The Company to Consumer model under threat teambrunel.com Originally I became interested in agile software development when I started to discover a pattern between great teamwork in yacht racing and teams that produced software. Some of the greatest software teams that I worked with were people working together on open source projects. Thousands of people worked together in self-organizing teams throughout their technology stack, much as if they had belonged to a single organization. Could that model work in more organizations? There was an essential thing missing though - most of these teams were making things that were useful to themselves but not necessarily to a user who would be willing to pay. Motivation was often very idealistic: working on free (as in liberty) software usually entailed working for free (as in beer). Some projects became wildly successful, imagine a world without Linux , Wikipedia or Bitcoin . But do you remember Joomla , M...
This was a blog post on one of the sites of Highberg , in Dutch. The blog is about: 1) Agile is not a goal 2) Change should be continuous, not following a plan 3) Change should not be top-down or bottom-up but collaborative Drie Agile-transformatielessen van een Agile Coach In de wereld van Agile ontwikkeling deelt onze Agile Coach, Dennis Mansell, de drie meest waardevolle lessen die hij heeft geleerd. Ontdek de essentiƫle inzichten voor een succesvolle Agile transformatie. Hoe ben je in de wereld van Transformaties terecht gekomen? Bijna tien jaar geleden ging ik over van een leven als zeiler en ondernemer naar fulltime Agile coach en/of programma manager. Ik kende Scrum inmiddels redelijk goed uit de softwareontwikkeling en had wat Design Thinking ervaring. Dit was een zeer zeldzame combinatie, want veel bedrijven wilden toen "Agile" werken. Intussen heb ik organisaties gezien van startups tot eeuwen-oude familiebedrijven, online gemeenschappen tot overheidsinstant...
About a year ago, I went to a training given by Sandra Bouckaert and Lydie van de Laar on the basics of Deep Democracy . My wife was 35 weeks pregnant and I was working on a project with worryingly limited financing so I was not exactly in the perfect 'zen' mindset for a day of mind-battering brainstorming. I expected to leave the day dazed and confused, yet found myself in the car buoyed up and even excited about what I had just experienced. Deep Democracy is a method developed in South Africa at the end of the apartheid regime and specializes in getting minority views heard. It is concurrently a team-building tool and an ideation tool.
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