There is another page with a complete archive of all months and categories available for you. And there is also a separate page with all lists published on this blog.

However, if you’re only interested in the most popular articles, then check out the blog posts listed here. These are the very best I ever published on this blog…

2012

13-12-2012: Where’s the End?

10-12-2012: I Tried Education Days, Didn’t Work

20-11-2012: In Which Domain Should We Have Common Sense?

12-11-2012: It’s Not About Women, It’s About Networks

07-11-2012: The 6 Rules for Rewards

29-10-2012: I Don’t Care About “Agile”

25-10-2012: Many Simple Models Over One Complicated Model

04-10-2012: Nonviolent Communication (Stop It!)

26-09-2012: Why Not Delight the Supplier?

03-09-2012: The Trojan Form of Change

28-08-2012: Is Your Work an Expression of Your Life?

27-08-2012: A Task Board That Really Sucks

24-07-2012: Improved MLA Style Guide: Delighting the Reader

04-07-2012: Management Dysfunction: Measuring Happiness

28-06-2012: Managers Should Not Be Coaching Developers

20-06-2012: Egocentric Leadership

07-06-2012: Management 2.0 Is the Right Thing Done Wrong

24-05-2012: A Sense of Ownership

07-05-2012: Eating Elephants

26-04-2012: Celebrate Learning, Not Success or Failure

12-04-2012: The Bishops of Oih versus the Knights of Nih

03-04-2012: Slack Is for Optional Stuff, Not for Important Stuff

29-03-2012: We’re Not So Different, You And I

21-03-2012: What If We Started Organizing *Real* Conferences?

12-03-2012: Delegation Does Not Mean Negation

26-02-2012: Don’t Be Intimidated

13-02-2012: The Cynefin Agile Lean Mixup

09-02-2012: Unprofessional Behavior

24-01-2012: You’re Not a Complexity Thinker When…

2011

21-12-2011: The T-Shirt Test

19-12-2011: Management Models, Values & Principles?

12-12-2011: How Do I Deal With My $%*! Organization?

06-12-2011: Your Work Is Awesome, Your Work Is Crap

16-11-2011: The Mojito Method

13-11-2011: The Happiness Door, Another Great Feedback Method

01-11-2011: Networked Kanban

10-10-2011: Change the Environment, Not the People

06-10-2011: Work the Network

28-09-2011: Meddlers (Free Exercise)

26-09-2011: Moving Motivators (Free Exercise)

14-09-2011: How to Change the World (After 15 Years of Failure)

08-09-2011: 21 Concrete Practices for Agile Managers

22-08-2011: Delight Your Stakeholders

27-06-2011: The Purpose of a Business is NOT Customer Value

14-06-2011: Change Management 3.0

02-06-2011: American Learning Experience

30-05-2011: Triple-Loop Learning

18-04-2011: The Feedback Door

05-04-2011: It Takes Complexity to Handle Complexity

07-03-2011: The “Optimal” Fallacy

18-02-2011: Agile Doesn’t Make Sense, It Makes a Difference

02-02-2011: Black Swans, Broken Windows, and Magicians

20-01-2011: Reinventing Retrospectives

03-01-2011: Measure Yourself with Measures

2010

20-12-2010: How to Deal with Unknown Unknowns

02-12-2010: Story of a (Fictional) Doomed Software Business

22-11-2010: No True Agile, No True Lean, No True Latte

04-11-2010: The Idea Farmer

25-10-2010: The Customer Value Problem: Ditch the Value Stream!

27-09-2010: Continuous Reflection *Before* Time Management

07-09-2010: Simplicity: A New Model

31-08-2010: This Software Method Doesn’t Work Here

28-07-2010: Diversity? You Mean Connectivity!

26-07-2010: Every Team Must Be a Value Unit

19-07-2010: How to Make a Presentation

16-07-2010: It’s About Being Competent, Not About Being ___

12-07-2010: Cross-Functional Teams Don’t Come Free

18-06-2010: 360 Degrees Dinner

14-06-2010: T-Shaped People

31-05-2010: Hyper-Productivity, or Autocatalysis

11-05-2010: The 9 Capabilities of Communicators

26-04-2010: It’s Only Communication When There’s Verification

25-03-2010: 10 Questions to Ask Your New Manager

23-03-2010: 7 Approaches to Competence Development

09-03-2010: Some Day Kanban Will Fail 75% of the Time

22-02-2010: The Success of the Agile Memeplex

11-02-2010: Discipline * Skill = Craftsmanship

08-02-2010: In Defense of Scrum (Please Stop Pissing on It)

19-01-2010: Protect People

05-01-2010: Management 3.0: The Era of Complexity

2009

28-12-2009: Yes, Good Managers Are Manipulators

14-12-2009: Management: A Deceptive Metaphor

23-11-2009: If You Want Something Done, Practice Your Patience

12-11-2009: Choosing Authority Levels for Team Members

09-11-2009: Reduce Your Fear, Increase Your Status

05-10-2009: The Danger of Lean: Ignoring Social Complexity

01-10-2009: The Do-It-Yourself Team Values Kit

14-09-2009: The Three Phases of Creativity

03-09-2009: ScrumButs Are the Best Part of Scrum

20-08-2009: Are We Abusing Science?

24-07-2009: Commit to Sprint Planning or Definition of Done, Not Both

01-07-2009: Agile Is NOT a Risk Management Strategy

19-06-2009: One Curse a Day Keeps the Burnout Away

16-06-2009: People Don’t Listen

20-05-2009: Self-Organization = Anarchy

11-05-2009: The Big Agile Practices Survey Report

08-05-2009: You Are a Gardener (Oh, and Me Too)

29-04-2009: Empowered, Whether You Like It or Not

08-04-2009: The Optimal Team Size is Five

18-03-2009: Your Software Project Has No Goal

02-03-2009: The Complex Manifesto for Software Development

17-02-2009: Checklist for an Agile Game

05-02-2009: The Decline and Fall of Agilists

03-02-2009: Sugar, Spice and Vitamins

26-01-2009: How to Handle Multiple Customers

13-01-2009: 100 Interview Questions for Software Developers

12-01-2009: Team Members, Be Predictable!

2008

16-12-2008: Real Agile Teams Can Flock

09-12-2008: Embrace Diversity, Erase Uniformity

07-12-2008: No, I Will NOT Call Your Ex-Boss

23-11-2008: The 12 Best Questions for Team Members

06-11-2008: That’s Why We Need Managers! (But Only a Few)

12-10-2008: How to Do Many Projects with Few People (4 parts)

07-10-2008: To Motivate or Not to Demotivate

27-08-2008: People over Process: a Universal Law

24-08-2008: Creativity as the Root of Software Development

18-07-2008: List of Software Development Methodologies

06-07-2008: Oh My God, They Killed the Bug (You Bastards!)

30-06-2008: 10 Principles of Agile Project Time Management

25-05-2008: How to Select a Fine Technical Manager

25-04-2008: The Perfect Job Interview Question

23-04-2008: Thank You, Stupid Americans

16-04-2008: A Product Is Successful Until It Fails

11-04-2008: Why Developers Are Never Really Happy

18-03-2008: The Agile Blind Spot

13-03-2008: Why I Would Never Hire Steve Yegge

09-03-2008: Make It Simple vs. Do It Simple

01-03-2008: Iterative and Incremental Development: New Definitions

23-02-2008: Software Development Ethics (Not French!)

14-02-2008: Competence Development: The Cone of Incompetence