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 …
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, …
Complexity once again: Liminal Cynefin
Often we find that it is the borderline areas of concepts that really define their true nature. So it is with complexity. Dave Snowden has once again, true to his …
Complexity – the human condition
Throughout most of the history of human civilization and society, mankind has had the understanding that we only have limited insight into cause and effect in the world. People have …
New initiative – a book
At AgileLeanHouse our vision is to see organizations getting better at creating value for those they serve. We try to move towards that vision in a number of ways by …
Reclaim and proclaim
In the previous articles (#1, #2 and #3) I wrote about how the west was lost to the neo-Taylorist managerial totalitarianism. The latest article ended on a slightly lighter note …
Leadership on the other side of the fence
Through the last articles I investigated some of the studies and narratives about management and leadership, and how the West was lost to that particular style of management that can be …
Agile Lean Leadership appetizer
Since 2001 Scrum has seen widespread use in all kind of projects, especially around product development. In the larger perspective this has begun to flow together with the streams of …
How the West was lost #3, reclaiming
Is it really possible to reclaim the territory in our organizations that have been lost to neo-Taylorists? I am convinced that we can, and we will end this article with …
Course in Agile Lean Leadership
We, a group of Scandinavian Scrum Trainers, have created a set of courses and services in Agile Lean Leadership, where we generalize the Agile and Lean patterns found in Scrum …
How NOT to introduce Scrum and Agile! – 1
The most common way to fail in introducing Scrum is to call it Scrum, but to bastardize it beyond recognition. It can happen out of ignorance as well as with …