In previous posts I have stated that managers must form a management team. Let me explain today, why and how. The easy and almost obvious answer to ‘why’ is that a good team achieves more than the achievement of the sum of its parts. By that logic, a management team should achieve more than the … weiterlesen →
Author Archives: Christof Braun
Finding the right team
Who belongs in which team? What is the best size? Which roles need to be present in a team? How do we decide which team does what? These questions (and more) come up again and again when discussing larger agile organizations working on multiple projects or products. And it is one of the manager’s key … weiterlesen →
Manager in a Networked Organization
In my previous posts I have shown how to describe organization structures in a way different from the typical hierarchical line management top-down tree. Because communication is at the heart of any organization that wants to be agile, with self-organizing teams and an innovation culture, the communication paths are the primary feature of the organization … weiterlesen →
Communities are Communication Bridges
Most management experts nowadays agree that the management practice of command & control is not appropriate for organizations were the employees are knowledge workers that need significant cognitive skills and a creative spirit to do their jobs. I wholeheartedly agree with them. We know about different styles of management that foster creativity and productive cognitive … weiterlesen →
Agile and Organizational Structures
Putting up a Kanban board or holding daily Scrum meetings does not make an agile organization. Neither does the adherence to all the Scrum or Kanban – or whatever else – rules. You may even succeed in becoming really agile on a micro basis in your organization: The teams get a beautifully groomed backlog from … weiterlesen →
Mit Kanban kann man alles machen – auch vieles falsch
Letztens besuchten wir beim Treffen einer User Group eine Media- und Software-Agentur, die uns ihre Nutzung von agilen Methoden zeigte. Nicht überraschend war die Geschichte, die wir schon oft gehört haben: Ein großes Projekt mit großem Team, langer Laufzeit und mehreren beteiligten Firmen war in Probleme geraten. Man entscheidet sich für Scrum und alles wird … weiterlesen →