Check out my new essay about The Great Mr. Taylor, creator of management the social technology, and how I paid the man a visit, in Philadelphia, a couple of years ago. nielspflaeging.substack.com/p/frederick-...

Read my new essay on Substack: "Frederick W. Taylor: A visit", in which I re-evaluate the roots of organizing and management, while on a personal trip to Philadelphia. nielspflaeging.substack.com

Join me in Podgorica, Montenegro, in October, at "IT Spot 2026". I will deliver the opening keynote and a short "Masterclass" on the first day of this conference! itspot.me

There's a way to organize software development without the "events" and wasteful rituals, without the estimates, the planning, the story points, the overruns, the Sprints, the constant reprioritizing. We call it time orientation. betacodex.org/white-papers... It's about time.

The word "leader" is similar to the word "Beetlejuice." Only that it's three time more powerful. Say it loud once (in earnest) and it will immediately summon the chaotic, mischievous ghost of command-and-control to the living world. The same happens with the word "leading".

Here we go: A new episode of the BetaCodex Network podcast "News from the Beta World" is live! @soundslikeryan.bsky.social and I took "a closer look at transformational practice in 2026", with regards to Beta transformations and adoption of the TOSD system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry6r...

Together with developer, software architect and qomenius CTO Andreas Schlegel, I will offer this one-day workshop on time orientation and Time-Oriented Software Development (TOSD). The date: Wiesbaden, on 17 November. Just 11 tickets! Info & registration: www.redforty2.com/product-page...

New event in German! The 29th edition of my Almost-Free BetaCodex Workout Day is coming on 16 November. Location: Wiesbaden. Just 11 tickets are available, so sign up now. Info & registration: www.redforty2.com/product-page...

Subscribe to the Red42 web magazine "Transforming organizations for good. Fast". It's free of charge, the texts and videos are generated by hand and brain (not AI), and I apply a "no bullshit" rule to my work - as I have always done. nielspflaeging.substack.com Check it out and subscribe!

I am happy to see that my new article on "Time as a force of organizing" is being so well-received. One colleague even called this article the "best introduction to time orientation so far", which I invite you to not to believe: Better check it out for yourself! nielspflaeging.substack.com

Our relationship with time is messed up – we are suffering from the consequences, as individuals, teams, organizations and societies. In this new article, I talk about our estrangement from temporality in the realm of work, and 2 opposed conceptions of time we adhere to. nielspflaeging.substack.com

I took a little vacation from publishing stuff on my Substack recently, but I will be back on Monday with a new article about time orientation and the concept of “Flow Time”! For the time being, check out nielspflaeging.substack.com for my most recent articles and its articles archive!

New episode! @soundslikeryan.bsky.social and I had fun last night talking to two highly accomplished academics and authors - Ron Purser & Allen Bluedorn - about their research done in the 2000s, around "Flow Time". Watch the News from the Beta World conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Pg...

When I arrived at my Finnish client's office today, I saw that this sign had changed over night. As you can see, the company is now definitely en route to adopting a system of Time-Oriented Software Development (TOSD)! 😊 Visit the TOSD web page at www.timeoriented.dev

If you haven't signed up to our free web magazine "News from the Beta World" on Substack yet, then now's a good time! You will receive newsletters about all new posts and will always stay up to date! Subscribe free of charge here: betacodexnetwork.substack.com

It's good to be back in Helsinki – this time for a client engagement around Time-Oriented Software Development (TOSD). If you also want to liberate your software developers from the shackles of centralized steering and not-so-agile frameworks, here's the place to turn to: www.timeoriented.dev

Read the 8th and final part of our series of articles about TOSD: How to get going with a TOSD system? betacodexnetwork.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

Subscribe free of charge to our web magazine on Substack, where a good part of my new articles gets published! Once you subscribe, you get new articles and videos into your mailbox, too. nielspflaeging.substack.com

For a matter of fact, Sprints were always a very bad idea. Sprints should never have existed. When those "iterations" and "cadences" became the backbone of Agile, the agile movement was doomed. nielspflaeging.substack.com/p/sprints-we... Get rid of Sprints. Get to flow.

Get your copy of the new book "What would Ernst Weichselbaum do?" Get it now! It's the most brilliant approach to organizing & management you will have seen in a while! www.redforty2.com/product-page... Now available everywhere, in print and E-book formats!

When they say "predictive", what they actually mean is "speculative". Stop speculation at work. Go time-oriented. nielspflaeging.substack.com/p/from-toyot...

Tired of performance systems that suck? Of cumbersome targets, incentives, indicators and reporting? There is an alternative. It's called "Relative Targets". betacodex.org/white-papers...

Keen on reinventing software development, beyond good use of AI? TOSD Associates wanted! www.timeoriented.dev

Read the new article I co-wrote with Andreas Schlegel, about Time-Oriented Software Development (TOSD) and how to bring flow, focus and rhythm to product development. This article is based on the "Patterns of Time-Oriented Software Development" research. betacodexnetwork.substack.com/p/lists-not-...

Read the new article by Andreas Schlegel and myself about "achieving steady work rhythm" in software development (and beyond)! This article is based on the "Patterns of Time-Oriented Software Development" research I conducted for the BetaCodex Network. Enjoy! betacodexnetwork.substack.com

Read this week's article of mine about White Space and time orientation at work! nielspflaeging.substack.com/p/flow-work-...

We published the 27th BetaCodex Network research paper this week: "Patterns of Time-Oriented Software Development". Read it. Share it generously. Invite people, teams and organizations to make TOSD their own! As always, download is free of charge & free of registration. betacodex.org/white-papers

Check out the most popular articles on the Red42 web magazine – and subscribe free of charge! nielspflaeging.substack.com/archive?sort...

I published a brand new article today about the topic of White Space and time orientation that should be interesting to people in every kind of business, and any kind of organization! nielspflaeging.substack.com/p/flow-work-... Enjoy!

What if software development had a heartbeat? Read the new article on the BetaCodex Network Substack, about TOSD in practice: betacodexnetwork.substack.com/p/what-if-so...