The following is a list of all posts on this blog, in date order, with the most recent listed first:
- Cutting the Gordian Knot: Organisational Psychotherapy and Conflict Resolution
- And Now For Something Completely Different…
- The Trenches of Tech: How Non-Software People Sabotage Their Own Success
- Software Development: It’s Not Even Slightly About Tech Skills and Coding Practices
- #NoSoftware: Prioritising Business Flow Over Premature Software Implementation
- Girls Who Don’t Code
- The Divine Dance of Organisational Psychotherapy: A Secular Sacrament for the Modern World
- Beneath the Agile Mirage: Unmasking the Lipstick-Smeared Swindle of Modern Software Development!
- Unveiling the Power of One: Unlocking Your Human Potential
- Another Dark Aspect of Agile: The Erasure of Contributions
- You’ve Got It All Backwards About Coding
- The Secret Sauce Behind Exceptional Development Teams
- When Two Worlds Collide: Developers’ Hidden Fear of Psychology
- The Talent Mirage: How Systems Shape Our Success
- Transitioning Mindsets
- Collaborative Knowledge Work and Management: A Mismatch Made In Hell
- Unleash Your Inner Maverick: Find the Courage to Think Different
- Lazy Thoughts Lead To Lazy Organisations
- Culture Shock: The Surprising Key to Reinventing Your Business
- Insubordination!
- Fellowship As Protest
- “Have you heard of Bill Deming?”
- Deming’s 14 Points – The Proven Path to Excellence in Business
- The Road Not Taken
- A Lament for Agile Software Development
- Scrum Masters Are a Waste of Time and Money
- A Generic Conference Submission On Quintessence
- Unveiling the Surprising Purpose of Anger and the Sustaining Power of Hope in the Quest for a Better World
- A Generic Conference Submission On Organisational Psychotherapy
- DEI: The Game-Changer for Business Culture
- Mastering the Art of Discovering Folks’ Needs
- HR Professionals: Well-Meaning Angels, Incompetent Fools
- The Inconvenient Truth: Upton Sinclair’s Dictum Shatters Your Delusions of Objectivity
- Beyond the Price Tag: The Stone Truth About What Really Attracts Top Talent
- Empowering Communication: A Philosophy for Success
- Who Was Peter Scholtes and What Did He Say About The System?
- Why Coaching Is a Waste of Time: The Importance of Fixing the System
- Preserving Organisational Culture: 6 Strategies to Prevent Culture Change
- Candidate Experience: Ignored by Executives, Crucial for Company Success
- What Is Puzzle Management?
- Psychosocial Challenges in the Workplace: Confronting the Dark Side of Work Culture
- How To Create Powerful Human Experiences
- Emotioneering and Employer Branding
- The Antimatter Principle In The Real World – Rendanheyi
- The Art of Tech Business
- What Is Organisational Psychotherapy?
- The Certainty of Certifications: Why They’re Much More Harmful Than Helpful
- What Would Frank Zappa Say About Business Agility?
- Darkness Reigns: A Tale of Terror and Despair in the Heart of the Night
- The Rat Race and The Greasy Pole
- Cracking the Code: Tackling the UK’s Productivity Puzzle
- Teaching Others: The Ultimate Learning Hack
- Focusing on Individual Well-Being at Work is a Pointless Band-Aid Solution to Systemic Issues
- Hobbled from Day One
- Energise Your Company Culture Initiatives with Client-Centered Therapy Principles
- The Dangers of Projecting Needs onto Others
- The Power of Business Culture Change
- Innovation Revolution: How a Culture Change Can Ignite Breakthroughs
- Trust Trumps Logic
- Unleashing the Courageous and Intelligent: The Art of Filtering Out Non-Essential Tasks in the Workplace
- Enter the Zone of Productivity: Unlocking the Power of Organisational Ketosis
- Treating Employees Like Adults: The Key to a Productive and Engaged Workforce
- Unleash the Quintessence Within: Transform Your Business Culture with the Synergistic Mindset
- From Exasperation to Excellence: How a Project Manager Transformed His Relationships by Changing Himself
- How to Give Public Advice Without Jeopardising Client Ethics: Navigating the Organisational Therapist Paradox
- Intentional Design of Business Culture: Unleashing the Wild Potential!
- Why Culture is the Secret to Business Success
- Embracing a People-First Paradigm Shift
- A Gentler Approach to Culture Change
- Unlocking the Collective Unconscious: Applying Jungian Psychology to Organisational Psychotherapy
- Software Development: Culture Shift is More Vital Than Any Coding Practices
- Bicycle For The Mind, or Iron Maiden?
- Zappa Wisdom: Don’t Fear Doing the Right Thing Wrong, Embrace the Learning Journey
- Unveiling the Magic of Organisational Psychotherapy: How External Support Networks Empower Positive Change
- In Favour of Wokeism at Work
- Is Our Obsession With Labour A Mirage?
