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Remote Working & Meetings – A compilation of tips and advice

Are you, as many others looking, for advice and tips for remote working and meetings?

You’re not alone. At KRY / LIVI, me and Anders Ivarsson, compiled a list of tips and advice on how to make the most of remote collaboration and working from home. We suspect many are looking for similar advice and…

Make OKRs and Forecasts come alive!

Rigid detailed long-term plans, where progress is tracked based on consumed budgets, are in agile organizations quickly becoming a fading nostalgic memory of the past.

They are replaced by forecasts and non-static roadmaps. Gather regularly in front of these visualizations and you will enable learning, sharing and trigger important conversations, resolve dependencies and invite…

Efficient, effective and inclusive decision-making – A bold statement, a book and a video

The speed to decision and time to review and evaluate the impact will dictate your whole organization’s ability to quickly respond, learn, adapt and improve. With this blog I hope to expand your toolbox and inspire you to experiment with a more varied approach to decision-making.

Health checks for Teams and Leadership

In this blog post I want to share a powerful tool, the Leadership Health Check. It will help you become stronger as a management team and reveal improvement opportunities for how you, as a team of active servant leaders, better can enable the agile teams you support.

Bootstrapping a Working Agreement for the Agile Team

I suspect that running a session with a team to help them bootstrap a Working Agreement, is the single most common workshop I’ve been facilitating the last couple of years.

A Working Agreement captures the expectations we have on each other within the team when we collaborate and communicate. This blog describes my facilitation approach.

4+3+2+1 Team Success Factors

“4+3+2+1 Team Success Factors” is a model that captures and describes what you can do to help make your team become strong and successful.

How I wrote a book publicly online

This passion for post-its and whiteboards finally manifested itself in the form of a book; “Toolbox for the Agile Coach: Visualization Examples – How great teams visualize their work”. Not only am I proud and happy of the final result, I’m also very excited about the way it came about. This blog is about how…

The importance of size and proximity

Process is expensive. Bigger teams, working from a distance, part time team members, and many specialists are all factors that lead to a more elaborate process. This might be obvious, but the more companies we get to know, the more we experience that this is something being ignored.

How to peel off Post-its

Having trouble with curled Post-its that won’t stick to the wall? It’s very simply. Grab the top Post-it with a firm grip, and pull it straight down.

The Sprint Burndown is dead, long live Confidence Smileys

Confidence Smileys provide a simple, honest, transparent and overview-friendly tool for the team to visualize how confident a team is that they will be able to finish each User Story by the end of the sprint.