September 28, 2023

The Evolving Role of Agile Coaches: Practical Examples and Tools for Shifting from Agile Compliance to True Transformation

In the fast-paced world of Agile coaching, the role of Agile Coaches has metamorphosed. In this article, we'll delve into the evolving responsibilities of Agile Coaches, offering concrete examples and tools to navigate the shift from Agile compliance to genuine transformation.
September 22, 2023

Mastering Agile Coaching: Strategies to Overcome Antipatterns

In organizations, Agile Coaches are often faced with overcoming antipatterns in Agile. Read here Strategies to Overcome Antipatterns.
September 15, 2023

Avoiding Agile Coaching Pitfalls: Common Antipatterns Unveiled

Avoiding Agile Coaching Pitfalls, such as a focus on compliance to frameworks, is one of the keys for sustainable change. Read here more on the Agile Coaching Pitfalls.
August 14, 2023

Enhancing Communication and Collaboration within Agile Teams

Effective communication and collaboration are the cornerstones of successful Agile teams. In today’s rapidly evolving software development landscape, where, for example, architectures like independent Microservices can […]
November 29, 2022

The Future of Agile

Agile is everywhere and as a result, individuals and organizations are increasingly fatigue about this term. Read in our newest article, why “Agile” and it’s related frameworks might be irrelevant.
November 22, 2022

10 Agile Misconceptions

Both Agile and the role of Agile Coaches are often misunderstood. This article describes 10 of the most common misconceptions of Agile we are constantly confronted with.
November 14, 2022

Role of Agile Coach in organization

The role of Agile Coaches in organizations is often misunderstood - not always the mistake of the organization. Read in our article, why Agile Coaches can be crucial for your organization.
November 7, 2022

Agile at Risk

Agile is at risk: Frameworks, which prescribe the way of working, have claimed Agile as their own. Let's claim back the Agile Manifesto.
August 26, 2021

How organizational culture influence your project’s success

Organizational Culture is one of the biggest factors that play an important role in Organization alignment and enablement. But what is it exactly, and how does it influence our behavior as well as the whole project? This short article will answer those questions.
August 19, 2021

Culture is an iceberg

When we talk about organizational culture, we often talk only about visible factors because they are easy to influence, but there are invisible factors, too. Read, in this article, which ones they are and why they are important.
May 28, 2021

Knowledge Management as a tool for transparency – Part 3: 6 simple principles you can build on to foster a great culture

Learn the 6 principles of knowledge management to apply in your organization for increased transparency and alignment.
May 25, 2021

Knowledge Management as a tool for transparency – Part 2: How to foster a culture of transparency through Knowledge Management

Learn in this article, how to create a culture of transparency i your organization to ensure, that your knowledge won't get lost.
May 20, 2019

Leadership Trait “Empathy” – Start with Moving Motivators

If you have followed some of our blogs, you already know, that for us empathy is a leadership skill. Employees see, that their leaders genuinely care, […]
March 21, 2019

Overwhelmed Managers – part 3: Swamped by Digitization & Innovation

As discussed, we at semdi believe, that today’s Managers are overwhelmed because of 3 different swamps. We talked about different complexity areas, different motivations, but also […]
February 15, 2019

Overwhelmed Managers – part 1: Making sense of today’s world

In the last article I described how managers are overwhelmed with the situation in today’s complex environment and described three different swamps and how this image […]
October 31, 2017

The success of an adaptive organisation lies in it’s organisational structures

The premise of Agile frameworks is promising. “We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it”. I love to […]
October 25, 2016

Why teams should estimate their work

When we worked with Software teams in Sprint Plannings, we realised, that they usually followed good practices to implement tools to make the planning efficient. But […]