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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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Four layers of design
Four layers of design
Design is more than aesthetics, functionality, or strategy — it’s a way of solving problems and shaping the world. In my last essay, I…
Dennis Hambeukers
Dec 8
The real Double Diamond process of design
The real Double Diamond process of design
The Double Diamond model is often hailed as the gold standard for depicting the design process. Its simplicity and clarity make it an…
Dennis Hambeukers
Dec 7
What is the difference between design and strategic design?
What is the difference between design and strategic design?
Strategic design is a multidisciplinary approach to design that goes beyond aesthetics and functionality to align design efforts with…
Dennis Hambeukers
Dec 2
Good leadership is creating a good life at work
Good leadership is creating a good life at work
Dennis Hambeukers
Dec 2
Strategy is still the cornerstone of Agile and SAFe
Strategy is still the cornerstone of Agile and SAFe
At the end of the day, any way you organize the development of software comes down to leadership, not the tools you use. Lately I see more…
Dennis Hambeukers
Nov 28
The difference between collaboration and co-creation
The difference between collaboration and co-creation
People can work together in two distinct ways: collaboration and co-creation. The difference is crucial when trying to understand the core…
Dennis Hambeukers
Nov 2
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
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