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A Kind of Magic

A Kind of Magic

Roger Meddows Taylor probably didn’t know anything about magical moments in Agile development when he wrote the following lines of the famous Queen song ”A Kind of Magic” back in the mid 80s:
One dream, one …

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Stop playing the re-estimation game and focus on the real problems

Stop playing the re-estimation game and focus on the real problems

I recently visited a large and prestigious project. The project had already experiences massive overruns on initial estimates and was trying to grasp the situation by re-estimating the remaining work.
Re-estimating a project as such is …

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2012 Personal Retrospective: The Year I Realized Two Old Dreams

2012 Personal Retrospective: The Year I Realized Two Old Dreams

In 2012 I was fortunate enough to realized two dreams I’ve had for more than twenty years each. Combined with no real setbacks during the past twelve months, 2012 will therefore go down as a …

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Agile Project Management Team Meetings (republished)

Agile Project Management Team Meetings (republished)

I am fascinated by application of Agile principles to non software development disciplines. I find myself doing it constantly and often with great success. This post is about how we revitalized our project management team …

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Be Careful Combining PRINCE2 and Agile

Be Careful Combining PRINCE2 and Agile

From time to time, I hear people argue that it’s fairly easy to combine PRINCE2 and Agile (particularly Scrum) and by doing it you get the best of both worlds. The most common approach I …

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Recommended Reading: on Meta-Practices, Technical Debt, Sustainable Engineering Practices and a little bonus at the end

Recommended Reading: on Meta-Practices, Technical Debt, Sustainable Engineering Practices and a little bonus at the end

Having read another gazillion (almost) blog posts since my last Recommended Reading post, it’s time to share some of my favourites with you. My …

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Leadership Teams Need Balance

Leadership Teams Need Balance

In my recent post on what it takes to be a great leader, I made the case, that an important leadership skill is …

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My Reflections on the First Ever Agile Coach Camp Denmark

My Reflections on the First Ever Agile Coach Camp Denmark

48 hours ago we closed the first ever Agile Coach Camp in Denmark and my brain is still trying to compute all the inspiration I got during the three days I spend with 32 other …

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My CxO Encourage Me to Invest in Myself

My CxO Encourage Me to Invest in Myself

One of the benefits of being an independent consultant is that I’m now my own CFO, COO, CEO, UFO… and I don´t have to ask anyone about competence development budgets. On the other hand, since …

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Invest in Employees Who Invest in Themselves

Invest in Employees Who Invest in Themselves

Reading Johanna Rothman’s post titled ”Management Myth #9: We Have No Time for Training” on Stickyminds.com it made me think about my own approach to competence development, both as a Manager and as an …

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