- A Journey towards a More Collaborative, Innovative, and Accountable Culture
- Transform Your Business from the Inside Out with Organisational Psychotherapy
- The Secrets of Human Behavior: A Techie’s Guide to People
- Ignoring Culture: Why Senior Managers Miss the Mark and What It Means for Your Business
- Business Culture: A Driving Force for Economic Growth and Social Progress?
- Are You a Victim of Coercion and Control in the Workplace? Nine Alarming Forms of Exploitation You Need to Know About
- Unleashing the Power of Culture: Navigating the Four Distinct Cultures of Business
- Exceptional Products Give Great UX
- Transforming Our View of People: From Lazy and Untrustworthy to Inspired and Empowered!
- The Future is Now: Unleashing the Full Potential of Cutting-Edge Software Development Culture
- Unlocking the Power of Business Culture: How Executives and Senior Managers Can Drive Success
- Trends in Business Culture Change and Organisational Psychotherapy
- Market Research vs Design Research
- Social Media: A Garden of Thorns in a World in Need of Roses
- Steeped in Violence: How Workplace Aggression Contributes to Society’s Problem
- The Great Deception: Truth is, Working For the Man is Unfulfilling and Oppressive
- Get the Inside Scoop: Is Organisational Psychotherapy the Career Move You Need?
- Organisational Psychotherapy – Be a Part of the Next Big Thing in Business!
- Chatbots Perpetuate Pernicious Biases and Flawed Mainstream Beliefs
- Attending to Your Employees’ Needs Gives Your Company a Financial Edge
- Embracing and Meeting People’s Needs Leads to a Thriving Workplace
- Shift Your Workplace Culture with Organisational Psychotherapy
- Hearts Over Diamonds: The Fundamentals of Organisational Psychotherapy
- The Secret Deeds of Employees that Leave Managers Speechless
- Disrupting the Chimera: Unveiling the Truth Behind the Concept of Talent
- Crush the “That’s a Great Idea But…” Blues with These Brainy Tips!
- Growing the Bottom Line: Building Capability
- 1000 Little Acts of Defiance: Disengaged Employees Are Costing You Big Time
- Radiant Responsibility: Companies Shine with Ethical Standards and Radiant Transparency
- Mind Games: Let’s Talk About the Dark Side – Psychopathy in the Workplace
- Own It!: The Organisational Therapy Catechism
- Connecting with Others: The Power of Empathy in Building Strong Relationships
- Elevating Customer Experience: The Key to Unlocking Increased Revenues and Decreased Costs
- Say Goodbye to Dysfunctional Management: Time to Adopt a New Approach
- Hunting for Success: The Predator Management Group Stalks the Workplace Savannah
- Aliens Land on Earth: Are We Ready for First Contact?
- Defying the Chains of the Status Quo: A Journey to Empowerment and Freedom
- Revolutionising Solution Delivery: The Power of Artefact Driven Delivery
- The Impact of Programming Language on Thoughts and Behaviors in the Workplace
- Life’s a Journey Worth Telling: The Inspiring Story of a Message in a Bottle
- Navigating the Ever-Changing Terrain of Needs: The Thrilling Journey Through the Needsscape
- Dance With the Waves of Change For the Rhythm of GROWth is Within Them
- Haikus on Violence and Exploitation
- Embrace the Change, Embrace the Journey: How Improving Our Software Development Approaches Contributes to a Fair and Just Environment for Everyone
- Stepping Away From the Meat-grinder: Joining the Campaign For a Just And Fair World
- Productive Conversations: A Masterclass in Mutuality, Exploration, and Active Listening
- Ackoff’s Insight, A World’s Delight: Embrace Systems Thinking for a Clearer Sight.
- Wealthy Elites’ Veblen Values: Signalling A Lavish Lifestyle of Exclusivity and Indulgence
- Simplification: The Fine Line Between Clarity and Confusion
- Unfettered Capitalism Equals Plutocracy
- Navigating the Top Ten Challenges of Fellowship: Building a Strong, Cohesive Team
- Combatting Bullying in the Tech Industry: A Necessary Step for a Healthy Workplace
- Hire Your Dream Employee in a Day: A Step-by-Step Guide
- Don’t Let a Gift Mask Your Emotions: The Transactional and Trivial Nature of Gift-Giving
- More Terrible Companies Emerge in Today’s Job Market: How to Protect Yourself
- Don’t Believe the Hype of Constant Change
- Breaking the Myopia Mold: How to Expand Your Awareness in Software Development
- Data-Driven Decisions: How Using Evidence Transforms the Way We Do Business
- My Journey to Promote a Culture of Well-being in the Software Industry
- Unleashing Business Potential: How to Shake Off Cultural Shackles and Soar to Success
- Culture Change: A Key Tool for Companies to Achieve More with Fewer People
- Revolutionise Your Development: The Benefits of Ditching Version Control
- Workforce Mental Health Issues: A Silent Killer of Productivity and Profit
- One-on-One Meetings: Focus on Needs to Move From Mediocre to Masterful
- Scenario Planning: The Key to Anticipating and Preparing for Business Surprises
- Addressing and Overcoming Cultural Dysfunction in the Business World
- Tech Solutions vs. Cultural Issues: Can Tech Fix Culture?
