we" I mean these amazing lean and agile people, going into many organisations, discovering wonders and showing them how to do organisational transformation. I have to be humble, or it is...
product thinking
"Here's what our product can do" and "Here's what you can do with our product" sound similar, but they are completely different approaches. — Jason Fried (@jasonfried) November 13, 2013 I really like the way Jason Fried stated the sentence. Prior to getting into...
Scaling, Deepening and Broadening Agile
Last week I was on the scaling agile workshop at the amazing XPConf 2015 at Helsinki. Jutta Eckstein, the workshop presenter, the great Charlie Poole along with all workshop participants had a quick and great conversation about the term: scaling agile. Are we talking...