Insights Archive
All published English LEANability insights from 2019.
What gets done at which Flight Level and what should be happening at that flight level? We encounter this question over and over. This is partly due to how we use terms like “strategy”, “strategy operationalization”, end-to-end coordination, etc. There is nothing worse than creating confusion by using inconsistent and undefined terms. This article will
Read articleIn this episode I talk with Raphael Montenegro about Flight Levels in Brazil.
Read articleIn this episode I talk with Rodrigo Yoshima about leadership and uncertainty.
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We are currently in the process of bringing Rethinking Agile to the audio world. We have already pre-selected three possible voices and want your help by selecting the final one. Please listen to the samples below and select one of the speakers in the form and send us what you think! If you would
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I have often thought about what Shu-Ha-Ri means in terms of agility. I also often hear that Flight Levels are a Ri thing. I’m not so sure about that, so I try to put my thoughts into words. Shu-Ha-Ri is a cool thing and I can well imagine that it works in many areas when
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It happened after all – there is an electronic version of the book Rethinking Agile. We have long resisted publishing an ebook because we believe that the print version is simply unbeatable. Rethinking Agile is a fully illustrated book that lives from the beautiful illustrations of Matthias Seifert and the excellent layout by Mario Simon-Horr.
Read articleI really liked the episode “Agile at Scale – Reality is complex, don’t expect simple solutions” of the bol.com Techlab Podcast. Peter Brouwers discusses with Jorien Brangert and Hessel de Gelder about their 10-year journey to make the company agile. At the start there were seven Scrum teams and today 150 teams work with each
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TWiG – The WiP Game is now available in 9 languages! You can now download a Spanish and a Thai Version. We are really happy that our community is very much proactive in translating TWiG. This time our thanks go to Primitivo Cachero Viejo for the translation into Spanish, Kamon Treetampinij und Kulawat Wongsaroj for
Read articleToday I talk to the physics and chemistry teacher Willy Weijnands about how he uses Scrum in his school lessons. You can get more infos about Willy’s work at eduscrum.com
Read articleBeing the first one is – in many cases – really nice. In this case it is also a big honor: Paul Klipp and Justyna Pindel have brought the “Agile Book Club” into being. Each month, Paul and Justyna discuss a book that focuses on agile topics. They talk about the most important messages of
Read articleI know Peter Hundermark already since 2012 and we were again and again in exchange about many different topics. This time we met in Barcelona and we thought we’d just let the camera run along during a conversation. The result was a video about Kanban, Scrum, coaches, trainers, local optimization etc… Just take a
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The flight levels are not wallpaper that you can simply stick over any company and everything will be fine. Recently I was a guest in the video podcast of Mathias Tölken, who, together with his business partner, specialized in the IT management of small and medium-sized companies and founded the eXuviate network. Many SMEs are
Read articleRecently, as I was lying at the pool high above Bangkok with 10 minutes and nothing to do, I summarized the history of Flight Levels in a Twitter thread. For me, it was a good exercise to see where I currently stand with my ideas. For you, this review might help you understand the model
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It strikes me that it is totally important for most companies that their staff is working. “Yes, I’m working on it” is the answer you want to hear. To be honest, I would get totally worried if I heard from people all the time that they were “working on it”. Working is far too expensive!
Read articleIn this episode I talk to Kulawat Wongsaroj about Flight Levels in Thailand. More and more organizations are adopting Flight Levels in Thailand and there are good reasons for it: Flight Levels is not yet another agile scaling framework but it rather acts as a kind of glue that holds the various agile areas together
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Since my new book Rethinking Agile was published, readers have been posting excerpts from it many times. I have noticed that many readers are particularly interested in the topic of cross-functionality. Like the Spotify model, cross-functional teams belong to the inventory of the agile reliquary shrine: their existence is usually worshiped without reflection, but often
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TWiG adds another language to its portfolio: Portuguese. Many thanks to Wellington Tonquelski Ferreira and Wilhelm Meier for the translation! We also fixed some minor errors in the Italien version. So don’t wait and download it from the TWiG-Page!
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First of all, the clocks tick differently in Bangkok – the jet lag has really got to me this time. Apart from that, I was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm I experienced during two Flight Level classes, a top management workshop, an Applying Kanban training and a talk in 12 days Bangkok. My two Flight Level
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