The Ritual Rain Dance around the Annual Budget
Over the last few months, I have spent some time understanding the concept of Beyond Budgeting (BB) and its relationship to what we call Agile Lean Leadership (ALL) – creating …
The Age-long Tension between Hierarchy and Human Freedom
Examining the roots and consequences of power-based hierarchy and the alternatives We are opening the Webinar season on 2024-01-31 at 19:00 CET, 1 PM EST, with the first in the …
The Case for Freedom and Responsibility in Organizations
50+ years ago Janis Joplin sang: “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose…”. She was a wild and tragic figure looking for freedom, but never found it. She …
Complacency – An underappreciated form and a root cause of technical debt
Beware of the cliff you do not see, that you should have seen!
Have you tried Cool Estimation yet?
Are you focusing on Value when building your products? Engage your stakeholders in estimating the Business Value of what you want to make.
Webinar: From Hierarchy to a Network of Teams
Wednesday, May 31, 7 PM CEST/1 PM EST. Duration: 1 hour Presenters: Kurt Nielsen and Paul Norton When you have been used to doing something one way for any length …
Article: From Hierarchy to a Network of Teams
Agile Lean Leadership is a framework for creating a sustainable and resilient networked organization as an alternative to the classic, top-down hierarchy.
It has provisions for serving the customers, resolution of challenges, escalation, and handling of crosscutting concerns.
Free Meetup: We have a Dream – Supporting Business Recovery through Education in Ukraine
Join Dr. Liudmyla Petrenko, Dr. Lyubomyr Matsekh and Kurt Nielsen to hear about their dream of offering business training through a collaborative effort between universities and other institutions. The purpose …
Call for Sponsorship of Ukranian Support
Agile Lean House is providing free training, consultancy and software tools, but we have limited resources, so we are asking other organizations to become co-sponsors in this important initiative.
Free Workshop – Introduction to Agile Lean Leadership
In this workshop, we will present the ALL framework and look at its five differentiating constraints.
Free Story Mapping Workshop for 20 participants
Can Story Mapping be an Art form? How can it be used to develop ideas and gain perspectives on a project?
Join the free workshop on Tuesday, March 21, 10:00-11:00 CET
Article: What’s on your mind? Together, Everyone Achieves More!
This article describes an engaging process for projects, teams or departments to handle challenges. The process supports team development and creates a space for knowledge sharing and skill development.
Blog: Background of Scrum and Agile – Schwaber and Sutherland
Kurt Nielsen’s thoughts on the contributions of the Scrum founders – Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland.
Free webinar: A Kaleidoscope of Product Owner Repertoires
How do we choose between many good ideas and many seemingly urgent requirements when developing a product or navigating a project? How do we create the most amount of value and at the same time mitigate risk?
Newsletter: Sensory Overload
Our heads are spinning, we can’t see the forest for the trees, there is noise in the system. There are lots of idioms to describe the state of confusion caused by sensory overload, but how can we get clarity and focus on what really matters?
Free webinar: Turning Feedback into real Customer Value
Constructive feedback is the foundation of all good product or service development. Join our free webinar on February 15, 7 PM CET.
Popular webinar “Decision-Making without the Classic Hierarchy” (Engelsk)
See the webinar at its full length and download slides and materials as well!
Newsletter: Organizational Paralysis
The role of Product Owner is largely undervalued in organizations, either from fear of ceding power or of change. But active and competent POs may be the key to curing organizational paralysis.
New content addition to Scrum courses
Attend one of our upcoming Scrum Master courses and experience the new training segment on how to create sustainable workflows for personal work.
Free webinar: Decision-making without the classic hierarchies
This presentation will give you an overview of values to subscribe to, principles to follow, and practical tools to deploy. Come and be inspired on how to approach effective decision-making without the classic hierarchy.
FREE WEBINAR: Psychological Safety – a personal case story
It’s one thing to read books and articles, it’s another to hear inspirational talks about a pressing subject – such as Psychological Safety. And it is quite another thing to experience it yourself, especially from a position of severe vulnerability.
Article: A Lesson in Engagement
This is the story of a journey of many months through unknown territory together with a couple of departments in the Danish Health Care system. Over this long, involuntary course …
FREE WEBINAR: The Scrum Master and emergent risk awareness
Wednesday, November. 23, 7 PM CET/1 PM EST. Duration: 1 hour Presenters: Robert Fujdiar and Kurt Nielsen The Scrum Master as the Risk Immune System for the Organization. The role …
FREE WEBINAR: Crucial Conversations and Conflict Resolution
Thursday, November. 10 7 PM CET/12 PM CST. Duration: 1 hour Presenters: Tom Mellor and Kurt Nielsen In our next webinar on Thursday, November 10, we will cover skills needed …
FREE WEBINAR: Four ways to do Collaborative Estimation
Wednesday, October. 26 7 PM CET. Duration: 1 hour Presenters: Kurt Nielsen, Jacob Broberg and Anne Broberg Estimation as a knowledge-building effort. With traditional project management, many estimates and predictions …
