So I ran into some bad luck with choice of sessions and I also ended up not getting in to a few others. But here’s a brief summary of what I did manage to see. What: Work Hacking away from business as usual Who: Ayelet Baron, Rawn Shah I listened in to this talk only […]
What: Workplace distractions: A new focus on focus Who: Ben Waber (Sociometrics), Janet Pogue (architecture), Gloria Mark (informatics), Rachel Silver (moderator) We are all pretty aware of the problems that task switching and context switching can cause. It’s one of the identified Lean “wastes” of knowledge work, and we who go to war on this […]
Coherent with my interest in “the future of work”, I will try to attend as many sessions here at SXSW as possible (there’s free beer everywhere, you know) that deal with the “how” of product development, innovation and work. I argue that these aspects of how we do what we do critically impact our capability […]
Last week I had the pleasure to attend the third physical Stockholm Stoos meet up. For those of you who don’t know what Stoos is, you can read up here. The topic of the evening was AgileHR, which I have touched upon previously, and the insightful Peter Antman from Crisp talked around a selection of slides […]
This is a follow up on a previous post where I talked a bit about how the way our work works is inspired by Lean principles. In this post we shall look into the concept of “Muda” i.e “Waste” and how we address this in our shop. Ten sources of waste: 1. Extra features What […]
When we look into the various ideas and concepts emanating out of the Toyota Way, the Toyota Production System (TPS) and all of the various Lean incarnations, we find that there are quite a set of principles and ideas to choose from, as various people and industries translate these concepts in order to adapt to […]
So, if you’re a reader of this blog you might have seen me mention satisficing a number of times. This is a concept worth exploring deeper, and when we do, we’ll find ourselves in the midst of fascinating concepts such as bounded rationality, behavioral economics and decision making. Decision making, as a field of study […]
There are some meetings that exist to coordinate efforts and information. Other meetings live to make decisions. A third meeting might be of an explorative nature. Then there’s the sad little meeting, who is so confused and lonely. The meeting that is all, or none, of the above. There’s a lot to be said about […]
Recently, I had the great opportunity to help with some mentoring and coaching for aspiring leaders at Hyper Island. The students in question find themselves in Team Lead roles, and we spent two nights discussing their concerns, challenges, questions and ideas concerning leadership, team work, concept development and production. And so yesterday, I headed of […]
This is part five in a series of blogposts where we look into a re-design of a Product Development Process. In the first part we talked about how we can think about value, in the second post we discussed choosing value, in the third part we looked into how we explore value, in the fourth […]
This is part four in a series of blogposts where we look into a re-design of a Product Development Process. In the first part we talked about how we can think about value, in the second post we discussed choosing value , in the third part we looked into how we explore value, and in […]
You might be wondering why I spend so much time thinking and writing about how we as an organisation make the choices we make. The reason is very straightforward: If we don’t make reasonable choices regarding how we spend our energy and capacity, then nothing else will matter. As an Agile Coach, I can spend […]
This is part three in a series of blogposts where we look into a re-design of a Product Development Process. In the first part we talked about how we can think about value, in the second post we discussed choosing value. In this post, we will look into why we choose to spend time exploring value. […]
This is part two in a series of blogposts where we look into a re-design of a Product Development Process. In the first part we talked about how we can think about value. In this post, we will spend some time thinking about how we can choose which value we want to explore first. 1. […]
Yesterday I attended the Agile HR Sweden conference here in Stockholm. The overarching theme for the conference, arranged by Green Bullet Solutions , was “How can we together create better and more agile organizations”. The conference featured well renowned speakers such as Jurgen Appelo, author of Management 3.0 and How to change the world, and Bjarte Bogsnes, author […]
