Aim High – Start Small
“Aim high – Start small, but start!” that was my answer to the question in how to get started with an agile transformation. Thankful that I have been invited to … Continue reading Aim High – Start Small
Lean and Agile Development in Pharma and MedTech
“Aim high – Start small, but start!” that was my answer to the question in how to get started with an agile transformation. Thankful that I have been invited to … Continue reading Aim High – Start Small
What has automotive development in common with medical device development? In both areas there are many processes, standards, regulations. More on this topic I discussed with Leonid Lezner in his … Continue reading Autoagil Podcast
For all who want to revisit my talk “Changing Pharma: Wie ein MS Project Plan mein Leben veränderte” I hold at the Manage Agile Conference 2019 in Berlin, the Slides … Continue reading My slides from Manage Agile 2019 are available
Do you think Agile in Pharma is impossible? Is strategy something that do for 2 days every 12 month with your top level managers? Do you believe people cannot volunteer for their projects? Then be careful – this video might scare you!
Now it is official: I´m a Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT). From now on I can and will provide Certified Kanban Trainings within my company. So much looking forward … Continue reading Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer
I am really looking forward to speaking tomorrow at the Agile Round Table of DB. Had the pleasure of joining this great event several times so fare as a participant. … Continue reading #Empowering.Team meets #DBART
What are possibilities to slice down your product requirements and structure your backlog in order to increase impact for your customer? This is the question that Carolin Salz and I tried to answer. In a previous post we we already shared her personal journey from Project Management to value-oriented business agility. With this post we want to share some of our results with you.
From Project Manager to Agile practitioner. That’s in short the story of Carolin Salz. Today she supports companies where you might not even expect agile development – like carpenters or construction companies. Not for introducing Scrum in their IT department, but striving for more agility in their business processes. This is the first of two posts on our work related to deriving a value-oriented Product Strategy.
From Eliyahu Goldratt What you will learn: A business novel focusing on project management. The novel aims to provoke readers to examine and reassess their business practices and transform the thinking … Continue reading Read: Critical Chain
From Eliyahu Goldratt What you will learn: Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is a gripping novel which is transforming management thinking. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager … Continue reading Read: The Goal
From Donald G. Reinertsen What you will learn: The current approach to product development has institutionalized a set of dysfunctional beliefs. Besides others, beliefs like the one that Efficiency is good or that … Continue reading Read: The Principles of Product Development Flow
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From Esther Derby, Diana Larsen What you will learn: “Charly went nuts in the planning meeting!” Continuous inspection and adaptation of procedures, ways of working and interactions is one of … Continue reading Read: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
for Metrics and more Description: For all that struggle with Agile Metrics for me one of the best sources to get Information and help are the books of Dan Vacanti. … Continue reading Visit: Actionable Agile
for Metrics and more Description: Focussed Objective provides Expertise in the area of Forecasting and Estimating, Portfolio Planning, Risk Management, Metric Selection and Programs, Probabilistic Modeling as well as Metric analysis … Continue reading Visit: Focussed Objective
Ever wondered why the 500 ppt slides on corporate strategy did fail in execution, communication and operationalization? Yesterday I had the honor to work with Markus Andrezak, Carolin Salz, Oliver … Continue reading Doing Strategy
Agile Books Review Description: A podcast about books. Agile books. Every month, Justyna and Paul review a different agile book, sharing our thoughts, elevator pitches for the books, favorite quotations, and … Continue reading Listen: Agile Book Club Podcast
Principle-based Agile Implementation in Conservative Environment Co-Authored by Chris Keller Driven by the need for increased efficiency in operational processes a multitude of modern organizational forms are emerging that seriously … Continue reading Next Stop: Agile
From Google-CEO Eric Schmidt, Founder Larry Page and Senior Vice President Jonathan Rosenberg. What you will learn: This book was recommended to me by Sohrab Salimi and first I thought … Continue reading Read: How Google Works
for Business Agility and more Description: Johannes is an Agile Coach focussed on Leadership and Team Coaching. Since 2003 he is applying and coaching agile principles and practices and knows … Continue reading Visit: Johannes Geske – Your Guide to Business Agility
