I just facilitated my 20th Scrum.org Professional Agile Leadership – Essentials training, making me the 9th most experienced Agile Leadership trainer worldwide – go figure for a guy who is not big on repetitive work. One of the reasons why I am still passionate about Agile Leadership training is the almost 200 leaders I have...
I was recently involved in discussion with a group of leaders on project review gates and how to help a product team move forward. Part of the discussion centered on using the word gate and what that means. The more interesting debate, IMHO, is on how to empower a product team and support them in...
“You are definitely not a finisher,” responded my wife over lunch after I had explained the Working Geniuses model to her. To make her point clear, she followed up by giving me a couple of examples of projects I have enthusiastically started but haven’t gotten around to finishing (yet). A completely unnecessary elaboration if you...
The newly published 2022 Business Agility Report contains insight from 296 organizations worldwide. According to the report published by Business Agility Institute, understanding your value streams and structuring your workforce and processes around them is one of three key practices to improving Business Agility. This finding is consistent with what I see when advising leaders on...
Two months ago, I finally crossed the finish line at a 100-mile Ultramarathon after dropping out on my first two attempts. Running for almost 24 hours gives you plenty of time to reflect on life in general and who in their right mind runs for nearly 24 hours in particular. One of my reflections centered...
If you are looking for inspiration on how to lead your team or organization to New Ways of Working, this list is for you. Below, I have picked 21 books that inspired me and will hopefully inspire you. The top 3 are personal picks that made an impression on me for various reasons. The remaining...
As a longtime fan of Brooks running shoes, I was looking forward to reading Brooks Running CEO Jim Weber‘s new book Running with Purpose, where he reflects on his career and the six leadership principles he has picked up along the way. I will not spoil the (entire) book here, but I will share two of Jim’s leadership...
A lot of the organizations I’m helping adopt Agile are looking to increase collaboration across the organization. Business and IT people need to work closely together to shorten feedback loops and drive down the time-to-market of new productions and solutions. The world is just too complex to solve the problems organizations face in silos. Many...
2018 was just ten days old when my mother-in-law lost her fight with cancer at only 70 years old. We deeply mourned her passing as she had played a significant role in our family. Unlike the mothers-in-law from hell you often see portrayed in comedies, she always supported me and believed I could do what...
I must admit, I sometimes deliberately, and probably more often unknowingly, provoke my clients to help them think differently about leadership and how they can help their organizations adapt to the challenges of the 21st century. Recently, it was my turn to be provoked when I started reading the book Fatal Management (original Danish title:...