- You Won’t Believe What This CEO Did to Turn a Failing Company into a Billion-dollar Success Story!
- Breaking the Chains of Ignorance: Empowering Ourselves to Make a Positive Impact on the World
- Inconvenient Truth Revealed: Can You Really Force Culture Change in Your Organization?
- Elevating the Folks That Matter™: A Key to Justice and Organisational Success
- Euphoria as a Chosen Response to Stressors: Embracing the Power of Positive Thinking and Mindfulness
- Unlocking the Secrets of the Heart: How Emotioneering is Revolutionising the Way We Create New Products
- Seeing People as Trees: How Non-Judgmentalism Promotes Nonviolence
- You Won’t Believe What Happens When You Switch to the ‘Needs’ Approach in Business Strategy!
- Transform Your Company’s Culture: The Benefits of Organisational Psychotherapy
- AI: A Double-Edged Sword in the Quest for New Knowledge
- Discover the Shocking Truth About QA vs QC: One Is a Complete Waste of Time and Money!
- Self-Organisation: Liberating, Not Frustrating, the Key to Relaxed Teamwork and Productivity
- Unleash the Power of Self-Organisation: Empowering Developers to Achieve Greatness
- Blog Resurrected
- Revolutionise Your Software Development: Ditch the Foxes and Embrace a Collaborative Approach
- Management Is The Root of All Evil In Software Development: Agile Experts Speak Out!
- The Agile Community Has Failed Upper Management
- ChatGPT on Bill Deming
- First Steps With ChatGPT
- The Last Post
- Factors of Top Performing Businesses
- #NoPlanning
- Quickie: Who’s Got Your Back?
- Waiting In The Wings
- Getting Upstream
- Quickie: The Death Knell Of Agile
- The Organisational Psychotherapist’s Limerick
- Carpenters
- Quickie: Not A Software Developer
- Gilbfest 2022: Day 2, 3 and Summary
- Quintessential Morons
- Quickie: Mutual Helping
- GilbFest 2022 – Day 1
- Quickie: How To Please A Woman
- Highlight Problems, Avoid Solutions
- Quickie: Why Are Toasters Like Employees?
- Quickie: Noses
- Power To Effect Change
- Quickie: Back on Twitter, Kinda
- Quickie: The Time It Takes
- Quickie: Write Code Like…
- Quickie: Conventional Or Performant?
- Quickie: Muntzing
- Quickie: Love Of Coding
- Quickie: Teams? Fugeddabahtit
- There Are Better Ways
- Quickie: Heads Up, Podcasters!
- Quickie: Organisational Inanities And Insanities
- I Miss Punk
- Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3
- Read Quintessence? – Others Have
- Quickie: Flexible Working
- Quickie: Learners?
- Building Things
- The Future Of Software Delivery
- Quickie: Recruiting and Kahneman
- Quickie: The HR Front
- Quickie: The Effect Of How The Work Works
- Tour: Rightshifting
- Psychology Newbies
- Quickie: Clarity – Who Needs It?
- Quickie: The Right Thing
- Quickie: We’re Entirely Selfish But That’s OK
- Why I Blog
- Quickie: Quantification, Clarity and Relationships
- Quickie: Obdurate Ignorance
- You Don’t Understand Software Delivery
- More On Sea Change
- Organisational Transformation Starts With Individual Transformation
- Quickie: Stop Hiring Managers
- Quickie: Following
- Quickie: Aspirations
- Quickie: Indulgence or Satisfaction
- Quickie: Good Jobs, Great Jobs
- Quickie: Exploring Nonviolence
- Isolation
- Quickie: Unethical Obduracy
- ICYMI: Why Job Interviews Suck
- Quickie: More Valuable Than Platinum
- Tour: Organisational Therapy
- Curious About Organisational Psychotherapy?
- Quickie: Bums On Seats
- Quickie: Indifferent To The Way The Work Works
- Quickie: Exploitation Or Partnership?
- ICYMI: Six FAQs
- Quickie: Working Smarter
- Quickie: Prefixes
- A Conducive System
- The System Is Unethical
- We Need Your Help!
- The #NoSoftware Option
- ICYMI: Righshifting And Quintessence
- Quickie: Wisdom
- Quickie: Tosh, Tosh And More Tosh
- Quickie: How To Convince Somone When Facts Fail
- Quickie: Ironic
- Software Delivery Today
- Celebrate With Us And Receive A Free Copy Of Quintessence!
- ICYMI: Why Does Agile Fail So Often?
- Quickie: Developer Training
- Quickie: Serving Together
- Quickie: Getting In On The Ground Floor
- Quickie: World’s Greatest Oxymoron?
- Quickie: Turkeys, Xmas And Effective Software Delivery
- An Exec’s Guide To Achieving Mission-critical Software Delivery
- Quickie: Pffft
- What Is Quintessence?
