The following is a list of all posts on this blog, in date order, with the most recent listed first:
- Inventing Agile
- Cognitive Function
- Cost of Focus
- Team Building For High Performance
- The Needsscape
- Solutions Demand Problems
- Some Alien Tropes
- Alien Tech Alien Tropes
- Excolat in Pace
- What is Expertise?
- What is “Working Software”?
- Please Don’t Irk Me with Fast Arguments
- Stainless Steel Rats
- The Folks That Matter™
- The Antimatter Opening Question
- Agile Coach to Organisational Psychotherapist
- Fundamentals of Organisational Psychotherapy
- Most Models Are Wrong
- The Marshall Plan
- Status Quo or Change?
- Difficult Conversations
- Wants, Needs
- A Hiding To Nothing
- The Future of Coding Environments
- Not Obviously Wrong
- Product Owners Suck
- Testbash Dublin and Organisational Psychotherapy
- Testbash Dublin
- Do Nothing That Is Not Play
- Change is a Waste of Time
- Beyond the Pale
- World Class? Really?
- Means and Ends
- Antimatter Evo
- Ten Reasons You Don’t Need Organisational Psychotherapy
- Three Things That Do Change Thinking
- Six FAQs – X or Y?
- Holistic Solutions for Product Development Businesses
- Obstacles to True Consensus – Summary
- Obstacles to True Consensus – Solutioneering
- Obstacles to True Consensus – Extrapolating From the Past
- Obstacles to True Consensus – The Smart Conservative
- Obstacles to True Consensus – The Dominant Impatient Visionary
- Organisational Psychotherapy and the Bottom Line
- Pillars
- Innovation ALWAYS Demands We Change the Rules
- Reliability and Effectiveness
- Strategies, Effective and Ineffective
- Antimatter Hiring
- Coaching, Scrum Mastering, and Expertise
- The One Perfect Way to Develop Software
- No Hashtags
- I Make No Promises
- The Advice Process – Flaws and Fixes
- Learn Through Delivering
- Tasks – or Deliverables
- Organisational Psychotherapy In the Field
- How to Communicate Your Needs At Work
- The Heart of Organisational Psychotherapy
- Nonjudgmental Feedback
- The Future Of Software-Intensive Product Development
- What’s The One Question A Scrum Master Must Ask?
- We’re All In This Together
- Constraints On Effective Product Development
- The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work
- Surely You Can’t Mean That?
- The Concept Of Value
- The Twelfth Principle
- The Healthful Alternative To Management
- The Organisational Psychotherapy Approach To Agile Coaching
- Seven Research-Based Principles for Making Organisations Work
- I Lied
- Ten Tips for Organisational Therapists
- Taking Wings
- An Intention Announced
- Why The Future of Humanity Depends On Organisational Psychotherapy
- Discombobulated
- Making Contact
- A Deliberate Approach
- An Invitation To Contribute And Share
- I Have Nothing Left To Say
- A Second Open Letter to the Project Management Community
- A Difficult Message To Hear
- The Inner Space Race
- Unilateralism – And What To Do About It
- After Agile
- Rightshifting In A Nutshell
- What If #8 – Agile Never Happened
- Collaborative Change
- Helping Folks Find Their Own Answers
- What If #7 – No Work
- What If #6 – Agile Nirvana
- My Definition Of Agile
- On Becoming An Organisational Psychotherapist
- The Antimatter Model
- Wahnsinn ist das. Wahnsinn. Heller Wahnsinn!
- I’ve Done It So It Works
- The Cold Wet Nose Of Reality
- The Agile Enterprise Is A Thing But Not THE Thing
- NVC In The Workplace
- Nine Aspects Of Top Developers
- Metaflow
- The Shift
- Meeting Folks’ Needs At Scale
- The Care And Training of Your PET TEAM
- What If #5 – Continuous Improvement Is Useless
- Do Something
- Antimatter Emotioneering
- What If #4 – No Answers
- Antimatter And Deming’s 95/5
- A Rose By Any Other Name
- What If #3 – No Telling
- The Antimatter Principle – The Anti-Kanban For Almost Two Decades Already
- Are You Just Another Adjunct Of A Unimatrix?
