It strikes me that it is totally important for most companies that their staff is working. “Yes, I’m working on it” is the answer you want to hear. To be honest, I would get totally worried if I heard from people all the time that they were “working on it”. Working is far too expensive! […]
In this episode I talk to Kulawat Wongsaroj about Flight Levels in Thailand. More and more organizations are adopting Flight Levels in Thailand and there are good reasons for it: Flight Levels is not yet another agile scaling framework but it rather acts as a kind of glue that holds the various agile areas together […]
Since my new book Rethinking Agile was published, readers have been posting excerpts from it many times. I have noticed that many readers are particularly interested in the topic of cross-functionality. Like the Spotify model, cross-functional teams belong to the inventory of the agile reliquary shrine: their existence is usually worshiped without reflection, but often […]
TWiG adds another language to its portfolio: Portuguese. Many thanks to Wellington Tonquelski Ferreira and Wilhelm Meier for the translation! We also fixed some minor errors in the Italien version. So don’t wait and download it from the TWiG-Page!
First of all, the clocks tick differently in Bangkok – the jet lag has really got to me this time. Apart from that, I was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm I experienced during two Flight Level classes, a top management workshop, an Applying Kanban training and a talk in 12 days Bangkok. My two Flight Level […]
TWiG 1.5 is done. The biggest highlight right away: The simulation is now available in 6 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Polish and Russian) and the seventh language (Spanish) is Work in Progress. Many thanks to the TWiG Community for your support! In addition to the languages there are a few smaller and bigger changes […]
“Hooray, we have a board and we are doing standups. We are agile!” That would be nice. Many people still think of a board with colourful stickies when they think of agility. And it’s perfectly clear: Visualizing work and workflows on a board is basically a great thing and an important prerequisite for improvement. However, […]
You get what you’re optimizing for. Deming has already said, “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.” If we build a work system in which it is important that everyone is working at 100% capacity, then we will get exactly such a system. And now the important point: This does NOT […]
