Posts Tagged: strategy

Agile is Bigger than us

Does this sound familiar? My team is really Agile! Great energizing statement, right?  Your team has adopted Agile, experimented and gets the ideas behind it.  They deliver value on a constant basis, with high quality and manage to stay close

Agile is Bigger than us

Does this sound familiar? My team is really Agile! Great energizing statement, right?  Your team has adopted Agile, experimented and gets the ideas behind it.  They deliver value on a constant basis, with high quality and manage to stay close

It all starts with quality

Delivering value all starts with quality. In the end, we want to deliver customer value, that’s our number one goal, right? How can we achieve this without quality? If we ship products with a certain level of defects at a

It all starts with quality

Delivering value all starts with quality. In the end, we want to deliver customer value, that’s our number one goal, right? How can we achieve this without quality? If we ship products with a certain level of defects at a

Free session on Servant Leadership

Friday 26th of February, I will be giving a FREE session on Servant Leadership at the Cronos offices in Kontich, Belgium. Please register here, if you want to learn more about this leadership style, and how it can help your organization

Free session on Servant Leadership

Friday 26th of February, I will be giving a FREE session on Servant Leadership at the Cronos offices in Kontich, Belgium. Please register here, if you want to learn more about this leadership style, and how it can help your organization

Comment on Fixing the Tech Industry’s Management Problem

After reading the post ‘Fixing the Tech Industry’s Management Problem’ by Steve Toback, my fingers started to tingle. I had to reflect on this. Let me try to summarize his words. Steve claims that most management teams in the technology

Comment on Fixing the Tech Industry’s Management Problem

After reading the post ‘Fixing the Tech Industry’s Management Problem’ by Steve Toback, my fingers started to tingle. I had to reflect on this. Let me try to summarize his words. Steve claims that most management teams in the technology

Visualizing adaptive vs predictive

I’ve been trying to visualize the difference between adaptive and predictive planning. This might be a good summary: Don’t plan too far in the future or you‘re going to miss out on a lot of opportunities.  

Visualizing adaptive vs predictive

I’ve been trying to visualize the difference between adaptive and predictive planning. This might be a good summary: Don’t plan too far in the future or you‘re going to miss out on a lot of opportunities.  

Scrum Gathering Munich – 10 Contract forms for your next agile project

In this session, Peter Stevens gave his view on 10 types of contracts for agile projects. As the agile manifesto states ‘Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation’, contracts are still important when working with external suppliers. The right rules enhance the

Scrum Gathering Munich – 10 Contract forms for your next agile project

In this session, Peter Stevens gave his view on 10 types of contracts for agile projects. As the agile manifesto states ‘Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation’, contracts are still important when working with external suppliers. The right rules enhance the

Fast, Cheap, Good

Fast, cheap, good: you can have any two. I’ll give you my view on this intriguing quote. Fast & Cheap This is an appealing combination. Develop fast so resource and overhead costs are lower and time to market is quicker.

Fast, Cheap, Good

Fast, cheap, good: you can have any two. I’ll give you my view on this intriguing quote. Fast & Cheap This is an appealing combination. Develop fast so resource and overhead costs are lower and time to market is quicker.

Pre-project assessment : customer collaboration

Real customer involvement is one of the key factors that make a project succeed. If your customer is prepared to go on a journey together, with equal commitment and goals, something really valuable can be created. It can be the

Pre-project assessment : customer collaboration

Real customer involvement is one of the key factors that make a project succeed. If your customer is prepared to go on a journey together, with equal commitment and goals, something really valuable can be created. It can be the

Learning agile by practice

There have recently been some blog posts about agile not producing the expected results. Posts from Martin Fowler, James Shore, Ron Jeffries and George Dinwiddie give some background to this growing feeling. I like this quote by George Dinwiddie: The

Learning agile by practice

There have recently been some blog posts about agile not producing the expected results. Posts from Martin Fowler, James Shore, Ron Jeffries and George Dinwiddie give some background to this growing feeling. I like this quote by George Dinwiddie: The

Agile in the current economic climate

  In the current financial climate, innovation and diversification will become even more important for a company’s survival.  Embracing agile throughout the organization can certainly help you gaining that market advantage.  If we just look at product delivery, agile can

Agile in the current economic climate

  In the current financial climate, innovation and diversification will become even more important for a company’s survival.  Embracing agile throughout the organization can certainly help you gaining that market advantage.  If we just look at product delivery, agile can