- The Antimatter Transformation Model
- Open
- What If #2 – No Process
- Those Bastards Need To Get A Grip
- Plausible
- Why Me?
- The First Step
- Business Development
- Aliens
- I Love To Play With Organisations
- Rightshifting the HiveMind
- What If #1 – No Management
- Unlocking Human Potential
- Head, Heart And Soul
- The Two Antimatter Questions
- What is Nonviolence?
- Codes of Conduct
- How To Connect With Folks’ Needs
- Tech Folks Don’t Grok People Things
- Cultural Fit
- Role Models
- Some Homos
- Catch-22
- The Antimatter Pattern – Update
- Parlour Tricks
- We Know Not What We Do
- Emergence
- A Map To The Future
- How Not To Write A Scrum Master Job Description
- Framing the Antimatter Principle
- The Bees’ Knees
- I Am Your Therapist
- I Am Not Your Therapist
- Microservices In Embedded Systems
- What’s In It For Me?
- How to Develop Software – And Why Most Organisations Can’t
- Agile Competency Is A Crock
- Out Of House FlowChain
- As Simple As Possible
- Stuck
- Agile Consultancies Aren’t
- Dead Wood
- Twelve Signs Of A Great Agile Evangelist
- Ten Things to Stop Doing To Yourself
- No One Needs Effectiveness
- The Nature of the Problem
- NeedsFlow
- Attending To The Needs Of Others
- The Nine Obsessions of the Extraordinary Software Development Manager
- What’s A Good Job?
- The Antimatter Proposition
- Who I Am
- Antimatter And The Marshall Model
- Changing Ourselves
- Antimatter Stories
- Antimatter Recruiting
- Raising The Bar
- Managers Don’t Hate Agile
- A New Hope
- Why Familiar Was Europe’s First 100% Agile Software House
- What Is Agile Software Development?
- Drunk On Power
- A Bit About Organisational Effectiveness
- The Antimatter Why
- The Antimatter Manifesto
- Any Questions?
- We Can’t Talk About It
- Capability
- Twenty Years a Scrum Master
- Ten Benefits of Flow
- The Nature of the Challenge
- The Software Development Manager Role Is An Oxymoron
- You’d Have To Be Crazy
- The Specialism Meme
- Act Different
- Theories of Motivation
- More NoTesting
- Listening
- No Testing
- Death On My Mind
- Let The Team Make The Difference
- Producing Software Is Not The Purpose Of Software Development
- The Scrum Master Role Is a Huge Waste of Human Potential
- Workspaces
- Pay Me To Play
- Fixing Product Development
- Needs And Fulfilment
- This Rotten Edifice
- Are You Stuck?
- No Need To Learn
- Why Rightshift?
- Why Does Agile Fail?
- Changing Behaviours
- Changing Others?
- Product Development 101
- A Prayer For Effective Discussions
- Dancing With Entropy
- Them And Us
- Amanuensarian
- Write Your Own – Flow
- The Universal Scrum Master Failure
- Under Pressure
- Are You Sitting Comfortably?
- Quandary
- Joy in Work
- Here Comes The Plumber
- What An Effective Group Workshop Looks Like
- You’re Not As Effective As You Think
- A Digital Trail
- TDR – Test Driven Relationships
- Expectations
- Why Aren’t We Rich Yet?
- The Busy Managers’ Guide To Winning Big
- Subtle Signs It May Be Time To Call In The Therapist
- Holding The Space
- Compensation
- It’s All An Act
- I Don’t Want To Respect You
- Why Corporates Can’t Change
- Shifting Mindset – The ROI Is There
- The Antimatter Pattern
- No Projects
- Five Ways Agile Governance Can Help You Have More Fun
- What’s A Manager To Do?