for Agile Consulting and more Description: “agile42, founded in Berlin in 2007, provides world-class expertise, training and coaching on Lean-Agile development methods including Scrum, Kanban, Systems thinking and Lean and … Continue reading Visit: Agile42
From Mike Burrows See also Question Everything What you will learn: When did you ever question the habit of putting dates behind each and every activity you are doing? “Until … Continue reading Read: Kanban from the Inside
From Frederic Laloux What you will learn: Frederic Laloux provides insights in the principles of self-managing organizations and gives examples of companies where he studied those. For me “Reinventing organizations” … Continue reading Read: Reinventing Organizations
From Tom DeMarco What you will learn: This book is an amazing summary of principles of effective organizational Slack and misconception in our current thinking of efficiency. Tom DeMarco describes his … Continue reading Read: Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
For Kanban, Enterprise Agility and more Description: “Even for the most successful of companies, the world is spinning faster and faster – continuous improvements are becoming more and more important … Continue reading Visit: LEANability
From Pete Behrens Recommendation: Beginners, Managers Language: English
From Niklas Modig & Pär Åhlström What you will learn: There is nothing more to say than Professor Keith Goffin sayed about this book: “This book on Lean Management is … Continue reading Read: This is Lean
Prioritizing the product backlog and being focused on doing the right things first needs clarity about the conditions you are working in. Product Owners need to evaluate the circumstances and … Continue reading Exchange on value based task breakdown with Carolin Salz
Visual Workmanagement at Sanofi – A Journey towards organizational effectiveness At the Lean Kanban Central Europe conference 2018 Thomas van der Burg was giving a talk on Visual Workmanagement. He … Continue reading #LKCE18 Talk and Panel Discussion
“This much should be obvious: You can´t plan to have everyone occupied 100% of their time on fixed-date work, allow them to be interrupted by expedited items, and still expect … Continue reading QUESTI?N EVERYTHING (18/02): Mike Burrows
I will speak at the Lean Kanban Central Europe Conference in Hamburg beginning of November 2018 about Visual Workmanagement and how we use evolutionary change to develop out Lab towards … Continue reading I am Speaking at Lean Kanban Central Europe
I have the pleasure to work with incredible talented people like Holger Nils Pohl and his colleague Beni in cologne on visualization of some of our key learnings for my … Continue reading Work Visual
Some weeks ago I had the pleasure to be interviewed by Tanja Könemann (Creditreform) for an Article on Agile implementation in large organizations and more conservative environments. She did a … Continue reading What doesn’t fit will be made to fit
“A knowledge worker who doesn’t share his knowledge actually damages the organization.” – Isabel De Clercq This quote is taken from the great book “Social Technologies in Business“. In first … Continue reading QUESTI?N EVERYTHING (18/01): Isabel De Clercq
Last week I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Klaus Leopold for his video Blog on Lean Business Agility. Here you can find the results: Lean Business Agility E026: … Continue reading Interview with Klaus Leopold from LEANability
This week I successfully finished the last of four inspiring and amazing workshops in my journey to become an Enterprise Kanban Coach. It was a tough but incredible mind opening … Continue reading Enterprise Kanban Coach
Would you agree or disagree to the following statement: A development team with high utilization creates more value than a team with lower utilization? Are you sure? I have been … Continue reading Rare-Earth Work: The economics of Slack
One of my first exercises as a Team Leader was to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the team members of my department. For team analysis I reviewed literature and … Continue reading Team Transition
Imagine a meeting room filled with People watching on results of the last project. While the project manager explains why this project has not been executed successfully and the majority … Continue reading Safe to Fail
Just to make it clear from the beginning: There is no easy change or transition. In the human language „known“ has the meaning of „safe“, while „unknown“ always means kind … Continue reading The biggest challenge
I’m not very old, but I promise I have some good years behind me since I started my professional career several years ago. As I started, it was natural to … Continue reading Risk that your teams outgrow you!
2013: I’m standing in the copying room, waiting anxiously for the copying machine to warm up and print a working plan. While waiting, all the sounds in my head went … Continue reading How it started…
Hi there! Today we went “live” with our own Web-Page! 🙂 We are collecting and publishing content for Visual Workmanagement, Agile Leadership and Product Development Strategies – aiming to find more people who … Continue reading Let´s start #EMPOWERING.TEAMs!