Last week I was chanting … “We need: Freestylers!” “We need people that can use any technique, any mindset, any approach at the right time.” One concern was raised by Craig Brown: “Freestyling is for experts. Beginners need guides.” or, as Akshay put it: “Expert chefs can freestyle. Normal people need recipes.” But how do …
Just came back from the first day at the PMI EMEA Congress here in Amsterdam. Love it! Met some great people like Dave Prior, the author of the Drunken PM blog and the ITT SIG Podcast, and a big agile fan. Great day for him. On this first day of the conference a lot of …
Ants don’t need central control to get the work coordinated. They use a simple and effective way to communicate and make individual decisions based upon the information. Ants are hardwired to work like this. Nature provided them all with the same set of rules in their body. Every leg has a natural tattoo describing how …
On his blog Noop.nl, Jurgen Appelo is making a strong case for adapting your software development approach according to the circumstances. He recently wondered why being agile is not about being adaptable and doing whatever it takes to make your project a long-lasting success any more. Jurgen introduced Scrum into his organization. He didn’t follow …
Every element of a project method has a reason. If you know the reason, you know when to apply or use this method component. To explain this, I created a small sample using Scrum, and I turn to some global observations about it. I use the word globalĀ as I will not go into every …