- Six FAQs
- A Faster Workstation
- Antimatter Workshops
- Seven Changes To Improve Flow In Your Software Development Process
- Antimatter Standup
- Principles WTF
- 17 Ways To Piss Off New Hires Before They Even Start
- Insane
- Antimatter Story
- Tea Lady
- Minimum Viable Post
- Attending to Needs is All We Need
- GDS Design Principles – Improved
- I Pledge
- Organisational Transitions
- Mañana
- The Business Case For Organisational Psychotherapy
- Local Optima
- Want to be Great?
- Connections
- If At First…
- A Note of Caution
- The Balanced Team
- Using The Marshall Model
- Things We Could Be Doing
- The Words We Use
- I Didn’t Sign Up For All This People Shit
- The Future of Work
- Flow, Shmo
- Eight Ways Customer Value is Killing Your Business
- Can We Imagine?
- Objectives, Proclaimed vs Practised
- Can You Use A Scrum Master?
- Code Refactoring
- Core Practices for the Antimatter Principle
- Vital Conversations
- Dukkha
- What Are Values?
- The Antimatter Decision Filter
- Why Talking About Feelings Can Help
- I Don’t Want Agile Back
- We Have The Technology…
- Unbelievable!
- Engineering Excellence
- The Longer View
- Wolf Magic
- Different Worlds, Different Roads
- A Vocabulary for the Antimatter Principle
- Monkey Magic
- It’s Mutual
- Finding For ƒ
- Change, Kotter and Antimatter
- Our Mutual Friends
- What’s Wrong With Judgment?
- Community Matters
- The World As One
- An Open Letter To My Audience
- The People vs. System Conundrum
- Breadcrumbz
- For The Rational Folks
- Looking After Each Other
- Pointless
- What Are Needs?
- Who Needs Kanbans?
- Who Needs Retrospectives?
- The Tyranny of Method
- One Principle, One Agendum
- Silos and Tribes
- Poka-Yoking The Method
- A Finger Pointing at the Moon
- Roots
- A New Frame
- The Antimatter Principle – the Metaphor
- The Antimatter Principle
- Can’t Be Bothered
- Health Warning
- Bravery
- From Here to Eternity
- Playing with Other People’s Money
- Why Improvement
- The Management Violence Inherent In The Golden Rule
- Octavian and the Seven Sisters (Working Notes)
- Rightshifting and the Marshall Model – Class 101
- Coaching and Deming
- Per Diem
- Business Benefits
- Does Your Boss Care About You?
- Are You Sitting Comfortably?
- How Can We Do This Better?
- Forecasts, Estimates and Cost Accounting
- No More Stupid Punts
- A System of Continuous Improvement
- Chasing the Dragon
- Gaining Discipline
- Homogeneous Mindsets
- The Bailer’s Creed
- What is a Humane Relationship?
- Misery Loves Company
- The Power of Humane Relationships
- Bail or Bale?
- WIBNI
- Hyper-joyful
- The Same Old Way
- Slow Change
- Learning to Let Go
- Product Aikido
- Optionality – The Double-Edged Sword
- The Ethics of Change
- A Simple Business Case For Treating People Differently
- Three Books
- The Agile Path to Quality
- Manage As If You Meant It
- Intervention on People Issues is a Red Herring
- Stakeholder, defined
- Effective Product Development
- Baggage
- Nonviolent Inspiration
- Ambitions
- Product Development Flow
- Introducing Rightshifting
- What’s Wrong with the Project Approach?
- Nonviolent Management
- Nonviolent Meetings
- Business Doctrine
- Nonviolent Change
- Taking Vocabulary to Task
- Nonviolent Employment
- Bioteams
- Nonviolent Project Management
- Beware Eumemics
- Approaching Change
- What is Violence?
