Agile

Short term risk-averse management Vs. long term risk and winning it all management

There are two common strategies for investment that also apply for management (well management is an investment :–) ). You can focus on short-term profits while ignoring the next unknown macro event that can take away all the small gains that you collected over the years. The alternative is to accept small losses and plan for the big unplanned […]

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Variety, complexity and emergent properties can tell a lot about your organization – Part 1

This post is using several definitions, so let me start with clarifying them. Complex Vs. Complexity – both of them are built from many components, and it takes time to understand them. The complex systems though are composed of parts that interact one with each other. Due to the interaction property, complex systems are tough

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The most agile organization

The most agile (able to move quickly and easily) organization is a single person organization! As organizations have more people and groups of people the harder it is to get agility. Yet, people have to join together to reach common goals due to what science calls emergent properties. Emergent Properties (a property which a collection

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Follow the Agile Manifesto and the Twelve principles, not strict frameworks!

While listening to another talk about the importance of some agile framework and the need to follow all the best practices (rules) introduced by this framework, I realized that the Agile manifesto is like the bible and all the religious enhancements that came after are like the religious rules and ceremonies that came after. The

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