Qualification Program, Shiftup Don’t Care Too Much About Boxes We should not care too much about boxes. When it comes to business modeling tools such as the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas, people sometimes end up in endless… September 10, 2019 By Jurgen Appelo
Qualification Program, Shiftup Your Work Is a Vortex, Not a Merry-go-round People sometimes ask me, “What’s your process? How do you write your books? How do you create your presentations? How do you design your workshops?” And then I might say, “I… September 5, 2019 By Jurgen Appelo
Shiftup Leadership from a Canoe In a span of just a few weeks, I made some significant changes to my businesses. I pulled the plug on one project; I doubled down my focus on another; I… August 28, 2019 By Jurgen Appelo
Shiftup Shiftup Is Not a Framework The Scrum framework, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), the .NET framework, the React framework… The world of software development is full of frameworks. But we don’t need a framework for everything…. August 19, 2019 By Jurgen Appelo
Qualification Program, Shiftup Continuous Innovation Over Business Agility Twenty managers were looking at me expectantly. One of them had just told me about the many ways in which their organization was trying to transform itself. The company’s increasingly demanding… May 10, 2019 By Jurgen Appelo
Shiftup, Workshops A Real Pivot… Happy Melly Group In my book Startup, Scaleup, Screwup, I write about pivoting, patching, and persevering. Right now, Happy Melly is pivoting. (Happy Melly is 100% owner of the Shiftup workshops.) Our first attempt… May 1, 2019 By Jurgen Appelo