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 …
How the West was lost #2
The first article on this subject was a bit short and I would like to give some more background and detail. Before 1900 there was not much theory or anything about …
How the West was lost
The institutions in Western society are in a deep leadership crisis. The way governments, organizations and businesses manage their affairs obviously does not work in a sustainable way. An erosion …
Updated Agile Lean library
We are always looking out for new interesting write-ups, posts or video clips that explains different aspects of Lean, Agile, Scrum, Kanban – you name it. On our site we …
Explanation of Gemba
Gemba in it’s original Japanese meaning means “The Real Place”. In business the term is often used in contexts of decision making or improvement, taken to mean the place where …