- Quickie: Talent Or System?
- Blockers
- Quickie: Management Priorities
- ICYMI: The Organisational Psychotherapy Retrospective
- Quickie: Despair
- Quickie: Relationship Killer
- Quickie: Changes
- Quickie: How To Spot An Expert
- ICYMI: A New Frame
- Quickie: Sticking With The Ineffective
- ICYMI: Workspaces
- Quickie: More On The Purpose of Organisations
- Management, Net-Net
- Quintessential Applications – Come Join Us!
- Quickie: Quintessential Software Delivery
- Quickie: The Definition of Quality
- Quickie: Brief Yourself And Your People On Quintessence
- Quickie: The Costs Of Modifying Behaviours
- We’re NOT Hiring!
- First Step Towards Quintessence
- Alien Tech: What Is It?
- The Author
- The Way The Play Plays
- Quickie: Social Sabotage
- Quickie: Isn’t It Amazing?
- How To Navigate A Think Different Blog Post
- Quickie: Can You Imagine?
- Quickie: What Shapes Folks’ Attitudes To Work?
- Quickie: Competitive Advantage
- The Limits Of Quintessence
- Quickie: Understanding
- Quickie: Aww Do We Have To?
- Why Value Streams?
- The Monopoly of Management
- ICYMI: The Agile Enterprise Is A Thing But Not THE Thing
- Quickie: Agile As Piano Top
- Quickie: Hobgoblins
- Implementing Prod•gnosis
- How To Run A Collaborative Knowledge Work Business
- Quickie: Quintessential Management
- Quintessential Fellows’ Skills
- ICYMI: Second Time Around
- Quickie: Time-binding
- Quickie: Tom Peters’ Collective Wisdom In One A4
- Five Whys
- Quickie: Organisational Structures Are Irrelevant
- My Intolerance Of Shit Has Cost Me Several Million Dollars $$$
- Hungry For Improvement
- Quickie: More Than Just Technical Practices
- How Do You Set Up A Salary Model That Has Everyone’s Approval?
- What’s An Expert To Do?
- Second Time Around
- ICYMI: The Bees’ Knees (and Quadratic Voting)
- Quickie: Whence Knowledge?
- Quickie: The Basis of Most Hiring Decisions
- Quickie: Doing Massively Better
- Quickie: So Much Effort, So Little Results
- Twelve Invitations for Fellowship
- Quickie: Building Community
- Quickie: Value Engineering And #NoSoftware
- Quickie: Scrum Roles, Not Job Titles
- ICYMI: Surely You Can’t Mean That?
- Quickie: You’re Not Interested In How I Am
- From The Beginning
- At Face Value
- Quintessence – Concept vs Book
- Quintessence Worth £Billions
- Spilt Milk And Defect Prevention
- Quintessence For Busy People
- Quickie: The Greatest Tragedy
- Quickie: Solutions Exist
- Quickie: Knowing Everything
- Quickie: Did You Read…?
- ICYMI: One Of My Most Popular Posts – Six FAQs
- Why Is No One Interested In Superior Software Development Approaches?
- Quickie: Inconvenient Truth About Change
- Quickie: Software Development Managers
- Quickie: Why Not Quintessential?
- Quintessential Ways Of Working
- Quickie: Can’t Buy Me Change
- Quickie: Success And The Role Of Collective Organisational Mindset
- Quickie: Morgenisms
- Rightshifting Revisited
- Culture and Strategy
- Quickie: Let’s Keep Our Children Ignorant
- A Key to Culture Change
- Quickie: Tom Peters on Putting People First
- Quickie: How Do You Know You’re A Great Leader?
- Who’s Delusional?
- Quintessence Is The Future
- Quickie: I Can’t Believe
- Quickie: Chief Capitalization Officer
- Quickie: What We’ve Always Known
- Quickie: Highest Honour
- Quickie: Prepared to Listen
- Quickie: Please Don’t Lead Me
- Quickie: Quintessential Policing?
- ICYMI: Q&A with Bob Marshall about the Antimatter Principle
- Risk And Rewards
- ICYMI: Why Agile Fails
- Quickie: Do It Yourself
- Quickie: Done
- Quickie: Expected Benefits
- Why Quintessence?
- Quickie: People or Finance?
- Quintessence – The Long Overdue Upgrade to Agile
- Quickie: Stupid Meta
- If Putin Ran A Software Development Business
- Quickie: Coming Around?
- Quickie: Poor Estimation Is Not Your Problem
- Quickie: Good Luck With Not Shifting Your Culture!
- Culture Shifting
- Quickie: Open Dissent As An Obligation
- Quickie: Mileage?
- Quickie: Coaching for Performance
- Quickie: Tech Innovation??
- Quickie: Why Do People Resist Change?
- Tell Your Friends?
- Quickie: The Nature of Quintessential Change
- Managers Are PONC
- 28 Years Ago
- The New, Radical, Superior Alternative
- Quickie: Engaging With The Future
- Curious?
