Lead and work the Agile, Lean way!
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.
General Stanley McChrystal (SMC), who from 2003 led the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq, wrote a book called “Team of Teams” in 2015 about his learnings in Iraq …
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 …
In Denmark we have a phenomenon that we call “Black Sun”. It happens in the fall when thousands of starlings gather in the marshlands of Jutland and prepare for their …
Normally we think of agility as man’s best friend jumping through hoops and performing other tricks, however Agile is also a modern way of organising work and achieving better …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …