Here is a video of Simon Roberts’ talk “Designing High-Performance into our Organisations: What can ScrumMasters, managers and other leaders do to help every team to excel?” from Optional Conference 2015, Budapest, Hungary. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhfZxMP0yhM&start=43]
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Webinar on Implementing Radical Management
On 15 April 2015, Peter Stevens and Simon Roberts were honoured to take part in a webinar on Radical Management as part of Scrum Alliance’s program of webinars supporting the Learning Consortium. The webinar covered: Radical Management and its five main shifts Transforming organization strategy from shareholder value to something more sustainable (including customer delight) Experiences… Continue reading Webinar on Implementing Radical Management
Radical Management in Practice
Many organizations are based on a hierarchical bureaucracy with managers who practice command and control. This approach is incompatible with much twenty-first century work, which is knowledge based and best carried out in self-organized teams. Building on Steve Denning’s “Radical Management”, this presentation provides guidance on what managers should do to best support the work… Continue reading Radical Management in Practice
The Retrospective Prime Directive
Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand. and in German: Egal was wir heute herausfinden, wir wissen und glauben ernsthaft, dass jeder sein bestes gegeben… Continue reading The Retrospective Prime Directive
Next Steps for the Stoos Movement
In little more than a year the Stoos movement has grown from the initial four founders, to the twenty-one present at the Stoos meeting and now to a network of thousands worldwide. But little has changed in how most organisations are run. Even where approaches such as Scrum or Kanban have been introduced at department… Continue reading Next Steps for the Stoos Movement
Agile Liftoff Workshop at Agile Development Practices Potsdam
Birgit and I held a workshop at Agile Development Practices in Potsdam. Here is our presentation:
Presentation at Droidcon Berlin on Scrum for Startups
The slides from my presentation in the startup track at Droidcon Berlin 2013 are here: Combining Disciplined Execution with Continuous Innovation
Enterprise Scrum Transitions EBook
My ebook “Enterprise Scrum Transitions” (with Stefan Roock), based on our well received session at the Barcelona Scrum Gathering, is available here: http://enterprisescrum.de It’s a free download and available in mobi, epub and pdf formats so all leading readers are supported.
10 Mistakes that (some) Managers Make
1. Putting Most of their Energy Into Avoiding Getting Blamed The main objective for some managers is to avoid getting blamed for a problem. The result is that they reduce transparency and that decision makers are not able to make rational decisions because the information that they get is misleading. This is a deep cultural… Continue reading 10 Mistakes that (some) Managers Make
Using the Cartoon Story Board Technique in Retrospectives
Cartoon Story Board (also called Comic Story Board) is one of my favourite creativity techniques and it can be used to good effect in retrospectives. I have used it in the “setting the stage” phase of retrospectives to help a team to frame the key question to be tackled during the retrospective, and for helping… Continue reading Using the Cartoon Story Board Technique in Retrospectives