- Quickie: Everybody Asks
- ICYMI: How To Give Feedback
- It’s About Time
- The New Game In Town
- ICYMI: The ONE Thing
- Local Optima – Updated
- Quickie: Deliveries
- Quickie: Agile Dogfooding
- Quickie: What They Want to Hear
- Quickie: Now More Than Ever
- Quickie: SAFe is all about relationships
- There Are Koalas In My Kitchen
- Quickie: Quantification
- An Open Letter To All Organisations
- Seeds of Failure
- Quickie: Management As A Technology
- The Organisational Psychotherapy Solution for Staff Attrition
- Quickie: Working on the Work?
- Wanna Be More Productive?
- ICYMI: How To Develop Software – And Why Most Organisations Can’t
- Managing Differently
- The Organisational Psychotherapy Solution for Easier Hiring
- Quickie: SAFe
- Quickie: Testing Your Coaching Knowledge
- Quickie: Enterprise Agility
- The Tech Leader as Organisational Therapist
- Repost: Hey Mr. Middle Manager it’s OK to appreciate your people
- Customer Success
- The Purpose of Organisational Psychotherapy
- The Fifth Absolute of Quality
- Quickie: Do You Have A Cause?
- Why Your Dev Team Can Benefit From Organisational Psychotherapy
- What’s So Weird About Organisational Psychotherapy?
- Quickie: Belief in Leadership
- ICYMI: Agile Coach to Organisational Psychotherapist
- What Is Normative Learning?
- ICYMI: The Design Principles of Organisational Psychotherapy
- Repost: Slippery With the Truth
- Narrowing the Focus
- Quickie: Here, Let Me Fix That Up For You
- Quickie: Oh, the Irony
- Quickie: Naïve Realism (Cognitive Bias)
- Repost: Perceiving Is Believing
- Quickie: The Simplest of Tests
- I’m Done
- Quintessential People
- Rightshifting and Quintessence
- Kent Beck on Certificates and Certification
- Reblog: Are We Really Engineers?
- Effectiveness
- Quickie: Agency
- Quickie: Wilful Blindness
- Irksome
- (Self)discipline
- Quickie: David Bohm on Culture
- Quickie: No Need to Help Yourselves?
- ICYMI: Five Reasons Why Agile Coaching is Bullshit
- Quickie: Flying Fucks
- “Please, just attend to my needs”
- Dynamic Work Design from MIT
- Can We Really Trust People To Do The Right Thing?
- Product Development Success
- The Key
- Quickie: Am I the Only One?
- Needs or Wants
- One Simple Question
- Quickie: Acquiescences
- The Great Hiring Debacle Continues
- What If #10 – Somebody Discovered The Solution
- Quickie: Being Right
- Quickie: Displacement Activity
- Quickie: It’s Not the Way That Developers Work That Counts
- Quickie: Prosocial
- Quickie: Cargo Culting
- Quickie: How To Build A Great Product
- The Roots of Rightshifting
- Quickie: Requests?
- The Way Forward
- Quickie: Modern Agile
- What’s Holding Us Back
- ICYMI: Holistic Product Development
- Quickie: Results Count for Naught
- Win Organisational Psychotherapy Book Bundles!
- Quintessential Product Development
- Quickie: Not So Smart
- Live Interviews Suck Donkeys
- ICYMI: Effective Product Development
- Quickie: Managing People
- Quickie: The Right Answers
- Quickie: Inconvenient Truth
- Quickie: Managers’ Biggest Challenge of the Moment
- Compassion Makes For A Better Developer. Period.
- Damp Squib
- Simply Getting Along
- Repost: Why the Most Forward-Thinking Product Teams Work Backwards
- The V8 Question
- More Employable
- ICMYI: Just Burning Toast and Scraping It
- ICYMI: Cease Dependence on Inspections
- Quickie: About You
- We Can All Be Doing So Much Better
- Crosby’s Four Absolutes of Quality Reframed
- Quickie: Build It and They Will Come
- The Quintessential Developer
- Crisis or Not?
- Quickie: Christmas Sentiments
- All Agilists Are Unethical
- Quintessence: Who Matters?
- Quickie: Super Scrum Masters
- Quickie: Coaching As Fixing
- Quickie: Antimatter Principle Check-in
- Quickie: Red Pill or Blue Pill?
- Incompatible
- Quickie: The Joy of Fellowship
- Repost: Toyota vs Ford
- Quickie: Senior Management
- Repost: Agile Is Unfit
- Quickie: Scared?
- The Unemployables
- Golden Insights From the Gemba
- Quickie: How to Manage
- Gifting LeanPub Books
- Quickie: If In Doubt, Bluff It Out
- I Literally Just Told You
- Quintessence: Undiscussables
- Leadership?
- Repost: Why Don’t We Just Call Agile What It Is: Feminist
- Choices
- Quickie: Is Agile Dead?
- Quintessence: The Foreword
- Quickie: Word of The Day – Cosmesis
- That’s Rich
- Quickie: Product Roadmap? Non Grazie
- Quintessence Now Complete!
