Michael Mahlberg

Finding the Balance Between Freedom & Direction 🎯

At #SAGconf, @mmahlberg.bsky.social shows how enabling constraints, clear leadership signals, and honest delegation can turn team stress into motivation and meaningful collaboration. 💡

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Now we've given them every freedom and they still don’t do what we want - Michael Mahlberg YouTube video by Agile meets Architecture

The recording of @mmahlberg.bsky.social 's talk on modern leadership is live! Discover how "acts of leadership" and enabling constraints create the perfect balance between freedom and direction, reducing stress while inspiring motivation.
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At Agile meets Architecture 2025, @mmahlberg.bsky.social dives into modern leadership, showing how enabling constraints and "acts of leadership" can reduce stress, foster autonomy, and inspire motivation in today’s organizations.

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Now we've given them every freedom and they still don’t do what we want – A cheat-sheet for all kinds of modern leaders, agilists or architects alike –

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And I miss those days - gave a talk on the original CI idea a couple of years back. According to a show of hands no-one in the audience published on a daily basis and no-one integrated on a less-than-four-our cadence - Feedback afterwards: But that was all so basic. 😢

... and integration meant to live?

Right now I think trunk based development comes closest to the way I perceived (and we used) the CI ideas from XP back in '99/'01

"advice targeted at the forest. Have developers write tests. ... Build incrementally. Refactor. ... Pair. ...

Those techniques don’t have the intended effect in a desert. ... Worse, it convinces programmers that forest techniques don’t work, can’t work, and are never worth doing." 💜

me... ;-)

I was very happy for that chance encounter too – always a big pleasure to meet @ufried.bsky.social and have these deep and inspiring discussions.

What exactly does the «minimum» in MVP stand for? agile-aspects.michaelmahlberg.com/2023/11/what...

(I’m not yet used to posting here as well…)

Ernst gemeinte Frage. Und wenn Posts belohnt würden hätte ich noch einen Grund mehr, mehr zu posten…

Klar, gerne. Wofür bekommt man den denn? 500 posts? 2 Monate Mitgliedschaft? Kann ich was tun um das schneller passieren zu lassen?

Leider sehr nachvollziehbar. :-(