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Designing an agile Digital Enterprise
My Mission at the End of a Fascinating Project At the end of a compelling project, my client gave me a task. I needed to train and certify a dozen managers and trainers. The…
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AO Projects with Scrum X
Speaking about projects in an agile context is always funny. In January, I had a conversation with my friends Mike and Michael in Vienna, and when addressed the point of project management, they began…
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AO Programs
Programs are a collection of projects and support activities supporting a single significant initiative. In an agile and empirical manner, you never start a program as such. You start with a project that once…
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Apple trees
While working with my teams, I was looking for a simple solution visualising the amount of work. My idea was to move out of the traditional software tools compiling a never-ending list of requirements…
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The AO process
Initially Hoshin Kanri has been influenced by Deming PDCA´s and Drucker´s management by objective. The Agile way of doing it is to assume that the first strategy is maybe wrong and it will be…
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Roles in AO
In AO, the thesis is that the focus is given to the role and not function or job (Structure). You will have three principal characters: Purpose keepers, Organization keepers and agents.
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The AO (agile organizations) principle
The AO phases are simple achievalbe milestones for a coherent agile change.
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Organization over structure
The purpose of “Structure” is different than for “Organization”. “Structure” is feeding itself by enforcing the robustness of the enterprise. That idea was valid from an “ordered” point of view for a business model…
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Simples rules applied to scrum and agile
A decade ago, a Scrum Trainer called Krishan Mathis explained in a simple what agile means to him. Agile is “Inspect & Adapt”, treat people like adults, ask the team and delivery each time.…
AO – Adaptive Organizations 