My findings from using the Liberating Structure 1-2-4-all in a Retrospective
My findings from doing a Liberating Structure as a retrospective for one of my awesome teams @dePersgroep Amsterdam. It describes 1-2-4-all and my adaption for a retro.
So, You Want to Read Something about Leadership?
This (overwhelming) curated list touching every aspect of leadership is very nice! It has collections of links to articles about all kind of Leadership and Management related articles. Very useful! Also, nice that it is a Github page, written in Markdown. https://github.com/LappleApple/awesome-leading-and-managing
A True Team!
Just 2 weeks ago, one team I work with, was finally ready to go out and have dinner and drinks. It was after a few weeks of struggles about processes, (a lack of )leadership and (unclear) demanding clients ánd a first successful release. During the night, their name changed from “team 1” into : MaxPinguins. […]
The Lean Startup
Finally got time for this one!
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
“Sprint offers a transformative formula for testing ideas that works whether you’re at a startup or a large organization. Within five days, you’ll move from idea to prototype to decision, saving you and your team countless hours and countless dollars. A must read for entrepreneurs of all stripes.” —Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup […]
Transforming from Scrummaster to ProductOwner
I’ve been working as a Scrum master since 2014. But during my work at Weeronline, I leaned a bit to Productmanagement. I also got certified as a productowner and discussed a lot of content next to process. When I was contacted to work as a freelance productowner for 5 months during a maternity leave at […]
What is Agile?
In this article Simon Powers asks : “What is Agile?” It’s a question that’s been asked (too) many times, but again, it’s in Agile’s nature to keep changing so the question will probably stay around for a while 🙂 The article is about this diagram: The bottom line is: Many organizations think that they’re agile […]
Why is Why the Most Powerful Word in the Workspace?
Dan Sloan aks to challenge everyone in our workspace with the (sometimes annoying) WHY-Question. Why is this question important? “Why” do we exist? “Why” are we working on these particular Features? What makes it essential for our Customers? “Why” do we use Scrum to optimize business outcomes? How can we make it better and more focused? “Why” […]
If You Want to be Understood – Listen
Although the example talk is extensive, the message of this article is clear: You should not expect to be able to greatly influence people if you do not spend any time with them, or if you do not hear what they have to say. If they do not talk by themselves, make them talk by […]
I Want to Be a Laurence
In this article, Simon Kneafsey describes his experience with a scrum master who was educated as an actor. Laurence worked only 2 years as a tester in a scrum team when he volunteered to become a scrum master. The only thing he could do, was learn to ask questions to make the team come up with solutions. Just because […]
Events I'm attending
Speaking about experimenting in Scrum
Tuesday 23 October, 2018 Amsterdam | ABN AMROSpeaking at an in company event
About me
I'm currently working as an 100% Scrum Master at de Persgroep, Amsterdam, to help the teams setting (and getting) their goals.