- Quickie: It’s Not Done Until…
- A Rough Ride
- Quickie: Changing Faith
- Quickie: Teaching
- A Steady Job Makes For Increasing Ignorance
- ICYMI: Surely You Can’t Mean That?
- ICYMI: Engineering Excellence
- Repost: Part 1: Autonomy – Autonomy Support – Autonomy Enabling
- Quickie: Incompetence Correlates with Rank
- Quickie: Surfacing and Reflecting on Assumptions and Beliefs Slows You Down
- Quickie: Mike Rother on Changing Behaviour & Mindset
- Quickie: John Seddon on Failure Demand
- Pipe Dreams
- Quickie: The Land of Morons
- Quickie: Better Managers or No Managers?
- Tarred With the Brush of Excellence
- ICYMI: Cost of Focus Revisited
- Quickie: Truth
- Repost: Thou shalt care for thy customer!
- Quickie: TIL Mob Etymology
- Organisational Psychotherapy Bargain Book Bundle
- ICYMI: What Is A Mindset?
- Quickie: Agile in Essence
- Still Rejecting the Idea of the Collective Psyche?
- More #NoProjects
- A Plea For Connection
- Quickie: As Popular as a Skunk at a Picnic
- Fun Times at Familiar
- Quickie: The Great Resignation
- Quickie: Quintessence Now 80% Complete
- No Adaptation Required
- Quickie: Bossing
- Beyond the Software Teams
- Kevin and Perry Go Software Engineering
- Quickie: #NoSoftwareEngineering
- ICYMI: You’re Not As Effective As You Think
- Quickie: Better just to say…
- Quickie: Suicide
- ICYMI: The Future of Work
- Assumptions and Beliefs
- ICYMI: Pillars
- Quickie: Plato on Management
- The Organisational Psychotherapy Standup
- Quickie: Good Agile
- Just Bloody Ask
- Blueprint For Effectiveness
- Quickie: One Ring
- The Organisational Psychotherapy Retrospective
- ICYMI: Business Doctrine
- Unbelievable
- ICYMI: Why Milk is Thicker than Water
- ICYMI: Producing Software Is Not The Purpose Of Software Development
- ICYMI: Product Development Flow
- ICYMI: Innovation ALWAYS Demands We Change the Rules
- Drop-In Experiment Terminated
- ICYMI: Agile Development Doesn’t Work
- Quickie: Oneself
- Quickie: Prejudices Or Performance?
- Quintessence First Version Now Available
- Quickie: Hugging
- Quickie: Dave
- Opportunity to Contribute to “Quintessence”
- Quickie: Software Engineering Wannabes
- Announcement: New book “Quintessence” In The Works
- Quickie: Why Are Senior Software Engineers So Ignorant?
- ICYMI: All Executives Are Unethical
- Quickie: The Value Of Knowledge
- ICYMI: Attending To The Needs Of Others
- ICYMI: What’s Wrong With Judgment?
- Quickie: The Latest Technology
- ICYMI: The Antimatter Principle
- I Don’t Give a DAMN What You Think
- Quickie: Madness and Community
- ICYMI: On Becoming An Organisational Psychotherapist
- Techniques
- Quickie: Socrates and Questions
- Quickie: New Friends
- Clued or Clueless
- Quickie: Love is not Love
- Sea Change
- Quickie: Going Through the Motions
- Quickie: Thinking, Self and Other
- Quickie: Feedback or Flattery?
- LeanAgileExchange 2021 Conference Report
- Quickie: Word Of The Day – Nocebo
- ICYMI: The Two Antimatter Questions
- Quickie: Setting Salaries and Day Rates
- ICYMI: Barking Up The Wrong Tree
- Quickie: Hell Bent on Product
- Irrelevant
- ICYMI: Eight Ways Customer Value is Killing Your Business
- Quickie: Coding to Other Things Ratio
- Quickie: Samatha, Vipassana and Equanimity
- ICYMI: Make Bad Hires!
- Quickie: Living
- Quickie: Using NVC for Mediation and Dispute Resolution
- Jira, Dogs and Chocolate
- Quickie: Business Agility Conference 2021
- Helping Employees Get Their Needs Met
- Quickie: Antisocial Communities
- Quickie: Speaking at Lean Agile Exchange 2021
- Quickie: Understanding People
- The ONE Thing
- The Inklings
- ICYMI: Six FAQs
- Quickie: Changing One’s Beliefs
- Visual Walkthrough Explaining Rightshifting And The Marshall Model
- Quickie: Lies Pay
- Quickie: Faux DevOps
- Quickie: Imagining
- Addressing Issues
- Quickie: Organisational Psychotherapy Definitions
- Quickie: Hearts over Diamonds Sales
- Organisational Psychotherapy and Mobbing
- ICYMI: What If #5 – Continuous Improvement is Useless
- Quickie: Thinking Outside the Box
- Quickie: Ackoff on God
- Quickie: Borked
- Organisational Psychotherapy For the Curious
- Quickie: John Seddon on Efficiency vs Effectiveness
- Quickie: Hitch’s Principle
- Quickie: Ackoff Explains Analytic vs Synergistic Thinking
- Quickie: A Blast From the Past
- ICYMI: 17 Ways To Piss Off New Hires Before They Even Start
- Quickie: Wants and Needs
- Quickie: Prejudice Trumps Mission
- Quickie: $100 Ideas
- ICYMI: The Marshall Plan
- Quickie: Are You Ready?
