Are you too busy too improve your process or your customer’s experience?
I stumbled upon this quote today - it is an old quote but still today so much of it is true. Funny how we don't have the time to improve, but we have plenty of time to perform work inefficiently and to resolve the same problems...
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity
"Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind." Dee Hock, founder of Visa. ...
How fast can you implement and test new ideas?
I stumbled upon a very spot-on blogpost on the impact of the speed of implementing new ideas and features in businesses that are (highly) dependent on ICT / technological support. Most often the ICT release cycle is the bottle neck to being agile, to being able to receive consumer's...
Manage Work, not workers
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Agile engineering at Spotify
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Why Managers Hate Agile
Why don’t Agile and management get along? In a poll last Wednesday of some 400 people working in many different firms where the practices known as Agile and Scrum are being implemented, 88{217aa33fcafce208ded50bc33c53624345cce6dc505518eb41906b75349d1063} reported tension between the way Agile/Scrum teams are managed in their organization...
Expectations (workshop) in a fuzzy Agile world
When talking about roles in an Agile team, we’re generally discouraged from making explicit roles on people, as we expect everyone to ‘be a team’ and be cross functional, t-shaped individuals (or simply, ‘team members’). We also have defined roles which are difficult to define,...
Are You a Perfect Fit for the Job? Then You Won’t Get It.
Perfect Fit for the Position I have heard it over and over about how you are a perfect fit for the position.I hate to tell you that, if you are really a perfect fit for the position, you will almost always lose!WHAT???Let’s start at the beginning of...
Startup Factories
The Next Big Thing You Missed: Tech Superstars Build ‘Startup Factories’The startup world is driven by a familiar formula: you get an idea, you build a product based on your idea, you start a business to sell your product, your business succeeds—or, more likely, it...
The importance of the Business Architect role
Business Architecture is an important new corporate activity and one of the three prime activities of Executive Management: Strategy | Business Architecture | Operations & Optimization.Business Architecture is performed by cross-organizational generalists who possess professional skills for transforming corporate strategy into business designs that enable organisations to...
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