The Agile Compass Matthias Orgler Hello Reader, provocative opinion: AI will increase the demand for skilled software engineers.Why I think that? It's in the article below 👇 Thanks for supporting my work by being a paying subscriber of The Agile Compass! 🙏 The AI Developer Apocalypse Might Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Software Engineering There’s a lot of anxiety in the air. AI is coming for developers. Coding assistants are getting smarter by the month. Junior roles are vanishing....
9 days ago • 4 min read
The Agile Compass Matthias Orgler Enjoying cherry blossom in Tokyo – and collecting agile and leadership stories for you. Hello Reader, last month I visited business partners in Tokyo and Osaka. This Japan trip – my first to the country ever – inspired several agile and leadership articles I want to share with you. Two decades as an agile practitioner and coach, and I can still get excited and learn! These stories help see agile and leadership practices from a new perspective.Here is a first...
15 days ago • 5 min read
The Agile Compass Matthias Orgler Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.– Lauren Bacall Hello Reader, predicting the future is hard – especially today. Yet it's crucial for a company's survival. How can we prepare our teams, our products, our business models for the markets of tomorrow? That's what today's article is about. Predicting the Future: Lessons from the Video Streaming Industry and Beyond In 2004, during my Silicon Valley days, my mission...
22 days ago • 5 min read
The Agile Compass Matthias Orgler Hello Reader, do you know a low performer? I wanna challenge the notion of "low performer" as a label for a person. Because it's not only utterly false, but it also prevents us from solving the real performance problems. If we want more articles about high performance, read these: Want High-Performing Teams? Focus on Motivation That Lasts 💪 How to motivate people: Autonomy, mastery & purpose Boost productivity: Manage your energy, not your time! ⚡️ How...
29 days ago • 4 min read
The Agile Compass Matthias Orgler Sy Liebergot at NASA (source: NASA) Hello Reader, do you know the story of Apollo 13? Well, you might not know about the role distributed leadership played in saving the astronaut's lives… You might also wanna check out last week's article on Story Points, Velocity, and the Outdated View of Human Nature Now to Apollo 13: How Apollo 13 Proved the Power of Distributed Leadership April 13, 1970 Apollo 13 is gliding silently toward the moon when, suddenly, the...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
The Agile Compass Matthias Orgler Hello Reader, why is velocity still so abused and misunderstood? That‘s what today‘s article is about: Story Points, Velocity, and the Outdated View of Human Nature “How many story points do you complete per sprint?” “What’s your team’s velocity?” “Why isn’t it improving?” If you’ve heard these questions before, you know they’re usually well-intentioned – but built on a dangerous misunderstanding: the idea that velocity is a performance metric. It’s not. As...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
The Agile Compass Matthias Orgler Hello Reader, Why do games in coaching work so well? I‘ve seen huge impact and gotten amazing feedback when using more games in my trainings, workshops and coaching sessions. So do many of my alumni and colleagues. Do you already make use of games? Let‘s look at what makes games (aka simulations aka exercises) so effective. Thanks for supporting my work by being a paying subscriber of The Agile Compass! 🙏 One Game. One Lesson. A Lifetime of Impact. Why Games...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
The Agile Compass Matthias Orgler Hello Reader, most of us have heard this: "Our work doesn't fit a fixed sprint!". Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches get this objection regularly from engineering teams. This week's article is about how to reply. And if you want to learn how to slice requirements so they fit any sprint length, check out my new workshop: $99.00 How to Slice Requirements for Agile Teams After this workshop you can: Make any requirement fit even a 1 week sprint Apply 10 splitting...
2 months ago • 4 min read
The Agile Compass Matthias Orgler Hello Reader, this is a premium article only for paying subscribers. It goes into depth on the topic of intrinsic motivation: what it is, why it's important, and how to achieve it. Enjoy! Thanks for supporting my work by being a paying subscriber of The Agile Compass! 🙏 Fostering Intrinsic Motivation in Agile Teams: A Path to Authentic Engagement and Success In our agile profession, where adaptability and speed are often hailed as the keystones of success,...
2 months ago • 19 min read