Hiring: Why diversity is an ill-defined goal for your organization
2020-08-22
Don’t follow the crazy trend of making workplace diversity a hiring goal. Provide equal opportunities instead, and enjoy the results of a talent harvest both ethical and profitable.
Scrum Events Cheat Sheets Updated
2020-01-30
Downloadable PDF cheat sheets you can use to facilitate the meetings of Scrum: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
Agile decisions are American-style decisions
2019-09-24
European executives! It’s time to rethink what you consider to be a “decision” if you want to act agile.
Predator organizations 2/2
2019-09-09
What makes the network of your employees work as the brain of a hunting predator?
Win big with consultants
2019-07-24
External consultants sometimes save whole companies, but sometimes just waste precious time and money. Here’s how you can profit the most from using external consulting services.
Obsessed with planning: Why Agile hurts
2019-06-26
Agile hurts just like physics: They both need you to value reality more than your own plans, preferences and self-image of cleverness.
About the Author
Jan Farkas is the co-owner of Halkeon Agile Consulting, a specialized consulting firm focused on innovation and agility. He has spent more than 16 years in a wide variety of highly innovative projects in engineering, software development and research. As an accomplished consultant, trainer and coach, he worked in corporate, startup and government environments.
Jan holds master’s degrees in physics and computer science and a doctoral degree in astrophysics. He lives with his family in Zurich, Switzerland.
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