It must have been about twenty five years ago. I was working for a large international consultancy firm. One of the reliable ones. The ones that you would think that had everything worked out. But I guess this was merely the product of my...
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Transition to Agile, how does it work? (Part 1)
I just started as an Agile coach for a big player in the financial market in the Netherlands. This company chose 2 years ago for a transition to Agile for all of their ICT projects and employees (app. 800) within the ICT-department. So I stepped in...
Read moreTo shift or not to shift (the software industry paradigm)
The software industry has for a long time been dominated by industrial views and beliefs. The universally accepted paradigm was in fact a copy-paste of old industrial routines and theories. Essential in this landscape of knowledge, views and...
Read moreEvolving agile
Without any doubt agile is the biggest evolution in software development approaches since the introduction of waterfall back in the early seventies. And yes. Agile is an evolution rather than a revolution. The best practices and techniques in agile...
Read moreDeath by Dogma versus Agile Assembly
On November 3, 2011 I presented the keynote of the Agile Open Holland Conference in Dieren. During this challenging talk I discussed the current state of affairs in agile organizations and projects and the effects of the recent strong rise in...
Read moreBusiness Process Management and Mastering Data in the Enterprise
"A failure to address service-oriented data redesign at the same time as process redesign is a recipe for disaster." Michael Blechar On recent trips to client sites over the summer, the same problem has arisen regarding enterprise Business process...
Read moreThe customer-oriented enterprise: (3) Scrum in the Customer-Oriented Enterprise
Thoughts on empirical management, Business Agility and Enterprise Scrum (part 3/3) Although Scrum does not have prescribed roles for middle and other forms of management, needn’t have, there will obviously be a shift in management...
Read moreThe customer-oriented enterprise: (2) Scrum in the land of Middle Management
Thoughts on empirical management, Business Agility and Enterprise Scrum (part 2/3) So, Scrum is to be applied for improving the relationship of an organization in a broad, business sense to markets, customers and competitors as part...
Read moreThe customer-oriented enterprise: (1) Scrum in the land of Extremistan
Thoughts on empirical management, Business Agility and Enterprise Scrum (part 1/3) The game of Scrum knows no more than 3 roles: Development Team, Product Owner and Scrum Master. These roles have proven to be sufficient for developing,...
Read moreThe two-speed Information Organisation: the BIM challenge for the next decade?
99% of the bottom-line impact for any organization is occurring at the coal-face within the very business processes that, attract, provision, service and communicate with our customers. Therefore, the strategic view of the aggregated...
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