Agile Lean Europe: Taking Action
In my previous post I evaluated the discussion about a European network for Agile and Lean thinkers (and doers). My conclusion is that ma...
Agile Lean Europe: Energize the Network!
Last week Johanna Rothman and I were talking about Agile in Europe, while she made a brave attempt at out-eating me at my own favorite Mo...
Agile Doesn’t Make Sense, It Makes a Difference
Would Madonna have been successful if she had styled herself M.L. Ciccone? I don’t think so. Names are important. Good names can be mot...
Podcast and Articles
What is the similarity between Jeff Sutherland, Mary Poppendieck, Bob Martin, David Anderson, and me? Nothing! Nothing at all. Except… ...
New Group – Agile Lean Europe (ALE)
Why are Agile and Lean practitioners in the US better organized than in Europe? It is great that we have an Agile Alliance, a Scrum Allia...
The “Normal” Fallacy
Sometimes my ideas and behaviors don’t fall within the parameter range of what some people consider “normal”. Yet I consider them q...
What Is Agile Management?
I had to (re)organize some materials this week about my views on Agile Management, because some companies are inviting me to do talks abo...
Book Launch & Book Winners
The Management 3.0 book launch last Friday was a big success. There were more than 100 people attending the event at the Selexyz Donner b...
7 Questions for Philippe Kruchten
Philippe Kruchten is a Canadian software engineer, Professor of Software Engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, ...
Black Swans, Broken Windows, and Magicians
Magicians can make many things disappear. But not broken windows or black swans. When I was young I was fascinated by magicians. With a b...
Many Preconceptions about Scrum (Dutch article)
I helped write a Dutch article about the common misunderstandings of Scrum. It is published in Automatisering Gids, the leading Dutch new...
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