Posted by Geert Chielens in Agile on 03/02/2021
You know the story, long projects leads to long cycle times which makes people eager to get as much as possible in to the project and thus cycle time goes up, and more stuff goes in… The foot in the door problem is a common anti pattern in project based organization. "Lets cram this feature [...]
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Posted by Geert Chielens in Agile on 08/09/2020
In analogy with Charles Darwin's survival of the fittest, we can state that for companies it not the strongest that survives, nor the most intelligent. Agile methodologies such as Scrum are all about generating value for organizations. But few people are able to define 'value' into something that's actually meaningful in the context of a [...]
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Posted by Geert Chielens in Agile / Agile Management on 25/08/2020
You might have noticed, but lots of our posts are talking about Agile. While we emphasise all sorts of aspects, we realized we actually never really explained what agile is about. We’ll rectify that…. Many people believe agile to just be ‘the latest management fad’. Very often they scoff at the idea of [...]
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Posted by Geert Chielens in Agile Management on 06/05/2020
Lockdown measures are gradually getting loosened throughout Europe, each country at their own pace. The past months we've all been going through some cycles dealing with the present tsunami wave that hit us all by surprise: Initially we all denied this wave was building up and about to hit us in the most brutal way [...]
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Posted by Geert Chielens in Agile on 15/04/2020
Agile (with a capital “A”) has been gaining popularity, has been trending even. Many companies have done their explorative steps. Some at larger scale than others. It appeared that agile had won in global acceptance. In recent years, more and more Agile hate articles are appearing online, and it actually even seems to become a [...]
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Posted by Geert Chielens in Agile on 30/03/2020
With Renatio we developed our agile coaching while doing it. We introduced teams into an approach that was focused on 5 key targets : Establish a direct connection with the external user/customer Create truly cross-functional teams Focus on products instead of projects Include product management in the team Introduce design thinking Would one call this [...]
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