My Insights.
“When will the stuff be done?” A letter to the manager.
It is time to dismantle the myth of estimating and predicting the future. Here are 15 questions that will make you reconsider your requests to predict the future.
Organisational Design Practices
Organisational design is not just drawing up org charts and writing up processes, it is about constantly readjusting the blueprint that turns an organisation’s vision into reality.
Practices for greater team efficiency (Part 2)
This post summarises recipes for team efficiency through the ways of working related to everyday work execution, continuous improvement and building trust.
Practices for greater team efficiency (Part 1)
This post summarises some of the ways of working related to team autonomy and work planning practices that any team can adopt to increase their drive and efficiency.
Creating alignment in an organisation
This post summarises specific techniques that can be used to create alignment inside the teams and improve alignment between the teams.
How to drive product strategy and prioritisation
How to drive product strategy and prioritisation Deciding on what to build next – what to prioritise – can mean life or death for a company.
Prioritised roadmap – all in one!
A quality product roadmap is possible. It is even better when combined together with a prioritisation framework. Marrying the Now-Next-Later road mapping with …
My experience in a fintech startup
Having witnessed three major Agile transformations in some of the most prominent Nordic banks – i.e. now knowing what NOT to do – Fidel API for me …
The Post-Pandemic World is More Agile
The values and principles enshrined in the Agile Manifesto 20 years ago have become more relevant during the global pandemic. We’re now actually more …
Enabling Agile Teams
Several organizational (anti)patterns may kill the efficiency of Agile teams. Management overhead, unclear ways to sponsor Agile teams, security constraints, and …
17 Benefits From Working in Agile
Empirical studies report 17 concrete benefits of working in Agile. This is a summary of concrete practices that help Agile teams to achieve …
The impact of Agile on profitability
How does working in Agile improve EBITDA efficiency and revenue growth? In this post, we explore how Agile methodologies can impact EBITDA efficiency…
How to build trust?
The absence of trust is one of the notorious fundamental dysfunctions in any team. And even though trust might seem an abstract thing …
Team lifecycle
The team’s development cycle was coined 60 years ago. It has 4 stages: forming, storming, norming, and performing. Each team goes through …
When to use Agile?
Now that you want to embark on a new project or build a new product – you may wonder:
– Should I learn to apply Agile ways of working?
Why do plans fail?
Why do things don’t go according to plan? Accurately predicting the future is almost impossible. That’s because we have an optimism bias …
“Can you deliver on date X, please?”
Manager: “We need [insert any software product] to be delivered on date X. Can you do it?”
The person who actually does the job: “Well…”
“We will deliver on X. Promise!”
People are inherently bad at estimating how much time is required to complete any kind of task. However, managers want some sort of outlook…
Agile frameworks and practices
With the complexity of products and services on the rise, it can be confusing to determine which Agile framework or method to use.