The book provides a recipe to start working agile in 7 steps.
First think carefully about what you want to achieve for whom and why. A good vision. Good point! Because in agile working this step is often overlooked, while it is essential.
Choose your priorities and define your smallest viable version of your product.
Assemble a team.
Choose a collaboration rhythm.
Break the work into smaller chunks.
Learn a concrete result and collect feedback on it.
Finally, how do you become agile?
The last chapter is valuable. It explains to the reader how tough his/her own agile transformation can be. That it is about an inner change and about acting differently in practice. No more emailing and certainly no cc-ing. But also no more judging before you have listened to someone properly. Creating a safe environment. Trusting the craftsmanship of another and embracing the puzzle principle: you are never smarter on your own than a group of people together. Always asking yourself out loud: "Am I making the customer happy with this?" Daring to get feedback before you are finished, always daring to experiment and question things. Daring to make mistakes. That is being agile.
A recommendation?
The big advantage of the books in the 60 minutes switzerland whatsapp numberseries is of course that they are quick to read. And if you are mainly interested in scrum, the book is certainly strong enough in terms of content. If you expect a broader spectrum of agile methods, this book does not provide enough of that.
Some things are repeated too often for my taste, others are elaborated on enormously and unfortunately a number of elements are mentioned too briefly to really get an understanding of them. But the last chapter and the good explanation of the agile manifesto make up for a lot. This way you not only learn the technique, but also the 'gut feeling' of agile working.
April Fools' Day, Frog in Your Butt! This year, the well-known joke day coincides with Easter, so many Easter breakfasts will start with a "Hey, your shoelace is untied!" joke at the table. April Fools' jokes are also in high demand on social media. Data from OBI4wan shows that last year, almost thirty thousand messages appeared on social media channels with hashtags such as #1april #aprilfools or #aprilfoolsday.
But how do you produce a good April Fool's Day hook for your brand or organization? What are the requirements for an April Fool's Day hook to be liked? We spoke with Thijs Waardenburg of The Network is the Message. In collaboration with OBI4wan and the Hogeschool Utrecht, among others, he is researching the power of hooks and knows exactly what a good hook should meet and wrote a book about the power of good hooks on social media .