I was very much looking forward to this book as it was perfect timing for me, planning a big reteaming but stuck and solely focused on the Team topologies concept. But i was to be disappointed as it brought nothing new to the table except branding the different patterns. Or as Helfand says Dynamic Reteaming […]
How Agile can learn from Top Gun
In my work as an agile coach and Scrum Master I have found there is a big gap between these both roles. Seldom they collaborate and often they serve their own customers without alignment. I will here introduce a new way of working with Agile/Lean in a medium/big organization decoupling the standard approach with a […]
Toxic company #1
I got a call from a friend I had been working with previously in a consulting company. The year is 2009. My friend was a project manager and wanted me to join this online gaming company with roots in offline gaming. At that point I was running my own betting service but without any profit […]
The sect
Having introduced Psychological Safety as a cornerstone for companies, this company was trickier. Psychological Safety was removed from the original Agile transformation agenda for some reason, but I introduced it as a channel in MS Teams, where the discussion started. I helped HR with workshops on the topic, hoping they would be the messenger in […]
My top 3 challenges for Psychological safety
If I should sum up the three biggest challenges for Psychological Safety it would be LCD – Leadership, Culture and DNA – all previously covered in the book, here emphasised. But these three are not the root cause for Psychological UNsafety. There is someone accountable for Psychological Safety, can you spot who it is? I […]
Agiles uppgång och fall – en obduktion
Ser tillbaka i mina anteckningar från den gamla goda tiden när Janlén, Kniberg, Hjelm, Nöteberg, Park, Bini och de andra agila pionjärena var aktiva och frågvisa och fortfarande hade skit under naglarna. Vi slängde rätt hård käft på maillistan Agile Sweden emellanåt och Jocke Holm som listmaster fick gå emellan när jag gick för hårt […]
Functional stupidity
Mats Alvesson is a Swedish professor at Lund University who has succeeded in adding a term to the Swedish Academy’s dictionary SAOL – Functional Stupidity. His definition is “the inability and/or unwillingness to use cognitive and reflective abilities in anything other than narrow and circumspect ways. It involves a lack of reflexivity, a disinclination to […]
Impression management
Goffman’s (1959) Impression Management theory is one of the best-known theories of identity performance. Goffman said that individuals present themselves based on the perceived audience from scene to scene, and our identity presentations are designed and prepared behind these scenes. In short, you try hard to meet the audience’s expectations in order to melt in […]
Passion och diskussion
Bryr du dig om ditt företag? Amerikanska studier säger att 80% av arbetarna i USA ”går till jobbet” endast. De är inte engagerade i sitt företag. 18% av dessa motarbetar aktivt all förändring. Inom idrotten är det vanligt med matchintervjuer där man som förlorande lag småler åt eländet med plattityder som att komma tillbaka nästa […]
Managers – guilty of unsafety
I did quick research of the available leadership training on the internet, and after discussions with these training companies, I found that none of them has Psychological Safety on the agenda. Psychological Safety is implicitly covered in topics like feedback, participation, soft skills etc, but cannot be found anywhere in the training catalogues, or explicitly […]