Radical Improvement through Transparency and Collaboration
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 …
On July 3rd there was an article on finans.dk entitled “Half of the working population in Denmark think they work on irrelevant things”, they call this pseudo-work. The article is …
We are continuing our summer school 2020 in order to spread the knowledge about Scrum, Agile, Lean and other resilient patterns. The format is a short presentation of an interesting …
The current management paradigm is broken beyond repair. As the 21st Century progresses it becomes increasingly clear that the top-down hierarchy of control based on power, known for centuries, doesn’t …
We are about to start opening up society again after working as if we were on another planet for two months using solely online tools. We have had to very …
We are entering the second month of Corona lockdown, with almost no ordinary activity, increasingly facing a world with little resemblance to the previous one. Inspired by the image above, …
Sudden drops into Chaos It has been a month since the Prime Minister of Denmark (Mette Frederiksen) ordered the country to lock down. I was at a blues concert when …
This week our media has made some observations, reflections and revelations of unusual situations and reactions which are worth noting and which I cannot avoid seeing from the perspective of …
The current management model with deep hierarchies and big upfront planning is broken. To survive we need every individual in the organization voluntarily to engage fully in solving the complex …
The title, which is a quote from W. Edwards Deming, became painfully relevant today. The news about the American bank Wells Fargo reached our shores. Wells Fargo was fined a …
Last week from the 4.-6. February, a couple of us from ALH joined the Open Leadership Network Symposium in Tampa, Florida where the theme was “Dare to Invite“.s we headed …
An inspiring group of people had found their way to Vejle in Denmark on the 20.-23. January 2020 to work on the practical details of collaboration in the Agile Lean …
We are seeking collaborators and partners. At AgileLeanHouse we have worked with Agile and Scrum for 15 years. However, the market is moving and consolidating. Many SMEs are looking to introduce Agile and Lean. At the same time we are losing ground in large companies and the Public sector to SAFe and other Taylorist-Agile hybrid frameworks.
In 1983 Cyndi Lauper recorded a cover version of Tom Gray’s underground hit “Money changes everything”. I have had the main theme of that song reverberating in my head for …
Tuesday the 21st of January from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, we host a new course in our Agile Lean Leadership series called “Teams, Advanced”. It will take place in …
Last week we were at the Scrum Gathering in Vienna, orchestrated by the Scrum Alliance. There were many interesting topics, and we made many new contacts and people who wanted …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
“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. …