Yola & Co. are Gaming the Net Promoter Score…

It always amazes me to see people, especially management, abuse the concept of KPI’s, the Key Performance Indicators. Instead of using them as indicator as they suppose to be, management like to use them as target for the company to meet. As soon as we are using the KPI’s as target, you set people up to game the system and one of the biggest right now (that I know of) is done by car dealers, at least in The Netherlands.

Yola & Co. are unDone-Done…

One of the things I see happen a lot, is the inability of teams to deliver the product they build as a ‘shippable product‘. Due to this, there is a gap between what the Product Owner think is ‘acceptable‘ and what the development team is able to achieve to get things Done. So one of the questions I got is:”How do we make a Definition of Done? Do you have an example?” Beside that, Product Owners are wondering how they can get a feature-team while the rest of the company is organised as component-teams. Fortunately there is a way to cover both aspects with a simple visualisation practice. The two practices I’ll use in this blog are practices I learned from Bas Vodde during my LeSS Training. So lets dive into the case and answer the questions:

Yola & Co. are refining Black Stories…

It might sound weird to some of you but I play games with my teams during work. One of the most powerful games to use with a team is the Black Stories serie from author Holger Bösch and illustrator Bernhard Skopnik (The English version is also known as Dark Stories but those are from the same author and illustrator). There are good reasons to play games in the boss’ time so lets see how games are used. Fortunately Jordann Gross and Eddy Bruin introduced me into this at Agile Coach Camp Nederland 2015.

Yola & Co. and the Scrum board…(repost)

In 2015 I posted this comic for the first time and it was my first post on agileblog.nl I did. At that time I wrote it (I drew it actually 😉) because I had the discussion over and over again. Fun thing is, it is still a story of my life. This time again, the discussion starts with: “What kind of tooling are we going to use?”. So here it is, a repost with explanation this time.

Yola & Co. and the fifth Larman’s law…

Some weeks ago, I received an email from Craig Larman telling me he read my blog on Larman’s Laws and he pointed out to me there is a new fifth law (actually added as number four), being:

Yola & Co. are individuals and interact…

Face-to-face communication is one of the most important things in the Agile mindset in my opinion. This is why I don’t recognise the use of IM and e-mail as communication.

Yola & Co. and the Hackathon…

As explained before (Continu reading)

Yola & Co. and Larman’s Law…

As said in my previous post, we need to change the way we deal with teams. Especially with precious high performing teams. Therefore servant leadership is very necessary for an Agile implementation to be successful.

Yola & Co. as SEAL Team…

• Possible meanings of ‘Hooyah’: Yes!, I understand, I’ll do it or F#@K You! or something else depending on the tone used. You know which one I mean here😉

Yola & Co. failed to swarm…

Seriously…sometimes I’m more amazed than normally. And this time it was not only me who was caught by this surprise of the team...