Stoos – What’s that? It’s not a cold. It’s a network discussion a paradigm change within leadership. Changing from “I telling you” towards “I ask and we do”. And yes, it’s also a small Swiss city where the first initial meeting was held – and…
What does Agile Leaders do – Part 1

In 2008 I was employed as a Project Manager at e-conomic. Within the first year we change the IT-development organisation to be become more agile (the classic approach, also named as Agile adaptation). This change lead to removal of many…
Memories of Agile Coach Camp Denmark 2013 (ACCDK13)

This Agile Coach Camp event was held in Dragør Strandhotel, Denmark from the 30th of May to the 1st of June 2013. I must say that the weather was fantastic and since many of the sessions could be outside we…
Open questions for your 1-to-1 conversation – Agile Management Part 7

Open questions for your one-to-one conversation How are you doing? Do you know what is expect of you? Do you have the equipment and other materials to do you job effectively? At work, do you have the possibilities to work and do what…
Team conducted Performance appraisal – Agile management part 5

A new way to conduct Performance appraisal by team effort. I heard about this team performance appraisal from Jorgen Appelo. This is kind of a game and has already many names. Kudo bok, hugs and more. It basically breaks down…
People over tools and processes – Agile management part 4

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. I don’t think that tools and processes is worthless, no I think tools and processes are valuable but not as valuable as people. Management should primary focus on people and only secondary on…
Notes about the Agile MINDSET – Agile Management – Part 3

I just love this picture with these boys trying and clearly are failing bad. They extend their world and learn a lot from this experiment versus other kids sitting nice and neat in the sofa and reading in a picture…
Performance Appraisal! – Agile management part 1

Do the yearly or semi- yearly event of Performance Appraisal embrace an agile mindset? I believe not, Performance Appraisal is preventing the release of employees agile mindset. Maybe it’s due to the way managers act and handles the event of…
Leaving Diana Larsen at Dansk Bank

Watching Diana Larsen in Danske Bank recently presenting her new focus on Start Well Title for the talk was Start Well: Launching Projects and Teams for High Performance and Hyper-Productivity Agenda: Definition: High Performance, Hyper productivity, successful delivery Starting Well:…