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More information and arguments will not make your decision making better

More information and arguments will not make your decision making better

We often assume that the key to making better decisions lies in gathering more information and building stronger arguments. This logic…
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Revisiting the UX pyramid: the power and foundations of great user experience

Revisiting the UX pyramid: the power and foundations of great user experience

User experience (UX) is often thought of as the sleek, intuitive interfaces we interact with daily, but there’s much more beneath the…
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Why do smart people do stupid stuff when they are in a corporate organization?

Why do smart people do stupid stuff when they are in a corporate organization?

Even the smartest individuals can be compromised by corporate dynamics. The system often dictates behavior more than individual…
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Leadership is not about your opinion

Leadership is not about your opinion

There is empowering leadership and disempowering leadership. Both have different ways of behaving that come from a different intention and…
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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…
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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…
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What is the difference between design and strategic design?

What is the difference between design and strategic design?

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Good leadership is creating a good life at work

Good leadership is creating a good life at work

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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…
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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…
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Agile is a vessel to navigate the chaos of creativity

Agile is a vessel to navigate the chaos of creativity

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The pyramid of Lencioni and embracing the dark side of leadership

The pyramid of Lencioni and embracing the dark side of leadership

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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