The ‘Why’ of going agile

#5 – The ‘Why’ of Going Agile ‘Going agile’ will most likely increase the value-add of your organization, happiness of employees and engagement of customers, but it will not make you better at meeting the Iron Triangle. Therefore, if your […]

Grass vs. Glass

#205 – Grass vs. Glass Like any other big change or initiative, if going agile is just a grassroot movement in your organization without the buy-in, support and sponsorship from Upper Management, it’ll eventually hit the glass ceiling and stop […]

Work On This

#165 – Work On This Sometimes, especially in the beginning of agile transformations, we see Managers take on a Product Owner cap and act as a part-time PO. This can lead to sub-optimal dynamics in the interaction between the Product […]

When Asked to Coach

#143 – When Asked to Coach In Strip 135, we suggest that we, as Agile Coaches, should start focusing on the relevant disciplines not directly related to Scrum in order to truly improve organizations. The potentially most impactful and valuable […]

Change Management

#131 – Change Management If you really want to become ‘agile’, remember to manage your agile transformation as an actual change—a one that never ends, that is.

The Snap

#109 – The Snap An agile transformation should be managed as a change. Therefore, after the transformation is when we really need qualified and present agile coaches in order to preserve our agile ways of thinking and working. In the […]

Reunion in Snowbird

#50 – Reunion in Snowbird Authors’ Comments: Here, more than 20 years after the 17 thought-leaders met in The Lodge in Snowbird, Utah, we thought it was time to revisit the agile manifesto. Therefore, this is our humble suggestion on […]

No More SAFe

#196 – No More SAFe We’re starting to see more and more AgileBS Consultancies claim that their so-called “agile integrity” simply won’t allow them to sell SAFe services to their customers. We can respect that they have a professional standpoint, […]

The Quest

#20 – The Quest If you can only focus on one thing, focus on changing the organizational culture to align with an agile one; to overcome the unwillingness to change it, bring forth the awesome examples from your agile pilots […]