"Complexity responded to competence, not authority." -- Steve Denning [1] [1] Steve Denning, Is Agile just another management fad? Forbes 2015-06-22; Link...
Executive summary: The key to motivating your knowledge workers is to provide them a context, the meaning for their efforts. [caption id="attachment_1305" align="alignnone" width="725"] We are not paid to have fun. Artwork by my son, Lorant Farkas (9)[/caption] I remember a meeting I attended as an engineer...
Executive summary: Instead of "work-life balance", executives should focus on creating great places to work. The expression "work-life balance" has always disturbed me. The subtle link it establishes between work and being dead is just demoralizing. It suggests to accept that work belongs to the dark...
Executive summary: "Many say that Scrum is simple and easy. But if you can't do it, it's not simple and easy." -- Jeff Sutherland I've got quite a few nice quotes from Jeff Sutherland (here's an example), but this one is my personal favorite. It's the perfect illustration...
"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice." -- William James, philosopher, psychologist, the "Father of American psychology"...
"You can hire good people and let them work, or you can hire cheap people and tell them what they have to do." -- Warren Buffett...
"You don't need to convince executives to make their organizations agile. Let their competitors convince them!" -- Dr. Jeff Sutherland, Co-creator of Scrum, Founder of Scrum Inc. I once asked Jeff Sutherland how he convinces executives that it's worth to turn their companies agile. This is...