Posted by Kristian Spek mid-afternoon: November 26th, 2011
When I start a new consulting job at an organization, I like to ask people how their organization became the organization it is today. Most of the time, people start telling me about the history of their organization or the values and goals they have. People sometimes start telling me about the people who work in the organization. But I have never got an answer that fullfilled my question completely. What made organizations what they are right now? After reading ‘Die Frage nach der Technik’ written by Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), I got an answer that could help me structure all the answers people gave to me. (more…)
Posted by Pieter Rijken in the early morning: September 30th, 2011
I used to be a big fan of tools. I still am…..but not as big a fan as I used to be. This changed after I realized the meaning of ‘Individuals and interactions over processes and tools’. Especially the “interactions over tools” part. This week’s blog Eat your failure cake! Learn from your mistakes. motivated me to share one of my failure cakes with you.
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Posted by erustenburg in the early morning: September 27th, 2011
Running a great session at the ALE2011 conference last week gave me a great level of energy. Facilitating a story mapping session gave me a great boost of confidence. Running a similar session in a different context with a different group toke that confidence away. By eating my failure cake I was able to celebrate my failing and opened my eye to enable me to learn from the failure.
Posted by Erwin van der Koogh late at night: August 9th, 2011
Today I was asked a really interesting question by a client: “Agile is very simple, why do you need Agile coaches?”.
That is a pretty fundamental question to ask of any Agile coach and after my initial shock we did come up with some good answers.
But the question (and the initial answers) kept nagging at me all day. And while I sat down with a glass of good whisky in the evening I got back to the question. Here is what I came up with:
- Agile is simple, not easy
- Experience bootstraps learning
- Organizational gravity
Posted by Olav Maassen in the early afternoon: March 21st, 2011
When hiring a new member to your team, how do you find out if she is really as good as she says? Currently the interview is a standard practice and an assessment is gaining popularity. Thanks to social networks like linkedin.com other intangible factors previously unused come into play: respect and reputation. These can now seriously effect your career (both positive and negative). Let’s take the next step: learn from games and introduce achievements.