Category Archives: agile

Parachute Game

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Martien van Steenbergen

We started the morning with a parachute game. Start at ground level, hold it over your head and do three steps forward. Next, sit on it. There it is, a parachute mushroom.

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Writer’s Workshop

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Martien van Steenbergen

ScrumPLoP Writer’s Workshop. A very sketchy note of: Hillside Group » How to Hold a Writer’s Workshop; and Writer’s Workshop Cheat Sheet (PDF). Just let me know if you would like a sketch that’s a bit more polished, and I’ll … Continue reading →

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Decentrale organisaties zijn onverslaanbaar

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Wat hebben Geronimo, Skype, Wikipedia, Open Coffee, Al Qaida en Youtube met elkaar gemeen? Het zijn allemaal gedecentraliseerde netwerken. Rod Beckstrom en Ori Brafman gebruiken deze voorbeelden om een nieuw management systeem te modelleren. De toekomst van de organisatie is … Continue reading →

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Lenige planning

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Gisteren zaten Gaston, Stanley en ik bij elkaar en hadden we het op een gegeven moment over planning. Wow! Dat opende een ‘can of worms’ zeg. Blijkt dat de term ‘planning’ behoorlijk verschillende betekenissen voor iedereen heeft, en menig mens … Continue reading →

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Briljante Programmeurs Netwerk

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Sanne Roemen en Daan Kortenbach doen een oproep om een coöp van briljante programmeurs op te zetten. Wat mij betreft breiden ze dat uit naar briljante ontwerpers, designers, architecten en projectleiders. En dan lekker agile aan de slag. Als we … Continue reading →

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Cambrian House, Home of Crowdsourcing

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Harry van der Velde tipped me on Cambrian House some time ago. What a wonderful holacratic way of turning thoughts into things. Community-owned—so “Dee Hock” in its chaorganization. So co-creative. While preparing a proposal for Andarr this morning, I decided … Continue reading →

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Innovation and Agility

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Jim Highsmith on Innovation and Agility: I have always maintained that one characteristic of a good agile leader is the ability to balance: up-front planning with on-going planning, early architecture with evolutionary architecture, and innovation with efficiency. It is a … Continue reading →

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Continuous Partial Attention

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

My son Martijn recently started working for Q42. One of his new colleagues pointed him to Continuous Partial Attention on whether or not to unplug from the ever increasing flow of interruptions of the grid and focus on getting some … Continue reading →

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