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Product Owner Notebook
This publications aims to explore the ins and outs of the role of the product owner in digital innovation and transformation. Nothing that I write is known to be true. It’s a reflection on what I have noticed — not facts so much as thoughts.
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Agile is a vessel to navigate the chaos of creativity
Agile is a vessel to navigate the chaos of creativity
Dennis Hambeukers
Oct 6
A holistic product owner model
A holistic product owner model
“A product owner should only concern himself with the what and stay far away from the technology, the how.” That is what I heard this week…
Dennis Hambeukers
Jun 30
Let’s go for half-assed Agile!
Let’s go for half-assed Agile!
A colleague pointed met to the Half Arsed Agile Manifesto this week. According to the footer, it was cobbled together by Kerry Buckley one…
Dennis Hambeukers
Jun 14
Where to start if you want to organize yourself based on Agile ways of working?
Where to start if you want to organize yourself based on Agile ways of working?
I think we need a new name for this. To me, Agile is no longer just a way of working to achieve more agility. In my opinion it never was…
Dennis Hambeukers
Mar 16
Agile is a way to organize authority
Agile is a way to organize authority
Agile started out in the Agile Manifesto. That was written by software developers to create a new way of working. That manifested in ways…
Dennis Hambeukers
Mar 11
The big value of Agile ways of working
The big value of Agile ways of working
For about 8 years, I believed that Agile was only valuable in innovation, in context with a lot of uncertainty and fast moving…
Dennis Hambeukers
Mar 8
Courage and creativity
Courage and creativity
For the preface to a book about recipes of the restaurant Noma, René Redzepi asked Metallica’s drummer Lars Ulrich to write some words on…
Dennis Hambeukers
Jan 1
Leadership is the big gaping hole in the Agile Manifesto
Leadership is the big gaping hole in the Agile Manifesto
From time to time, people will declare Agile dead. On December 1st, Cliff Berg declared Agile dead in a viral post on LinkedIn. Personally…
Dennis Hambeukers
Dec 12, 2023
The pyramid of Lencioni and embracing the dark side of leadership
The pyramid of Lencioni and embracing the dark side of leadership
Dennis Hambeukers
Dec 9, 2023
The Tao of leadership and Dunning-Kruger
The Tao of leadership and Dunning-Kruger
Join me on a journey of exploring the profound wisdom of leadership through the lens of Taoism connected to the Dunning-Kruger effect. In…
Dennis Hambeukers
Dec 1, 2023
The Tao of Agile
The Tao of Agile
The Tao Te Ching, the book by Lao Tzu that is the foundation of Taoism, starts by stating that the Tao that can be spoken of is not the…
Dennis Hambeukers
Nov 25, 2023
How good design enhances agility (Agile principle #9)
How good design enhances agility (Agile principle #9)
Agile principle number nine states that continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility. Let’s look at the…
Dennis Hambeukers
Nov 20, 2023
The complex relationship between the systems we design and the value they create
The complex relationship between the systems we design and the value they create
The relationship between the products we design and the value they create is a complex interplay between various factors. Understanding…
Dennis Hambeukers
Nov 18, 2023
What does organizing around value mean?
What does organizing around value mean?
Organizing around value means structuring and arranging processes, teams, or activities within an organization based on the value they…
Dennis Hambeukers
Nov 18, 2023
Natural leadership based on shamanic principles
Natural leadership based on shamanic principles
The goal of leadership is the empowerment of others. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more…
Dennis Hambeukers
Oct 22, 2023
On delegating authority
On delegating authority
I am a huge fan of the Product Owner model of leadership. I don’t know exactly why, it just resonated with me from the moment I discovered…
Dennis Hambeukers
Jul 16, 2023
Agility and predictability — the pillars of Agile
Agility and predictability — the pillars of Agile
As I see it, Agile is about people and interactions and not about processes and tools. This is the first line of the Agile Manifesto and…
Dennis Hambeukers
Jun 10, 2023
Good design is functional, great design tells a story
Good design is functional, great design tells a story
There is one thing that separates great design from good design and that is the story the design tells. There are different levels of…
Dennis Hambeukers
Jun 6, 2023
A rookie mistake writing a user story
A rookie mistake writing a user story
Writing a good user story is a delicate art. It should be clear, inspiring, leave enough room for creativity, and embody the product…
Dennis Hambeukers
May 30, 2023
Authority is given (and can be taken back at any time)
Authority is given (and can be taken back at any time)
One thing I didn’t understand until recently about how we organize ourselves in organizations is that authority is given. Authority is…
Dennis Hambeukers
Apr 23, 2023
ChatGPT doesn’t know anything but neither do I
ChatGPT doesn’t know anything but neither do I
I just read this nice piece about ChatGPT by Jan Scholtes. Very insightful piece with a couple of eye openers for me on how ChatGPT works…
Dennis Hambeukers
Feb 23, 2023
The role of a product owner in digital transformation
The role of a product owner in digital transformation
The journey of a product owner with a product or service, is about gradually peeling the union of IT and organizational change. The product…
Dennis Hambeukers
Feb 19, 2023
The one thing that is missing from design thinking is ownership
The one thing that is missing from design thinking is ownership
The current state of design thinking might seem gloomy. There is a lot of criticism and lots of things have gone wrong. But there are so…
Dennis Hambeukers
Feb 12, 2023
What is anthroposophy and how can we use it to humanize the way of working in organizations?
What is anthroposophy and how can we use it to humanize the way of working in organizations?
There are a number of ways that anthroposophy can be integrated into business. One way is to use it as a way to rethink the way we work…
Dennis Hambeukers
Feb 7, 2023
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