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Embrace Digital Team Members

Tight-knit, static teams might become looser, with AI copilots taking over specialist jobs in projects and humans roaming more freely across products where they can make meaningful contributions.

Jurgen Appelo 11/21/23 Jurgen Appelo 11/21/23

Hard Agile, Soft Agile, and Not Agile

Labeling every non-pure Agile approach as “waterfall” is not helpful. Big Design Upfront only exists in the first quadrant, which we can indeed label as “Not Agile.”

The unFIX Company 9/17/23 The unFIX Company 9/17/23

Draw your Base(s) with the unFIX Plotter

Do you remember the time when you wanted to draw your first Value Stream Crew? Do you also remember the feeling when reality kicked in, and you’ve realized that they expect you to copy and paste shapes from bloody PowerPoint slides? Well, I remember too… That was the point when I swore to resolve this once and for all, by coming up with a digital tool which can plot my organization to a canvas. And that is when the unFIX Plotter was born.

Jurgen Appelo 4/21/23 Jurgen Appelo 4/21/23

Dependencies Make Us Better

Division of labor introduces dependencies. We must limit the number of contexts we are involved in and willfully divide our labor because dependencies make us better.