- Wax On Jerk Off
- Nonviolent Conferencing
- Overcapable
- Damning with Fulsome Praise
- The Ties that Bind
- Who Watches the Watchmen?
- Fellows of the Human Spirit
- How Likely is It?
- Memes of the Four Memeplexes
- Peter Picked a Peck of Profound Purpose
- The Next Revolution
- Developer Chops
- Agile Tour Riga 2012 Report
- Better Conferences – Revisited
- OrgCogDiss
- What Shall We Do with the Project Managers?
- Seven Reasons Why Every Business Needs a Therapist
- French Letters
- A Foolish Consistency
- The Organisation’s Therapy Experience
- The Organisational Therapist’s Experience
- Individual vs Organisational Psychotherapy
- Why Milk is Thicker than Water
- My Organisational Psychotherapy Toolkit
- Quackery, Snake Oil and Local Fixes
- Wolves or Shepherds
- All-time Top Posts
- Why Job Interviews Suck
- Business Technology Blog with the Telegraph
- Are You Brave Enough?
- Dreaming
- How to Map a Memeplex
- A Beginner’s Guide to Personal Integrity
- Faith
- Nonviolent Programming
- High Voltage
- Wanna See me Juggle?
- How to Be a Great Software Development Manager
- The Way of the Harmonious Spirit
- Progress with Nonviolent Communication
- Productivity
- Business 42.0
- Quantification vs Measurement
- Evidence, Vested Interests and Wishful Thinking
- Lean Agile Scotland 2012 – A Review
- How to Give Feedback
- Discipline
- Respect For People
- Just Two Questions
- Two Masters
- Just One Fix
- Medication, Meditation and other Analogies
- Hypotheses, Falsifiability and the Limits of First-World Science
- Conway’s Law Revisited
- Gateway Drug to Synergism
- If You Were a Car…
- Sticky Change
- There is no Organization, but…
- Planning to Flourish
- The CI Vaccine
- On the Radar
- Dumb Fraud
- Null-A
- Creating Sane Organisations
- Debate to the Death
- Speaking at Lean Agile Scotland 2012
- Why Does Agile Work?
- An Open Letter to the Project Management Community
- Barking Up the Wrong Tree
- Grassed Up
- Balkanisation
- Dare to Disagree
- Zen and the Art of Organisational Enlightenment
- Power, Hierarchies and other Dysfunctions
- Prod•gnosis in a Nutshell
- Babble
- The Advantage – A Book Review
- Leadership or Fellowship
- Stigma
- Vexation
- The Shrink is IN
- What is a Mindset?
- Perspectives on Rightshifting
- The Inductive Deductive Schism
- Make Bad Hires!
- Uncovering the Learning Habits of Leaders and Managers
- The Face of the Mind
- The Wedge and the Cheese
- Ten Lessons for World Class
- ScrumMaster or TaskMaster?
- Ackoff Contrasts Efficiency with Effectiveness
- Bugs Are a Signal
- Cognitive Easement
- Fellowship
- The Games People Play
- Wonga
- Sardines
- Skinny Dipping
- Promotion Commotion
- What Veiled Magic Hath the Question?
- Retrospectives – Wronger and Righter
- Focus
- So You Really Want to be an Agile Developer?
- Shifting and Drifting – Some Measures
- Swimming Against the Tide
- Mea Culpa
- What is Value?
- The Nine Principles of Organisational Psychotherapy
- Values Purpose and Meaning
- What are Non-Obvious Systemic Constraints?
- Fixation
- Wikipedia is Wonderful
- The Gravy Train Rolls On
- How to Communicate With Your Customers
- What Are You Worth?
