Agile methods or “Where is the problem?
I will try to describe a problem around the topic of "agile methods" from my own perspective, because I think it is relevant. And here we go: Recently I discovered an answer from Ron Jeffries (XP) on Twitter about about the (un)popular SAFe: Agile methods like SAFe...
My Kanban is broken: Why the bottleneck is not (always) where we believe
With our intuitions we are often wrong. Here is a small case from the bottleneck theory, where I myself felt this way again.
Can marketing also work agile?
Are marketing departments also affected by increasing systemic complexity?
Teambuilding meets agility
At the beginning of the year, the Komplexitäters where in Warsaw for two days. A major global corporation organized its annual strategic management meeting with over 120 C-levels from all over the world and asked us to provide a one-day workshop to give them a first...
What Yellow Vests in France have to do with complexity and how Prof. Dr. Peter Kruse may help President Emmanuel Macron?
At the beginning of November, the system "French society" spontaneously began to flare up, causing great uproar throughout the country. The movement of the "yellow vests" (les gilets jaunes) can be seen as an expected but unpredictable behaviour of a complex and...
Agility in the Bundestag: Angela Merkel goes full #Agile
What can be found on Twitter… When the German Chancellor explains and defends the agile approach in the Bundestag, it feels a bit like Christmas. After all, the Komplexitäters very strongly believe that the change in the world affects everyone and is not just a matter...
BOE 2019 – Interview: Agility meets event industry
The Komplexitäters are invited to give our keynote speech at the BOE 2019 fair. On 16 January at 14:00 o the topic will be "Agile, but at any price?" at the CAREER HUB. We have been asked to take part in an interview prior to this event. Of course we are happy to do...
True Story: Project management and the trap of complexity
In August 2018, a colleague from our organisation asked us whether it was common practice in IT to invest a lot of time in project plans for projects that were not implemented after all. Here is the answer of a Komplexitäter: Welcome to the trap of complexity. From my...
MVP approach in trial of practice – komplexitaeter.de
MVP - Minimum Viable Product - is an exciting approach that dramatically increases the chance of rapid learning in product development while at the same time drastically reducing the chance of absolute failure. In this article I describe how we apply this approach to...
