Hugo MesserMetaverse and/or Cop26?We humans are fond of progress; of improving our circumstances; making lives better. This week there’s 2 ‘big things’ happening: Facebook…Nov 2, 2021Nov 2, 2021
Hugo MesserWinning the Stoic Test: How to Stay Positive during PandemicThe past 20 years I’ve studied Stoicism and Buddhism (the stuff they don’t teach you at school). One interesting perspective I recently…Jul 24, 2021Jul 24, 2021
Hugo MesserThe Top 3 Challenges for Agile Adoption in IndonesiaLast week at our Agile Impact 2018 conference, I ran a workshop about the top challenges for adopting agile in Indonesia. I asked the…Oct 5, 2018Oct 5, 2018
Hugo MesserWhy Enterprises Need to Think Like StartupsThe past 3 years, I have used the word ‘Agile’ so often that it sometimes makes me want to stop using the word. Everyone talks about…Aug 21, 20181Aug 21, 20181
Hugo MesserThe Paradox of Agile Leadership: Doing Versus Being AgileI’ve lately been doing many leadership session with leadership teams in Indonesia. Usually such session is a ‘first step’ in creating…Jul 11, 2018Jul 11, 2018
Hugo MesserThe Power of Self Managed TeamsMy mother often tells me a story from my youth. When I was a couple years old, in kindergarten, I had to close my jacket. Somehow I figured…Dec 20, 2017Dec 20, 2017
Hugo MesserWhy Scrum Is Great AND Limiting?Scrum brought agile mainstream. The agile manifesto may have remained obscure if scrum hadn’t come about. Scrum translates the message of…Dec 11, 2017Dec 11, 2017
Hugo MesserThe Art of Being a Scrum MasterOne of the questions I hear most often in the scrum community is ‘what makes a good scrum master‘. The answer can take hours of debate. I…Oct 10, 20171Oct 10, 20171
Hugo MesserWhy we can’t become agileMost modern organizations are built on a basic blueprint that matured in the early 1900s and hasn’t changed much since. This industrial-age…Oct 2, 2017Oct 2, 2017
Hugo MesserHow phones are messing up our livesYou wake up and the first thing you do is switch it on. You walk around carrying it in your pocket and it feels like a magnet. You start…Sep 21, 2017Sep 21, 2017