Agemba arrives in the Americas
A better approach to working the Agile way A commonly heard refrain from Product Owners and Project Managers is, “we use project management tools from x, y or z, so …
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Paul Norton joins AgileLeanHouse to develop the business in the US
We are very pleased to announce that Paul Norton has joined us to take responsibility for Business Development in the USA. Paul will be our our principal advocate for Agile Lean …
Free online follow-up Event Wednesday 7. August 15:00 CET
Continuing the free follow up webinars for those who have participated in our Scrum and Agile Lean Leadership courses. The format is a short presentation of an interesting or new …
Open Space Beta – a certification course
One of the people, that have had a profound influence on the way we think about Agile Lean Organizations and Leadership, is Niels Pflaeging and his Organize for Complexity. Niels …
(Dansk) Prince2 og Scrum
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Agile Lean Leadership Appetizer in Vejle the 12. March 17:00
Agile Lean Leadership (ALL) answers the question: “What happens after we introduced Agile or Scrum in our Teams?”, it shows how to get the same benefits in the whole organization …
The Leadership Cornerstones
Cornerstone of the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Macau (1602). The original uploader was Iidxplus at Chinese Wikipedia. 2018 was a year with many challenges, debates and excursions around the …
New Estimation / Planning Poker
We have just now released the latest version of our Agile Cards, containing Estimation / Planning poker, T-shirt Estimation, Kano Estimation, Cynefin Estimation and Confidence Estimation, read more here…
Estimation as a knowledge building effort
One of the controversies that people currently delight in getting upset about is the question of whether teams working the Agile and Lean way should estimate or not. The controversy …
Delegate to another Circle
Delegate the epic to another circle. A window is opened where a circle can be selected.
Move to another Circle
Moving an epic/story to another circle will completely remove it from the current circle and create an identical one in the circle selected.
Confessions of a Scrum Trainer
“Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned! It’s been a while since my last confession.” This sentence is the prologue to many a surprising new development in movies and novels. …
Agile Lean Leadership Foundation course in Malmö, Sweden
On the 7th of November we hold an Agile Lean Leadership Foundation course in Malmö, Sweden together with our colleague Arne Åhlander and in cooperation with Softhouse AB. Read more …
New record in production of paper planes
During our different courses we often have an exercise in production of paper planes to see how to optimize value from a project. We are talking about the very effective …
The Attraction of Classic Hierarchies
During the heat-wave over Europe this past summer, I realized that the little grey cells of our brains seem to suffocate and become slow and lazy in such conditions. It …
Appetizer with full video (Telenor)
This time the Agile Lean Leadership Appetizers had come to Oslo, more precisely to Telenor at Fornebu. Christian Myrstad and Kurt Nielsen gave a 1½ hour seminar, that served local …
Appetizer in Malmö, Sweden
In the ongoing series of Agile Lean Leadership Appetizers that we give, today Arne Åhlander and Kurt Nielsen gave a 1½ hour breakfast seminar in Malmö, Sweden in cooperation with …
New Agile Library
A new version of our much loved Agile Lean Library with a host of Public Domain material collected over the years, has been released. The a look here… The latest …
How command and control works
One of my favorite cartoonists is Mort Walker, who passed away earlier this year after almost 80 years of producing comic strips. His main contribution is the cartoon Beetle Bailey, …
Appetizer held – join us for an Agile Lean Leadership Foundation course on the 20. of June
We held another one of our popular Agile Lean Leadership Appetizers in Oslo on the 24. May. Quite a crew joined us for an hour Agile Lean Leadership (ALL) answers …
Agile in 60 Seconds
The term Agile is used in many ways, but at the very least it covers different sets of values, patterns, principles and methods to cope with working in environments of …
How NOT to introduce Scrum and Agile! – 3
Constant Interruptions As the third cause behind Scrum-implementation-failures, we present: Interruptions. There are those who might say that this is the most common cause leading to implementation failures. But what …
How NOT to introduce Scrum and Agile! – 2
Spread “FUD” (fear, uncertainty and doubt)! Coming in close after number one on the list of derailing the Scrum process, we find an old classic: It consists of spreading Fear, …
Guns and Roses
No, this is not about the American hard rock band with the numerous internal fights and frictions, normally spelled “Guns N’ Roses”. It is instead about the quite surprising fact, …
Agile Lean Leadership – Afternoon seminar held
We had a quick introduction to Agile Lean Leadership in Oslo on the 22. of February in the premises of Bouvet ASA. We had quite a crowd showing up, and …