Dance with the System
An organization is a complex adaptive system. It will adapt to what you do, so you must adapt continuously to how the system responds. Th...
My Session Proposal for ALE 2011
The ALE 2011 unconference in Berlin, on 7-9 September, is the best proof that a self-organizing network of people can create something un...
Reward for Book Reviewers
UPDATE June 21: The first winner is Yves Hanoulle! Thank you Yves for writing a review of my book on Amazon.com.UPDATE June 27: The secon...
Change Management 3.0
No matter how big the CEO’s desk is, an organization is not a hierarchy. It is a social network. People interact with each other across...
How to Change Other People
The hardest part of becoming Agile is changing the behavior of other people. (At least, that’s what people keep telling me.) Because, e...
American Learning Experience
I write this on the plane back home. What should have been my longest business trip ever (3 weeks) turned out to be my shortest (3 hours)...
Triple-Loop Learning
So, you want to build a product? The First Loop The first thing you should do is to gather requirements. What is it that users want your ...
Blog Post #500
This is my 500th blog post. I didn’t expect to make it this far when I wrote the first blog post more than 3 years ago. There can be on...
The Illusion of Control
Control is an illusion. Do you think you’re in control of yourself? Hah! Think again. Your eyes capture only a tiny percentage of what ...
My Pre-Summer Schedule
I'm facing a challenging schedule over the next six weeks or so. I'll be training and presenting in 10 locations, and then I'...
Open Letter to Agile Alliance, Scrum Alliance, and LSSC
Hi, Since three months I have been working with others to create a network of Agile and Lean thinkers and practitioners across Europe (AL...
ALEnetwork @ XP2011
On 10 May 2011, at the XP2011 conference in Madrid, 32 people from different European countries joined to create a common vision for the ...
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