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Sprints are like a water tumbler
A sprint of one week is like a small bamboo water tumbler. Sprints of three weeks are larger, heavier and tumble a three times slower than the one week tumbler. Your organization is like a web of bamboo water tumblers. Make sure they tumble with a synchronous or syncopic rhythm. Rhythm creates momentum, momentum synchronizes …
Parachute Game
We started the morning with a parachute game. Start at ground level, hold it over your head and do three steps forward. Next, sit on it. There it is, a parachute mushroom.
Writer’s Workshop
ScrumPLoP Writer’s Workshop. A very sketchy note of: *[http://hillside.net/component/content/article/65-how-to-run-plop/235-how-to-hold-a-writers-workshop Hillside Group » How to Hold a Writer’s Workshop]; and *[http://mummola.cs.tut.fi/~patterns/writers_workshop_cheatsheet.pdf Writer’s Workshop Cheat Sheet] (PDF). Just let me know if you would like a sketch that’s a bit more polished, and I’ll draw one up.
Ready Equals Done
Scrum has much ado about Definition of Ready and Definition of Done. The Definition of Ready for the current phase equals the Definition of Done for the previous. Likewise, the Definition of Done for the current phase equals the Definition of Ready for the next. They are the two sides of the same membrane. So, …
Decentrale organisaties zijn onverslaanbaar
Wat hebben ”’Geronimo”’, ”’Skype”’, ”’Wikipedia”’, ”’Open Coffee”’, ”’Al Qaida”’ en ”’Youtube”’ met elkaar gemeen? Het zijn allemaal ”’gedecentraliseerde netwerken”’. Rod Beckstrom en Ori Brafman gebruiken deze voorbeelden om een nieuw management systeem te modelleren. De toekomst van de organisatie is een gedecentraliseerde organisatie in plaats van een top down gecentraliseerde bedrijfsstructuur. Het boek beschrijft de …
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Lenige planning
De term ‘planning’ heeft behoorlijk verschillende betekenissen voor iedereen. Menig mens heeft er bijna een trauma aan overgehouden—met name van de strakke, dogmatische, volg-de-planning-of-ik-schiet-versie die met ijzeren hand gevolgd dient te worden. Tijd dus om ‘planning’ nieuw leven in te blazen en te ontdoen van haar negatieve lading. Voor mij betekent planning niets meer en …
Cambrian House, Home of Crowdsourcing
[http://www.cambrianhouse.com/?ref=Martien ] [http://harryvandervelde.nl/ Harry van der Velde] tipped me on [http://www.cambrianhouse.com/?ref=Martien Cambrian House] some time ago. What a wonderful [http://wiki.aardrock.com/holacracy holacratic] way of [[Totally Unique Thoughts|turning thoughts into things]]. Community-owned—so “[http://wiki.aardrock.com/One_From_Many Dee Hock]” in its chaorganization. So co-creative. While preparing a proposal for [http://andarr.nl/ Andarr] this morning, I decided to sign up. Looking forward to …
Innovation and Agility
Jim Highsmith on [http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CutterConsortiumEnterpriseSuite/~3/127107226/apm070621.html Innovation and Agility]: I have always maintained that one characteristic of a good agile leader is the ability to balance: up-front planning with on-going planning, early architecture with evolutionary architecture, and innovation with efficiency. It is a difficult balancing act. If CEOs can’t seem to get the balancing right, how can …
Continuous Partial Attention
My son [http://martijn.van.steenbergen.nl/ Martijn] recently started working for [http://q42.nl/ Q42]. One of his new colleagues pointed him to [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/continuous_partial_attention.php Continuous Partial Attention] on whether or not to unplug from the ever increasing flow of interruptions of the grid and focus on getting some work done. Becoming ever more agile—do some yoga. Thanks Martijn & colleague!