I have a love-hate relationship with feedback. On one hand, I know it’s essential for growth and learning, and I want to improve as a person. On the other hand, I often find myself resistant to it. So, what’s the issue? For me, feedback comes in two forms: feedback aimed at changing someone, and feedback […]
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You have speakers and you have listeners. Speakers tell you how the world is. Listeners ask you how you see the world. I am a speaker. I write blogs. I tell you how the world is. But I have surrounded myself in my job with 3 wonderful listeners. Because I know they are important and needed to achieve things. It’s just that: in general,
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You might have read Scrum is your enemy. I am here to tell you it is not. Scrum can be used to get anything you want, no matter what it will cost your colleagues, your company, or others. Even better: if you do it right, others will get blamed. Let me teach you how. Lesson 1: You are
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As you might guess, the image of this blog is created by AI, in my case Stable Diffusion. I struggled with it because there are not a lot of pictures with green clouds. So, every picture with a green cloud had a green shade over the whole picture. Because of that the green cloud did
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When I look at how Agile a team is, I do not look for Scrum masters, product owners, sprints, or retrospectives. Not even when they follow the Scrum method. It doesn’t interest me that much. When I want to know how Agile a team is, I listen. I listen to how they talk. I listen
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I’ve worked in several Agile teams. I found out in general there are two kinds of Agile teams: the democracy and the dictatorship. The dictatorship is well known, but often denied. And even the teams who do it, know it is wrong. This is a team, where 1 person decides what is good or bad.
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Ever had that discussion about who is responsible? You do not feel responsible, but someone else says you were made responsible? While you say that you were not? Or the moments where you think you transferred responsibility to someone and the other person denies that? Here is a checklist to determine who is really responsible.
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In every company, there are problems. But have you also been in a situation where you looked back and thought: “Why didn’t I know this problem was so serious?” You knew about it, but you ignored it. Or have you been in a situation where someone else asked you: “Why didn’t you take this problem
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Currently, in my work, I do stuff that is not my work, nor my responsibility. If I would not do it, it would not reflect badly on me. On the contrary, I would probably have less work pressure. And in general, rightfully so, doing something that is not in your job description is not seen
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Your company or team has tried everything. Scrum, DevOps, Lean, SAFe, coaches, external help, internal help, and fill in other options you tried. Still, you keep having the same problems. Maybe they even become worse. What are you doing wrong? First a note in the beginning. I am not an Agile expert. I am an
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