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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At the end of my last vacation, I had a situation in the plane, that normally doesn’t and shouldn’t happen. A passenger in the plane became scared and didn’t want to continue, he didn’t even want to sit down. After trying, in the end, the pilot decided to turn back and let the passenger off.
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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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Do you know that colleague? That person everyone tries to avoid? Because he/she is difficult to work with? Doesn’t listen? Has an “I know best” attitude? Mostly talks about what is best for him or her? And then you talk to people who worked with them some years ago? And they describe a completely different
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Even in Agile organizations, processes and tools that support processes, are very important. But you can do it in a way that makes you more Agile. And you can do it in a way that makes you less, or even not, Agile. Let’s take Jira as an example. If you want to be Agile, how
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Not so long ago there was a king. And the country of this king had three big problems. Since he was a good king, he wanted to solve those problems. So he asked two of the best advisors in his country to come to his palace.He told these advisors: ‘This country has three problems. I
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In Agile improving is important. Improving the product, improving the process, improving the team. But I believe there is one thing also important: improving yourself. In an Agile world, you should be willing to learn and grow. And there are so many options, far more than you would probably think of. So, let me mention
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