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Agile as the Promised Land
Last week our article about the five Agile organizational change themes was published in the Dutch IT Management magazine (TITM). A must read for each executive accountable for successful Agile...
Read moreMy doctorate Thesis about Improving the Agility of service networks now availabl…
Many people ask me whether they can get an online copy of my doctorate thesis. The thesis is available via the press article about my defense at the Vrije Universiteit...
Read moreIntroduction to the Responsive Enterprise
Almost daily I receive questions about The Responsive Enterprises, such as Google. My latest blog links to more information the topic.
Read moreDigital Transformation requires flexible IT
Last week our article about the Digital Revolution and Agle 5+1 was published in the Dutch magazine 'Information'. Herewith the link to the electronic version of the article.
Read moreTalk at Agile Consortium 25 March 2015
The Agile Consortium is the Agile knowledge platform for organizations and professionals, with international linkages such as England and Switzerland. On the event of 25 of March I joined the Agile...
Read moreAgile 5+1 method: implement Agility at scale
Achieving large scale Agility is perceived difficult by many organizations. Agility gets impeded when Agile teams needs to collaborate. As strategic As Agile consultant I regularly receive the question what...
Read moreHow Agile/Kanban helped us getting closer as a family
Sometime ago I watched a movie about Agile programming for families at TED.com. That talk inspired me. Since we embrace new ideas as family, we decided to introduce a Kanban in...
Read moreHow to manage a set of codependent Agile teams?
We recently performed an experiment at a large multinational bank to reduce the delivery time of new features that are delivered by a set of codependent Scrum teams that supports. We...
Read morePresentation in Cyprus about collaborating Agile teams
In June 2014 I I presented the results of our latest case study to our colleagues at the Fifth International Conference of Software Business, in Cyprus.
Read moreWhat are six collaboration related issues in scaled Agile settings?
Do you want to know how to solve collaboration issues between Scrum teams? Studying collaboration issues at a numbe of large IT service providers revealed six blocking issues. Alleviating these...
Read moreReducing the feature delivery time of a set of codependent Agile teams (evidence…
In 2013 we performed an experiment at a large multinational institute to reduce the feature delivery time of a set of codependent Agile teams. We achieved a significant reduction by...
Read moreHow to get less IT failures at large IT providers (evidence)
Blog article summarizing an experiment in the banking industry showing that Agile principles in a group of interdependent teams drastically improves IT incident handling.
Read moreInformation sharing to minimize the negative impact of IT failures
A few weeks ago we went grocery shopping at the Albert Heijn. When entering the Albert Heijn we witnessed empty shelves due to a computer failure. Great!
Read morePresenting my vision about information sharing at Mensura conference
In October 2013 I presented my research about information sharing within an IT service network to a group of leading scientists. The paper was presented at the 23nd International Workshop on...
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