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Agile & Lean (23)

How to Paint the World

I’m painting our house and I’m doing it the agile way. I might call it Agile Painting, or Painting 3.0.

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ALE 2014

Are You Going to ALE 2014?

Did you know ALE is the only event where I pay so that I can attend?
I hope to see you in August in Kraków.

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Agile Is Not Dead

Agile Is Not Dead (But Some Organizations Might Be Soon)

The concept of agility is fine. Agile is not dead. But organizations misapplying good agile practices might be very soon.

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Working Software from Spotify over Comprehensive Documentation about Spotify

I have the habit of going for a walk every day, for about an hour, developing new ideas while listening to tacky music. To accompany me o...

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I Don’t Care About “Agile”

All ideas are great, until they are confronted with reality. The concept of Management By Objectives by Peter F. Drucker was great, excep...

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ALE Network, What’s Next?

My spouse keeps saying that the financial mess of the EU is largely due to the lack of leadership in Europe. Ask anyone for examples of G...

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Agile Alliance Americas

Let’s talk about boards. Not the task board, but another kind of board… “The Agile Alliance is a nonprofit organization with global...

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Happy Birthday, ALE!

On 15 February 2011 I published the blog post New Group – Agile Lean Europe (ALE), and I launched the ALE network LinkedIn group. My id...

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Best and Most Up-to-date Agile/Lean Books

On Twitter I asked my followers “Which books do you think are the best/most up-to-date in terms of Agile/Lean thinking?” I received 2...

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Why I Liked ALE2011

I did not only enjoy the ALE2011 unconference because of the wonderful people, great talks, inspiring keynotes, cool open space program, ...

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ALE… Self-Organization without Management?

Yesterday Rini van Solingen asked me if I would tattoo the ALE logo on my arm. I answered: “Absolutely not, because I have no ide...

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This Is Why You Will Attend ALE 2011

                You will not attend the Agile Lean Eu...

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