I have struggled with the thinking behind the “SAFe implementation roadmap”. It all just looks so simple, just do these workshop, invite these people, and in a couple of weeks you will have about 100 people working in a new way. And if you are really good, like Dean Leffingwell…

Many would agree that product development is a problem in the complex domain. The more we alter our product and the more our user use it, our problems change, turning product development into this dance of probe–sense–respond or build measure learn. …

Had a way too pleasant beer session yesterday, will update the last two days some other time :)

This was the most useful day for me so far. The day started off with lean grounding and games an exercises around lean. Great game to talk about waste with managers. After lunch we talked about Agile structure model, with ingredients borrowed from LeSS. From there we looked at how…

After the morning check-in our group where the first to try one of Simons new games fresh from the print shop. We worked in small groups to lay out the timeline of historical events that have an influence on agile today, starting in the 15th century. It was an interesting…

My colleague Fredrik Viljesjö and I are attending the Enterprise Agile Coach Bootcamp. It’s a five day course with two certifications from ICAgile. This is my attempt to summarize what the camp was all about. The first day was focused around future search where we, in summary, build a common…

I view the agile movement as giving power to those who do the actual work. Who needs a framework when all we need is teams talking directly to customers to validate new ideas in short iterative learning loops? Lets figure out the rest as we go along. This approach is…

Activity-based Working (ABW) — design different workplaces to suit different activities of your work. Sounds great doesn’t it. If I want to work alone undisturbed go to a silent room If I would like to talk to my colleagues I sit in a semi-focus room If I need to do…

I joined the LeSS Coach Camp in Berlin the other weekend. It’s a yearly unconference in a small suburb, Zeuthen, at a nice hotel right at a lake. The weather was sunny and many of the session where held outside. …