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Want Innovation? Be a Follower and a Borrower

Over the last month, I’ve seen a series of events related to innovation that given me new levels of insight into how creative breakthroughs happen. This is the first of three posts explaining the events, and the mind-altering, myth-breaking, insights that have crystalized the way I look at innovation and execution. A full four weeks [...]

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November 25th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Open mind, Projects in general | Leave a comment

A Full Week of Leadership Activities at PMI

I just finished a week of activities at the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting, here in Washington DC. It was an amazing experience that reinforced to me the amazing value of volunteering at PMI. Leadership Masters Class is “High Class” My first 3 days were spent participating in the PMI Leadership Institute Masters Class program. This [...]

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October 10th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Open mind, Projects in general | Leave a comment
 
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A Few Thoughts on the Economics of Software Product Development

Some of you probably already get this… some of you might even disagree… but unless you are building software as a hobby… chances are, you building software for money. In other words, someone is paying you to write software for them. Why would someone pay you money to show up and write software? They are [...]

Podcast with IT Kanban

Kevin Ryan at IT Kanban just released a podcast with me. Check it out
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Mattias

Lean from the Trenches – Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban

I’ve published another book! This one’s called “Lean from the Trenches“. It is about how we scaled a 60-person project by combing techniques from Kanban, Scrum, and XP. I chose this title because it really it illustrates how to put Lean principles into practice in a software project, especially the notion of an end-to-end Kanban read more »

Coming to Brazil

Hi Brazil! I’m happy to say that I’ll be visiting you in a few weeks. I’ll be involved in two public events together with Samuel Crescêncio: Feb 10: Public seminar about Lean & Agile (in Florianopolis). More info coming soon. Feb 13-14:  Certified ScrumMaster course in São Paulo. The course will be in English, but Samuel read more »

AgileExams.com Controversy Resolved…Sort Of

Well it turns out the “controversy” about AgileExams turned out to be the biggest of misunderstandings. The Testimonials Were Authentic: Several of AgileExams customers contacted me and revealed the root cause of this confusion is the fussiness of PMI.org’s online … Continue reading →