- Value and Effectiveness
- We’re All Wasting Our Time
- Lay Off the Managers
- All Executives are Unethical
- Emotioneering at the BCS
- Pearls Before Swine
- The Familiar Credo
- This is Not a Blog Post
- Agile Development Doesn’t Work
- Kinky Agile Sex
- How to Spot a Lemon Consultant
- Better Customers
- Agile Blogging
- Better Business
- Better Conferences
- This Shitty Agile Compremise
- Why Directors Should Give a Damn About Culture
- Society and the Analytic Mindset
- On the Morality of Dissent
- Time For the Agile Old Guard to Retire
- The Agile Train is Heading for Radicalsville
- Agile Coaching is Evil
- Agile! Huuuh. What is it Good For?
- What Makes a Mindset?
- Agile – Circa 1997
- Project Charters and Social Contracts
- Mutual Learning
- What Makes a Great Software Developer
- Misconceptions of the Analytic Mindset
- Commercial or Progressive?
- Nice and Respectful
- Radical Leadership (redefined)
- Starting Out As I Mean To Go On
- Transitioning From Amplify.com Blog
- Coaching and Peer-instruction More Effective Than Teaching
- Clausewitz’s Concept of Friktion – Bungay’s diagram
- Software Kitchen Nightmares
- The Nature of Time-boxing
- PERMA and the Positive Business
- A Round-up of European Lean/Agile Conferences
- Applying Silent Grouping to Sprint Retrospectives
- Managing Costs Causes Costs to Rise
- The Carrying-Cost of Code: Taking Lean Seriously
- 10 Reasons CEOs Unwittingly Sabotage Innovation
- Microbes Swap Genes to Communicate; We Have the Option to Swap MEMEs to Communicate
- Critical Agile Memes
- Second London Rightshifting Unconference Report #LRU2011
- Rightshifting Recruitment
- Another Definition of Rightshifting
- Psychology of Change in Organisations
- Neuroscience of Rightshifting
- The Improvement ROI Sawtooth
- The Origins of the Marshall Model
- The Rightshifting Ethos
- Rightshifting Transitions (Part 2)
- Rightshifting Transitions (Part 3)
- Rightshifting Transitions (Part 1)
- The Many Roles in Software Projects
- Contextualising FlowChain
- A Great Example of the Synergistic Mindset
- There’s a Lot of it About (Bullshit)
- Employees’ Self-confidence – A Cinderella of Organisational Effectiveness
- Traditional vs “New” Management Thinking
- The Constant Tension Between Rightshift and Left-drift
- The Term “Analytic Mindset” Defined
- We’re All Human (Even CEOs)
- Does the Project Manager Have a Future in the World of Agile?
- In-band vs Out-of-band Change in Technology Businesses
- To Deliver the Project at Hand, or Improved Project-delivering Capability for the Future?
- Agile/Lean Principles Simply Will Not Scale
- #lru2010 Conference Report
- Would You Rather Not Know?
- Rightshifting and the Senior Management Pitch
- Delivering Software is Easy
- The State of Agile
- The Developer’s Job
- Agile. Necessary but not Sufficient.
- Bain on Business / IT Alignment
- The Teflon Consultants
- The Starting of Familiar
- Tom Gilb Laments the “10 Wasted Years of Agile”
- What Next for the Agile Community?
- The Nature of the Rightshifting Challenge
- Transcript of Email to @papachrismatts Explaining #Rightshifting
- Why Agile is No More (or Less) Than a Skunkworks
- Just Burning Toast and Scraping It
- Agile: Doing the Wrong Thing Righter
- “Coach as expert” vs “Coach as facilitator”
- Career Paths for Technical Folks
- Do Managers Need Deep Technical Skills?
- Commitment to Sprint Delivery vs Time-boxing
- A Personal Charter
- Pitching Agile – Some Lessons Learned
- My Forlorn Love Letter to Agile
- An Agile Koan – If You Meet Buddha on the Road, Kill Him
You are Erik! I just read the book The Phoenix Project which convinced me to take my years of IT Service Management experience and try to do something with it. I knew I wanted to be Erik, shift the way people think and use technology, move the costs, drive change, let the Service Desk be more important because they are etc. Thanks for showing me that I am not alone.