Thomas Koeppen Blog

I found a nice description from http://www.agileadvice.com/ : “A leader is a person who assists a group of people become a self-organizing, self-managing and self-sustaining team so that he/she no longer has to be a leader for that group.” This is an interesting definition in contrast to the wikipedia one: House defines “leadership” organizationally and [...]

Scott Ambler’s latest DDJ article covers a topic that is important for us: Pitching Agile to Senior Management – This inability to articulate to senior management why they should adopt agile techniques is ironic considering our focus on communication. Ambler’s experience is that management is often very willing to become more agile if you’re able [...]

There are many different processes that fit under the Agile umbrella and almost every company implements them differently. The idealistic phase is over, and teams are quite practical in the ways in which they adopt and adapt Agile processes. But many are overwhelmed by the tasks of selecting specific practices, fitting them with legacy processes, [...]

Nichts ist so beständig wie der Wandel. Veränderungen sind zum permanenten Begleiter im Wirtschaftsleben geworden: Strategiewechsel, Restrukturierungen, Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse und externe Einflüsse verlangen von Unternehmen, sich zu verändern – und von Mitarbeitern ebenfalls. Der Sozialwissenschaftler Lewin teilt einen erfolgreichen Veränderungsprozess in 3 Phasen ein: PHASE 1: Auftauen (unfreeze): Zu Beginn eines jeden Veränderungsprozesses müssen Widerstände gegen [...]