- Organisational Psychotherapy on Slack
- Quickie: Learned Helplessness Update
- The Nine Principles of Organisational Psychotherapy – 2nd Ed.
- Gallup on the Challenges of Being a Manager
- Quickie: Superchickens
- Quickie: Tom Peters on Hiring
- Memeology: Update
- How to Save the Industry and Get the Buzz Back!
- Adherence, Self-Efficacy and the Person of the Therapist
- Quickie: Trust
- Not Ready To Hear
- Traders or Traitors
- Quickie: Would You Be Willing To…?
- ICYMI: Changing Behaviours
- Quickie: As A Whole
- Quickie: Messes and Wicked Problems
- Tidbit for Today: Ackoff’s Little Book of F-Laws
- Quickie: Building Things Right or Building the Right Thing?
- ICYMI: So You Really Want to be an Agile Developer?
- Quickie: Leadership is the Dark Servant
- ICYMI: The Starting of Familiar
- Quickie: Planting Seeds
- Quickie: Doing the Best For Your Customers
- Quickie: Contributing to Life
- ICYMI: A Beginner’s Guide to Personal Integrity
- Quickie: Poll (Senior Tech Hires)
- Quickie: Fiction
- Gimme A Break, Here
- Reverse Antimatter Principle
- ICYMI: How to Be a Great Software Development Manager
- Quickie: Measuring Progress on Culture Change
- Quickie: Nonviolence by Gandhi
- Quickie: The Software Industry
- Quickie: Competency and Delivery
- Quickie: Second Weekly Drop-in Day and Time
- Quickie: Love and Compassion
- Quickie: Slave to the Monkey
- Quickie: VUCA Nonsense
- Quickie: Ignaz
- Quickie: Change – Embrace or Avoid?
- Quickie: End of Agile
- Agile Expert, Deprecated
- Quickie: Common Sense
- Quickie: Buying Into Agile
- Quickie: Wikipedia Donation
- Quickie: Execrable Online Meetups
- Quickie: Powerful Questions
- Quickie: Junk
- Memeology Early Feedback
- Quickie: Deming and Psychology
- Quickie: Junior Developers
- Quickie: Not Interested
- We’re Still Working in the Dark Ages
- Quickie: Counts for Naught
- Quickie: Managers, Leaders
- Quickie: Mission Type Tactics In Name Only
- Quickie: Enough or More?
- Quickie: Changing Thinking
- Quickie: Transformation Programmes
- Where Are All the Helpees?
- The Great Mexican Standoff
- Quickie: John Seddon on Twitter
- Nobody Needs Learning
- Quickie: Facebook Harm
- Quickie: Programming as Socialising
- Quickie: Gandhi on the Antimatter Principle
- Zeitgeist
- Quickie: Special Forces
- Quickie: Answers
- Quickie: Theatre
- Quickie: Oligarchs and Jingoists
- Quickie: Show and Tell
- Psychological Safety – Oh! The Irony
- Quickie: Is Scrum For Life?
- Quickie: Concern for Man
- Quickie: Holodeck Therapy
- Quickie: Bookish
- Quickie: Category Error
- Quickie: Estimates
- Conventional
- Scrum – Where’s the Evidence?
- Quickie: The Western Way of Managing
- Quickie: ScrumsAlliance
- Quickie: Be Careful What You Wish For
- Yūgen
- Quickie: Life Safety
- Quickie: Teaching Truths
- Quickie: The Changing Face of Startups
- Fourth Think Different Weekly Tuesday Drop-in
- Quickie: Donella Meadows’ 12 Points to Intervene in a System
- Quickie: Which Assumption is the Flawed One?
- Quickie: People First
- Quickie: The Goal
- Quickie: Tosh Count
- Quickie: What’s the Constraint?
- How Undiscussable are your Undiscussables?
- Quickie: Ozymandias
- Quickie: Labor Day
- Quickie: What If #9
- Quickie: Freiheit
- Quickie: Job Applications are the Biggest Recruiting Scam
- Quickie: Talent
- Industrialised Learned Helplessness
- Quickie: Memeology Testimonials
- How Much Do You Care?
- Quickie: Psych
- Quickie: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- Quickie: Team Topologies
- Quickie: Look Outside the Box
- Quickie: Innovation
- Interlock
- Quickie: Sabotaging Developers
- Quickie: Memeology now 96% complete
- Third Think Different Weekly Tuesday Drop-in
- Quickie: Vengeance
- Quickie: Indifference
- Quickie: The Great Resignation
- Quickie: Environments for the Brain
- New Teams
- How Come Hardly Anything Ever Gets Better?
- Quickie: Defect Prevention is Cost Effective
- Quickie: Who’s Right?
- Quickie: Just Call Me Ignaz
- Quickie: Quality and Culture
- Quickie: If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?
- Quickie: The Purpose of Organisations
- Lucky Thirteen
- Quickie: Software Deniers
- Quickie: Teams
- Quickie: Nonviolence
- Quickie: Evidence-based Practice
- Scope of Ignorance
- Who Needs the Status Quo?
- Quickie: Dearest Beliefs
- Quickie: Peeve of the Week
- Quickie: One-way Interviews
- Quickie: New Policy
- Quickie: Have You Tried It?
- Quickie: Carry On
- Quickie: Shortage of Talent
- Every Freaking Time
- Quickie: Go Your Own Way
- Second Think Different Weekly Tuesday Drop-in
- Quickie: Your Real Job
- Quickie: Constant State of Ship
- Quickie: Promises, Promises
- Quickie: Antimatter Principle Modified
- Quickie: The Software Crisis Continues
- Quickie: Keep On Keeping On
- Quickie: ZeeDee Invites Discussing Folks’ Needs
- Kids Are Our Future
- Quickie: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust
- Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
- Quickie: Purity
- Quickie: Science is Anarchy
- The Science of Memes
- Quickie: HR Weenies
- Quickie: Educating People
- Quickie: Phil Crosby’s Four Absolutes of Quality
- Let’s be Honest
- Quickie: Personal Kanban
- Quickie: Schein on Culture
- Quickie: Womack on the Unacceptability of Lean
- Quickie: Help
- How To Predictably Deliver Great Software
- First Think Different Weekly Tuesday Drop-in
- Quickie: Jobsworth?
- Memeology For Developers
- Quickie: Pay for Performance?
- The Rightshifting Cause
- First Principles
- Quickie: Why Agile is Irrelevant
- Multiple Discovery
- If Coaches Were More Like Therapists
- Great Expectations
- Quickie: SWEBOK
- Quickie: Do Nothing That Is Not Play
- Quickie: Kids or Adults
- Automate All the Things!
- Quickie: Rate for the Job
- Doing Things Properly
- Quickie: Edsger Dijkstra Excoriating Software Engineering
- Quickie: Two Hard Things
- Think Different Weekly Drop-in
- Memeology Special Offer
- Quickie: Improving training?
- Quickie: Bill Noonan on Productive Change
- Quickie: Education is All Wrong
- A Cook’s Tour
- Quickie: Relevancy
- What is “A Decent Conversation”?
- Quickie: Where can I go for a decent conversation?
- Quickie: Post-Agile
- Quickie: Compassion
- Stand and Deliver
- Quickie: Local Optima
- Quickie: Obduracy
- Quickies
- I Have A Dream
- Who’s Who
- Deming: “Cease Dependence on Inspection”
- A Quick Guide to Getting the Best Out of the Think Different Blog
- Antisocial Media
- Agilists: They Just Want Your Money
- Cthulhu-Shaped People
- Kent Beck’s Paint Drip People
- Lost Business
- Two Suits, No Hoots
- Changing Culture
- Awesomely Powerful New Ideas
- 5x Productivity
- Culture Shift
- The Naming of Familiar
- That’s a Great Idea But…
- Memeology – Halfway Mark
- Designing the Memeology Cover
- The Path to Organisational Psychotherapy
- Software Development at Scale
- Memeology First Look
- Tumbleweed
- Ambitious
- Oblivious
- An Overabundance of Planning
- Organisational Self-Therapy
- Artefact Driven Delivery
- Management Monstrosities
- Grendels
- Six FAQs Explored
- Cost of Focus Revisited
- Simples
- Structurally Broken
- Current Kindle Library
- Some Familiar Experiences
- Five Reasons Why Agile Coaching is Bullshit
- Behind the Curtain
- Why We’re All So Angry All The Time
- Better Antimatter Customers
- Three Questions
- The Evolution Of An Idea
- Reflective Questions
- Discretionary Effort
- Your REAL Job
- Getting Started as an Organisational Psychotherapist
- What is a Customer?
- OP 101
- Beyond Command and Control – A Book Review
- #NoSoftware
- Why Reason When Faith is So Much More Comfortable?
- What Orgs Want
- My Work
- Damn Outcomes!
- The Aspiration Gap
- Obduracy
- The Big Shift
- Gratitude
- Something’s Gotta Give
- Hearts over Diamonds Preface
- Red Lines
- Standard Work and Collaboration
- Antimatter Principle Elaborated
- Little Islands
- The Edge of Intolerable
- Congruence
- The Design Principles of Organisational Psychotherapy
- A Star is Born
- Management Must Manage
- Random Walks
- Digital Transformation
- Effectiveness
- Ending Therapy
- The Relevance of Giants – 2. O Sensei (Morihei Ueshiba)
- The Relevance of Giants – 1. Deming
- 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 Crap
- 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.